Dotdash Meredith
Principal Software Engineer, 1
Dotdash Meredith, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079
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Principal Software EngineerJob Description
About The Position:
Bizrate is seeking an experienced technology leader with a demonstrated track record of mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence with backend technologies. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of modern backend architecture, databases, and AWS solutions to our Principal Software Engineer opportunity.You will guide our technology teams (including those outside of your department) towards building scalable, resilient, secure, and well-architected technology solutions that achieve our business goals. You will partner with business stakeholders and work alongside teams to deliver on these opportunities. You will have a direct and immediate impact on helping create new systems and platforms, while ensuring existing pathways are efficient and performant.You will be an example to others of our core values - Champion Accountability, Respect, Expect Integrity, Act Now - Not Later, Make it Matter. If you are obsessed and excited about architecture, design, and hands-on software development and coaching, then this is the role for you!Remote or Hybrid:
This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Birmingham, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Seattle, the expectation is to work from the office three times per month.About The Team:
Bizrate Insights, a Dotdash Meredith company, is one of the largest sources of verified customer-generated seller ratings and reviews, helping both retailers and consumers make informed decisions. Bizrate Insights’ core solutions cover online visitors and buyers as well as retail store buyers, allowing partners of all sizes to build best-in-class customer experiences, gain competitive intelligence, and attract qualified traffic.About The Position's Contributions:
Build some amazing things, learn, teach, have fun.Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure the team delivers extraordinary results – focusing on creating value, continuous improvement, and collaboration.Help drive the exploration of AI technologies and adoption into platform capabilities.Thoroughly understand client, business, and user needs, and provide effective solutions to meet those needs.Dive deep into tech, driving architecture, design, and best practices via hands-on contributions.Help define the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap with other senior Engineers to achieve scalable, secure, and robust platforms.Effectively participate in multiple projects and work across a broad range of technologies and products.Apply principles of systems thinking and a holistic mindset to existing systems and the business domains in which they are utilized, developing and introducing policies and processes that support reaching quality, reliability, and observability goals from design through post-production.Display an ingrained data-driven decision-making (ROI) process, knowing when to push for a change and when to suggest a mitigation or acceptance, teaching that mindset to others.The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:
Education:
College degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.Experience:You have 10+ years of hands-on software development experience and additional time in a lead architecture/design role, with a deep understanding of architecture and design across many frameworks and languages with a primary focus on backend systems.You have worked on many projects from start to finish, and had a senior role in their creation, development, and maintenance.You have experience in a senior role architecting cloud-based applications that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, high availability, and serverless technologies.Results-oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches – knowing when it matters and when it doesn’t.You are both accepting of other people’s ideas and confident in your own.You listen, collaborate, and communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and facilitate solutions with actionable plans.You thoroughly understand the business and product landscape and can discuss and recommend trade-offs across business, product, and technology.You know these (and more) well: Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, and AWS - EC2, Lambda, SQL, RDS, Redshift, SQS/SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Redis/Elasticache, ELB/ALB, etc.Knowledgeable about surrounding infrastructure, applications, and processes that are adjacent to their technical domain (deployment pipeline workflow, logging and alerting systems, general network configuration, security, etc).You care deeply about customers, architecture, design, technology, process, and quality.Strong troubleshooting skills, a demonstrated ability to analyze and provide creative solutions to issues in production systems and elsewhere.Values integrity, humility, curiosity, collaboration, creating value, and continuous improvement.It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here:
E-Verify .Pay Range:
Salary: New York: $165,000.00 - $200,000.00; Remote-US: $140,000.00 - $165,000.00; California: $165,000.00 - $200,000.00.The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short-term and long-term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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Principal Software EngineerJob Description
About The Position:
Bizrate is seeking an experienced technology leader with a demonstrated track record of mentorship, innovative thinking, and technical excellence with backend technologies. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of modern backend architecture, databases, and AWS solutions to our Principal Software Engineer opportunity.You will guide our technology teams (including those outside of your department) towards building scalable, resilient, secure, and well-architected technology solutions that achieve our business goals. You will partner with business stakeholders and work alongside teams to deliver on these opportunities. You will have a direct and immediate impact on helping create new systems and platforms, while ensuring existing pathways are efficient and performant.You will be an example to others of our core values - Champion Accountability, Respect, Expect Integrity, Act Now - Not Later, Make it Matter. If you are obsessed and excited about architecture, design, and hands-on software development and coaching, then this is the role for you!Remote or Hybrid:
This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Birmingham, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Seattle, the expectation is to work from the office three times per month.About The Team:
Bizrate Insights, a Dotdash Meredith company, is one of the largest sources of verified customer-generated seller ratings and reviews, helping both retailers and consumers make informed decisions. Bizrate Insights’ core solutions cover online visitors and buyers as well as retail store buyers, allowing partners of all sizes to build best-in-class customer experiences, gain competitive intelligence, and attract qualified traffic.About The Position's Contributions:
Build some amazing things, learn, teach, have fun.Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure the team delivers extraordinary results – focusing on creating value, continuous improvement, and collaboration.Help drive the exploration of AI technologies and adoption into platform capabilities.Thoroughly understand client, business, and user needs, and provide effective solutions to meet those needs.Dive deep into tech, driving architecture, design, and best practices via hands-on contributions.Help define the technology vision, strategy, and roadmap with other senior Engineers to achieve scalable, secure, and robust platforms.Effectively participate in multiple projects and work across a broad range of technologies and products.Apply principles of systems thinking and a holistic mindset to existing systems and the business domains in which they are utilized, developing and introducing policies and processes that support reaching quality, reliability, and observability goals from design through post-production.Display an ingrained data-driven decision-making (ROI) process, knowing when to push for a change and when to suggest a mitigation or acceptance, teaching that mindset to others.The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:
Education:
College degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.Experience:You have 10+ years of hands-on software development experience and additional time in a lead architecture/design role, with a deep understanding of architecture and design across many frameworks and languages with a primary focus on backend systems.You have worked on many projects from start to finish, and had a senior role in their creation, development, and maintenance.You have experience in a senior role architecting cloud-based applications that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, high availability, and serverless technologies.Results-oriented, tenacious, but with the ability to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches – knowing when it matters and when it doesn’t.You are both accepting of other people’s ideas and confident in your own.You listen, collaborate, and communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and facilitate solutions with actionable plans.You thoroughly understand the business and product landscape and can discuss and recommend trade-offs across business, product, and technology.You know these (and more) well: Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, and AWS - EC2, Lambda, SQL, RDS, Redshift, SQS/SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Redis/Elasticache, ELB/ALB, etc.Knowledgeable about surrounding infrastructure, applications, and processes that are adjacent to their technical domain (deployment pipeline workflow, logging and alerting systems, general network configuration, security, etc).You care deeply about customers, architecture, design, technology, process, and quality.Strong troubleshooting skills, a demonstrated ability to analyze and provide creative solutions to issues in production systems and elsewhere.Values integrity, humility, curiosity, collaboration, creating value, and continuous improvement.It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here:
E-Verify .Pay Range:
Salary: New York: $165,000.00 - $200,000.00; Remote-US: $140,000.00 - $165,000.00; California: $165,000.00 - $200,000.00.The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short-term and long-term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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