Hearst Autos Looking for Software Engineer II at New York, NY Full Time

Why Hearst Autos

Hearst Autos is a subsidiary of Hearst Magazines and brings together engaging content, unrivaled data and insights, innovative consumer products, and comprehensive marketing solutions to serve automotive manufacturers, dealers, enthusiasts, and buyers. By combining the entire portfolio of Hearst brands, including Car and Driver and Road & Track, with the extended reach of In-Market partners, Hearst Autos reaches 163 million people every month as the nation’s most influential

automotive media company.

Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and O the Oprah Magazine. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone. But we’re more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels – print, digital, video and social – with sophisticated content creation, distribution and data capabilities. We create, package and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing media for the 21st century.

Your Impact:

Hearst Autos is looking for an engineer to build scalable and resilient backend systems. Our technology, tools, services and solutions touch hundreds of millions of lives by driving experiences, and growing businesses. Our team of engineers, product managers, data scientists and designers build a suite of products to lead the way in shaping and managing the future of publishing.

You’ll join a diverse, supportive community of engineers who are creating a modern content technology stack – built from the ground up – to give our clients and users, tools that enable them to tell amazing stories and run their businesses more effectively. We’re using modern web technologies to do this, like Python, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and React. We’re building an open, service-oriented platform driven by APIs, and believe in crafting simple, elegant solutions to complex technological and product problems. Our platform is built on AWS and Kubernetes with deployments automated through Slack bots.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build highly scalable and resilient full stack applications that are micro-services based on the backend and React powered on the frontend
• Tackle difficult scalability challenges across the stack
• Conduct design and code reviews, write maintainable and well documented code
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development

Qualifications

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. Master’s degree a plus
• 3+ years experience and a track record in building and scaling production-grade applications that are resilient, and performant
• 3+ years experience working with JavaScript, Node.js, and one or more modern frontend frameworks. React preferred
• Deep knowledge of data stores and schema design – both NoSQL and RDBMS – Redis, PostgreSQL or MongoDB is a plus
• Experience working within a container ecosystem (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of object-oriented or functional programming. Python preferred
• Experience with AWS, especially EC2, RDS and SQS
• Experience with traditional agile methodology

Preferred Experience:

• A thorough understanding of distributed systems with an eye to catch performance bottlenecks from system metrics
• AngularJS experience
• Experience working with designers through Figma
• Worked on a new app or website from inception to launch

The base salary for this role is between $129,000 to $140,000 annually. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.