We’d love you to join our thriving MediaNews Group product development team whose mission is to create people-centric, software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. 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, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts content, people and performance first. You will be joining not only a team, but also a pragmatic way of working – we are agile, lean, and minimum viable process oriented as we transform from a build to scale mindset through four core principles: be transparent; be disciplined; be bold; be together. Join
us!

We are excited to hire a Software Engineer to join our Advertising Lifecycle team! We build applications and services to support our Digital marketing teams. Our goals are to save them time and to make it easy for them to present clear options to their clients. This is part of the larger Product & Technology team which prioritizes learning, continuous improvement, and flexibility, allowing for many personal and professional growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

The Software Engineer’s main responsibility is to implement and maintain Node.js web applications and services to support our Digital Marketing teams.

This includes the following tasks:

• 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

Required Experience

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering, completion of an intense software engineering curriculum (bootcamp) or 2+ years of relevant software development experience

Required skills

• Asynchronous programming

• Object-oriented programming

• Consuming or writing web APIs like REST, SOAP, or GraphQL, 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

Desired skills or hands-on experience

• JavaScript (ES6+) programming

• Unit and Integration testing

• MVC design pattern

• Hexagonal or Clean architectural patterns

• TypeScript

• TypeORM

• React

• Express (Node.js framework)

• AWS

• Salesforce

• WordPres

• Working Relationships include QA, Product owner, Scrum master, Technology director