Senior Software Engineer, 1

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Job Description

Remote- In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)

Dotdash Meredith is looking for a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join our Search and Recommendations team. As part of the Search and Recommendations team, you'll be working on widely used components that help users find ways to consume content on our sites. This includes using technologies such as Elasticsearch and Vector Database to leverage the power of AI, build capabilities to recommend related articles, and much more!

As a Senior Software Engineer 1, you will collaborate with product owners, project managers, and software engineers to create service applications and contribute to the technical roadmap.

About Your Contributions:

You understand and will confidently address the challenges associated with delivering flexible, reliable, and highly performant services to drive engagement across our sites. You are capable of being hands-on with code and development tools. You will:

• Implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions that are scalable and reliable.

• Work with other technology members to collaborate on overall infrastructure, best practices, and processes.

• Own production services, investigate and resolve issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies.

• Create and update thorough and readable living documentation for services.

• Develop APIs that allow brand content to be processed, enhanced, and made available to customers through multiple channels.

• Collaborate closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to define innovative ways to improve services.

• Work closely with developers creating internal tools to monitor and inform stakeholders of data being processed by our systems.

• Contribute to best practices for coding conventions and standards. Ensure that code quality is high, and work with developers to improve if it is not. 

• Demonstrate passion for code quality and lead by example to produce high quality services and applications that meet timeline expectations to deliver value to the business.

• Follow technologies relevant to the application and its domain and advocate for their use as appropriate.

About You:

You have a fundamental knowledge of modern development techniques and trends, and you are not done learning. You have:

• 6+ years of professional experience building and interacting with backend applications.

• 5+ years of experience building software and services as a backend or full-stack developer using object oriented languages.

• Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka is required.

• TypeScript, NodeJS and Python experience is required.

• Experience with ElasticSearch is required.

• Proficiency in Bitbucket, Git and other version control systems.

• Knowledge with telemetry, logging and observability [Grafana, Kibana, Splunk].

• Familiarity with cloud platforms - AWS, GCP and code deployment knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Cypress. 

• Comfortability working with modular components and testing in various environments they are used in.

• Ability to provide constructive feedback during code reviews and refinement sessions.

• The ability to make yourself understood to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Great analytical and problem-solving skills. You’re a results-oriented multi-tasker who runs toward a challenge.

• Curious about new technologies with a drive to pursue change. Passionate interests in exploring advanced AI and LLM technologies and how it can help power our components.

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 ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

The 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 Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash 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, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing 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.