Software Engineer developing customer-facing products and enhancing user experience for CNN's Digital Commerce team. Collaborating with engineering teams and practicing innovative software development principles.
Responsibilities
Work closely with the engineering and platforms team to build and enhance commerce products such as the CNN Underscored.
Exhibit good system engineering skills (e.g., common industry database design and practices, application architectures, operating systems concepts, networking, etc.) in addition to skills in application development.
Design and implement complex features that enhance the user experience.
Identify requirements for the improvement of the publishing platform to assist editors.
Recommend new features that will help CNN Underscored expand and improve the end user experience.
Partner across multiple teams to build and improve engineering projects that cultivate CNN’s audience growth.
Develop and champion improved processes for insight collection and dissemination across core engineering tools and products.
Support short-term content planning processes with editorial and programming teams.
Mentor team members and cultivate cooperation and implement best practices regarding engineering workflows.
Passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write.
Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information.
Display engineering ability to critically evaluate code as a method of learning and knows when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts.
Participate in on-call responsibilities as needed alongside the commerce engineering team.
Requirements
B.S./M.S. or higher in Computer Science, Software or other Engineering or related field required.
5-10 years of software development experience, with a strong focus on application development.
5+ years of Node.JS, Express, React experience at least.
Proficient in modern JavaScript, Typescript, and Python using AWS services, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
Expert level when working with modern engineering technologies such as Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Snowflake and Git.
Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology.
Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms.
A passion to grow professionally and continue developing along an individual contributor path.
Previous involvement in building medium to large-scale, "mission critical", "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business and technical, or operational functions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to simplify and describe complex problems to non-engineering peers.
Experience working in e-commerce, affiliate platforms, and consumer media.
Experience working on Kanban/Scrum teams and the tools used for project management.
Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum or Kanban).
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