Junior Software Engineer, Systems

Forbes is looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Software Engineer to join our Backend APIs team. It will be your responsibility to participate in shaping how Forbes addresses the challenges of handling contributor content across our many products. From championing technical design patterns to developing strategies for integrating with new technologies, ranging from search metadata to asynchronous processing, this role has a wide array of exciting problems to solve.

In addition to joining a high performing team, you would be joining a passionate and engaged culture that celebrates:

• Entrepreneurship: Freedom to innovate, identify new opportunities and take on responsibilities
• Career Development: Formal mentorship program, industry conference attendance and speaking opportunities
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible work schedule, regular group outings (innings?), the celebration of passion projects and side hustles, an understanding that you are human and the complexities that come with that
• Positivity: Emphasis on positive communication, growing everyone and team building

If you're looking for challenges and opportunities similar to those of a startup, with the benefits of a seasoned, successful company, read on.

Primary Role:

• Feature development and engineering excellence

Core Competencies:

• HTML & CSS
• Javascript
• Java/PHP/Node
• MySQL/MongoDB
• Comp Sci Fundamentals
• Unit/e2e Testing
• Contribute to architectural conversations and decisions
• Contribute to innovation
• Building optimized features and being conscious of performance implications

General Skills:

• Clear and positive communication skills
• Ability to thrive in an agile environment

Daily Expectations:

• Daily meeting with the team
• Work closely with the team lead to build interactive, large scale web applications
• Write high quality code that adheres to Coding Standards
• Code Reviews
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Analyzing and resolving technical and application problem
• Maintaining existing code
• New Feature Development

Desired Skills:

• Excited about digital media and publishing
• Genuine enthusiasm and strong sensibility for social publishing
• A passion for self-education and a drive to be ever forward looking

The annual salary range for this role is $80,000 - $100,000.

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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