Sr Product Software Engineer (News Front-End)
About The Position
As a Senior Product Software Engineer on the News Web Squad, you will help build and maintain websites for ABC News and the eight ABC Owned and Operated Television Stations. The team delivers personalized video, election results, and breaking local news. You will collaborate with engineers from ESPN and Disney entertainment brands to support products and share solutions, using technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, and React to develop scalable solutions, product features, and core site architecture. The role includes owning product features across their lifecycle, addressing complex technical problems, contributing to architecture and engineering practices, and helping raise quality standards. You will work independently with minimal guidance and serve as a technical resource and mentor to less experienced engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience.
- Extensive experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, and modern front-end web development technologies and best practices.
- Ability to own products and features throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment and ongoing support.
- Experience designing, building, and delivering scalable features and applications for high-traffic environments.
- Commitment to software quality, including automated testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
- Ability to research, analyze, and develop solutions to complex technical challenges.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong attention to detail.
- Highly motivated, self-directed, results-oriented, and proactive in problem-solving.
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent.
Nice To Haves
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership through delivery of complex projects.
- Experience building and scaling consumer-facing web applications for large and diverse user bases.
- Experience integrating with content management systems and content delivery pipelines.
- Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven decision-making.
- Experience developing personalized user experiences, recommendation engines, and feed-driven interfaces.
- Ability to influence technical direction, drive architectural improvements, and contribute to long-term engineering strategy.
- Experience optimizing application performance, scalability, and user experience.
- Comfort leveraging AI-powered development tools and coding assistants, with sound judgment in validating outputs, maintaining code quality, and guiding effective adoption.
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment tooling.
- Experience with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic or Datadog.
- Experience with high-traffic consumer products.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product-level features for ABC News and ABC OTV station websites.
- Build solutions for problems of sizeable scope and complexity.
- Develop specifications and technical designs for new features, refactors, and architectural improvements.
- Recommend improvements to development, coding, maintenance, and system standards.
- Review peers’ code for design, testability, and usability, and help raise the team’s definition of done.
- Identify and lead improvements to tooling, performance, accessibility, observability, or developer experience.
- Influence and drive software engineering best practices within the team, working independently with minimal guidance.
- Mentor less experienced engineers through code reviews, design discussions, on-call rotations, and one-to-one guidance.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, depending on level and position.
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits are available depending on level and position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
