Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

The job is for a senior engineer position in Hearst E-Commerce's Events team, focusing on prototyping and deploying new product concepts within the Local Events space. The role involves architecting and designing new features, collaborating with various teams, and working with ML and LLM R&D. The job is fully remote and available to applicants in the contiguous United States.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience building at-scale backend systems in a language of your choice. (Python or JavaScript/NodeJS are preferred, but not required.)
• A knowledge of how to scale a small experiment (hundreds of concurrent users) to web-scale audiences (hundreds of thousands of concurrent users)
• A curiosity and willingness to work with frontend teams to design more effective APIs and resolve client-side performance issues
• Knowledge of best practices for observability and instrumentation in a complex microservice environment
• Experience working with data engineering teams to help stream data to off-application analytical tools
• An interest in creating and fostering mentorship cultures, including mentoring, and being mentored
• Design, development, and/or operating experience with an at-scale (>$500MM GMV annually) E-commerce site (marketplace or retailer) that sells directly to consumers, an at-scale E-commerce infrastructure or platform services that support, but do not provide, a marketplace or retail store directly, or a mix of the two
• A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent real-life experience

Responsibilities

• Architect and design new features and systems with the support of our product and design teams using a combination of internally developed and third-party solutions
• Build the designs you’ve created!
• Partner with our operations teams to deploy and scale services we build across Hearst
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers across Hearst to define product roadmaps and technical investments
• Be both a mentor and a mentee for your peers and the extended engineering team at Hearst

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (including 10 paid holidays, 15 days paid vacation, three personal days, and seven days of paid sick time)
• Employee assistance programs