Remote Software Development Engineer Senior, Web

Summary

Join our team at MotorTrend Group as a Software Development Engineer III, Web to help develop the next generation of Motor Trend Group’s platforms for Motortrendondemand.com and key brands. As a leading role in designing and developing complex functional changes to existing software systems or new ones, you will make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing. You will provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on, and propose and create best practices proactively where none exist. You will also make high impact decisions driving how and what software gets built, understand how individual pieces of software fit into a greater ecosystem, and actively communicate and advocate for choices among multiple stakeholders.

Requirements

• BA/BS in a Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience with developing software in Next.js
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance, object-oriented programming principles)
• Experience with 3rd party API consumption, client side
• Proficiency with optimizing for performance, scalability, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience with JavaScript (Node.js, React, Next.js, rxjs), Webpack
• Experience with Git workflow, Version Standarding

Responsibilities

• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop complex functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers. You make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing
• You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exist
• You make high impact decisions driving how and what software gets built. Your decisions are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team. You understand how individual pieces of software fit into a greater ecosystem and can actively communicate and advocate for choices among multiple stakeholders
• You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• An employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• A retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and paid time off (PTO)