MediaNews Group Looking for Software Engineer, Web at Pueblo-Cañon City Area Full Time

We’d love you to join our growing product and technology team whose mission is to create people-centric software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big! Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, operations, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts product, people and performance first. You will be a key member of our team that is focused on building reliable, trusted applications that engage with customers across the many US media markets in our portfolio, such as the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, the Boulder Daily Camera and

the St. Paul Pioneer Press, as well as our Adtaxi digital marketing agency. Check out our local news portfolio to see if we operate in a market near you.

As part of the broader team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes continuous learning, autonomous decision making, agility, and pragmatism. Join us to kick-start your career at a company that offers substantial personal and professional growth opportunities via a hands-on learning approach and a flexible working style.

What You Will Do

• The Software Engineer’s main responsibility is to implement and maintain Node.js web applications and services to support our Digital Marketing teams
• Working with team to design new features and services
• Writing code and documentation in a way that can be easily maintained by other engineers
• Testing code to be sure the end users will get the product experience they expect
• Participating in code reviews to help engineers discover bugs and to share best practices
• Defining and refining stories in an Agile team so team shares common understanding of requirements
• Participating in weekly technical support rotation to troubleshoot production issues to ensure end-user satisfaction
• Experimenting with new tools and techniques to help team remain impactful with the least amount of effort

What You Will Bring

• Asynchronous programming & Object-oriented programming
• Consuming or writing web APIs like REST, SOAP, or gRPC, etc.
• Reading and writing SQL queries
• Methodical testing of business logic
• Working with view technologies like React, Vue.js, etc.
• Working with version control systems like Git, Subversion, etc.
• Unit and Integration testing
• JavaScript (ES6+) programming
• Jest Unit and integration testing
• Refactoring legacy projects
• MVC design pattern
• Hexagonal or Clean architectural patterns
• TypeScript
• Working with ORMs like MikroORM, Entity Framework, Sequelize, etc.
• Docker
• Cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Postgresql
• React
• ExpressJS
• Lit and Web Components Library experience
• BS in Computer Science/Engineering
• Completion of an intense software engineering curriculum (bootcamp)
• 2+ years of relevant software development experience

Who We Are

MediaNews Group is a leader in local news, committed to informing, inspiring and engaging readers with award-winning journalism in a diverse array of trusted publications that are integral parts of the communities they serve. MediaNews Group publishes 68 daily and more than 300 weekly publications throughout the United States, including the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Boston Herald. In print and online, our publications reach a combined audience of more than 60 million every month. We are proud of our long history of community service, providing essential news to our readers for more than 170 years. We believe that a free press is fundamental to a healthy democracy and we are committed to building a sustainable future for our journalism.

The Product & Technology team’s mission is to create people-centric digital technology that empower our local news and partners by putting people, product, and performance first. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big! We build product experiences not only for our local news publications across the entire digital portfolio, now including our affiliate company Tribune Publishing, but also for the Adtaxi digital marketing agency as well. As part of our team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes and rewards continuous learning, decentralized decision making, expertise, agility, and pragmatism. Join us to kick-start your career at a company and team that offer substantial personal and professional growth opportunities via a hands-on learning approach and a flexible working style, founded on scaled agile principles and autonomous agile teams. Learn more at www.medianewsgroup.com.

The annual salary range is $85,000 – $100,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. This role is eligible for a bonus based on performance. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

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