Software Engineer 2
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$ 115000 - 135000
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Software Engineer 2Job Description
About Your Role:
Dotdash Meredith is looking for a forwardthinking Engineer focused on API and services development with demonstrated technical excellence for an exciting opportunity to design and scale missioncritical pieces of the next generation of our publishing. You will work in a collaborative Agile environment to build highperformance backend services to support and add new features to our new brandfocused mobile application.
In this role you will leverage your fullstack engineering expertise primarily using Node and Javascript/TypeScript. The role offers opportunities for professional growth and experience with challenges of scale as we explore new ways of getting our content to viewers.
Inoffice Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York Des Moines Birmingham Los Angeles Chicago or Seattle the expectation is to work from the office three times per month. The team is currently centered in NYC so applicants there are preferred.
About Your Contributions:
Independently design and develop new backend services or features that seamlessly bridge our frontend mobile applications and inhouse contentmanagement systems.
Collaborate effectively with the frontend team to define API endpoints data structures and authentication requirements.
Contribute to the optimization of existing backend services by identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing improvements.
Participate actively in code reviews and pair programming sessions providing constructive feedback and driving continuous improvement.
About You:
You have a love for technology and problemsolving and a strong desire to deliver quality software as quickly as possible. You have
3 years of proven experience developing and maintaining serverside applications.
Strong technical proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and and experience using them to build and maintain RESTful APIs and other backend services ideally within a microservices architecture.
Experience managing data storage ideally with Firestore or equivalent NoSQL databases including maintaining performance and data consistency via optimized queries indexes transactions and other best practices for managing large datasets. The ideal candidate would also have experience working with BigQuery.
Comfortable deploying services in cloud platforms like AWS and GCP and monitoring the infrastructure health using tools like Prometheus Grafana or native cloud provider solutions; able to set up CI/CD pipelines to automate testing building and deployment processes as needed.
Familiar with the security challenges inherent in mobile app development and ready to implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g. JWT OAuth Device Attestation) for our APIs and take whatever other steps necessary to protect backend services from common web vulnerabilities such as XSS SQL injection and DDoS attacks.
Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes) as well as familiarity with serverless architectures and functionsasaservice platforms.
It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .
The Company participates in the federal EVerify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the EVerify program please click here: Range
Salary: $115000 $135000The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Merediths total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short and longterm incentives.In additionDotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits including medical dental vision prescription drug coverage unlimited paid time off (PTO) adoption or surrogate assistance donation matching tuition reimbursement basic life insurance basic accidental death & dismemberment supplemental life insurance supplemental accident insurance commuter benefits short term and long term disability health savings and flexible spending accounts family care benefits a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program 1012 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and nonbirthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance accident critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage life and disability insurance.
#CORP#Employment Type
Full-Time
