Business Wire is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Business Wire is seeking an experienced full-stack Principal Software Engineer with a strong cloud engineering background to lead the rebuild of their back office system, using modern technology stacks. The role involves developing engineering designs, providing technical leadership, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring code quality.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience
• Technical leadership experience, leading 6-10 engineers on 6+ months long projects
• Expert level knowledge in modern programming languages and their ecosystems, including Python, Go Lang, Node.js or similar
• Extensive experience in Cloud platform architectures, at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure
• Expertise in multiple types of database and data retrieval technologies including Relational, NoSQL, GraphQL and others
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent skills in developing engineering designs and related documentation

Responsibilities

• Develop engineering design and documentation for multiple components of a press release processing system
• Provide technical leadership and direct contribution to the code base using modern technology stacks
• Lead development of proof of concepts (POCs)
• Contribute to design of development environments, develop usage guidelines, and SDLC best practices
• Lead and contribute to implementation of CI/CD flows
• Tackle a wide variety of technical problems throughout the stack and contribute daily to all parts of our product code base
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to develop complex systems
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and maintainability
• Monitor the correct implementation of engineering designs and address implementation issues
• Identify and design solutions for performance bottlenecks across the entire application

Preferred Qualifications

Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position

Benefits

• Ability to work remotely
• Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
• $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
• 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
• PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!