Software Engineer

iHeartMedia • Virtual, NY

23h • Remote

About The Position

The audio revolution is here – and iHeart is leading it! iHeartMedia, the number one audio company in America, reaches 90% of Americans every month. We are looking for a full stack engineer with a demonstrated track record of developing and maintaining production services, innovative thinking, and technical excellence. This role will be a mixture of technical design, individual contribution, and thorough testing. You will be part of our fast paced, innovative team of engineers who engage in full stack development of features involving building delightful front-end experience as per our design specifications to building microservices and designing data stores for the backend. You are flexible with languages and tools and are willing to learn whatever is necessary to get the job done. Collaborate with our product and design teams to understand pain points and build solutions. Help maintain a high level of engineering quality. You build collective ownership amongst the team by contributing to code reviews, designs and whiteboarding.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 2.5+ years experience of designing and building successful customer facing web applications
• Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language i.e. (Java, C++, Golang)
• Strong understanding of Javascript and at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS
• Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js
• Experience contributing to and integrating with REST APIs
• Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, and the ability to evaluate different approaches and tools and use instincts to make timely judgements
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• A cooperative, understanding, open, and friendly demeanor
• A mindset of continuous improvement
• Experience with Git and Github, including Github Pull Request workflows
• Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return
• Experience with various technical disciplines and applications
• Close attention to detail, following up until issues are resolved
• Ability to multitask on a variety of critical projects
• Ability to work independently, while also collaborating with others
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate moderately complex technical information within the team
• Skills to recognize and solve frequently occurring problems
• Analytical thinking
• Resourcefulness and independent judgement

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data
• Global UI state management with Apollo and React Apollo
• NPM and JavaScript build tools, e.g. Babel, Webpack, Browserify
• Python, TypeScript
• MVVM framework Vue.js
• Amazon Web Services
• Microservice architecture design principles
• Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j
• Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery
• CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins
• Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Agile methodologies
• Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
• Data pipeline and streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams

Responsibilities

• Gain valuable experience at a rapidly growing big data company
• Collaborate with independent technology teams using the agile methodology
• Build interactive and intuitive UIs that solve complex problems and are a delight to use
• Building new, efficient, and scalable front-end applications
• Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph and relational databases
• Collaborate closely with a product team to plan, execute, and ship business critical projects
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Participate regularly in code reviews with your peers
• Test your creativity at Unified hack-a-thons
• Ship work you're proud of

Benefits

• Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
• Company provided and supplemental life insurance
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid company holidays
• A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
• A 401K plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
• A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level