Staff Content Software Engineer

• Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions
• With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers and users
• From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints
• Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies
• As a Staff Software Engineer in the Content Services technology team, you will work in a fast paced environment with a number of technologies including: Gen AI, AWS, service mesh, Kafka and data lake storage as well as real-time news systems, automation, web scraping and data extraction
• You will take part in a transformational effort to modernize our real-time news systems and other content systems that feed and enrich our many products including Newswires, Factiva and the Wall Street Journal
• This position reports to: Senior Manager, Engineering
• Engage in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle to design, develop, test and deploy high quality solutions using the Agile/Scrum methodology and working with technologies including: AWS Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Istio, Envoy, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, GenAI, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, JSON, XML, MySQL or other Relational Database
• Perform investigation, analysis, evaluation and prototyping to determine project feasibility
• Partner collaboratively and effectively with stakeholders to manage scope, milestones, deliverables and timelines on technical projects
• Provide feedback, guidance, recommendations and training to management and other stakeholders
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends, technologies, tools and systems

Benefits

• 20 weeks of parental leave
• 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave
• Up to 4 weeks of remote work per year
• 1 paid volunteer day annually
• $700 caregiver reimbursement
• Headspace emotional wellness membership
• ClassPass fitness and wellness membership
• Financial rewards for well-being activities

• The ideal candidate will be creative, flexible to adapt to a changing environment, eager to learn new skills and adept at critical thinking
• Experience implementing RESTful APIs following industry standards
• 5+ years as a Java developer in a Linux environment
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology in a geographically and culturally diverse team
• Experience in writing secure code and resolving security vulnerabilities in existing code
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred
• 7+ years of experience
• 5+years building high-performance backend systems as a full stack software engineer
• Experience creating and deploying microservices in a service mesh environment
• Experience implementing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting and supporting multi-region, multi-environment systems with CI/CD, high availability, and disaster recovery