Senior Software Architect

Senior Software Architect (Front-End)

Hearst Newspapers is revamping our in-house CMS and looking for a talented Front-End Architect to help us. Architects play a crucial role on our engineering team, overseeing the architecture and overall implementation plans for all of our user-facing applications.

Architects collaborate in an agile software development environment with other members of our team including engineers, QA, designers, as well as product managers and project managers. They have a deep impact in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment and build software that scales.

As an architect, you provide development leadership within an agile team. As someone with strong software development experience, you guide teams into building the highest quality solutions to business problems.

You'll then work with engineers by sharing your knowledge of the projects based on your cooperation with other departments. You will help us stay focused on future-proofing our products.
• Project assignment and scheduling
• Team mentorship
• Project scoping and approval
• Facilitate project estimates
• Understand front end development process
• Keep up to date on the latest technologies
• Mitigate project issues
• Team code reviews

* Coordinate with other teams for projects that span multiple departments

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or 10+ years front end development and 5+ years team lead level
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a team, project management, and technical leadership experience
• Team management experience
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive. We want a self-starter • Proficient working in an agile software development environment
• Proficient in testing the front-end code for supported browsers and devices • Proficient in JavaScript (framework agnostic)
• Proficient in HTML / CSS (Sass)
• Production experience with Node.js and React, Angular, or Vue

Preferred Qualifications
• Production experience with Typescript
• Production experience with a NoSQL database
• Familiar with technologies such as PHP, MySQL, and the Unix command line • Production experience with a functional programming pattern or language • Production experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing to UI frameworks
• Strong portfolio of work showing experience developing standards-compliant front-end code for the product and/or marketing websites, web applications, and/or mobile experiences

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Newspapers requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Newspapers will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements