Senior Software Developer 1

Job Title
Senior Software Developer 1
Job Description
About Your Role:
Dotdash Meredith is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our User Services engineering group. This team's Engineering focus is on cloud-hosted low-latency microservices and event-driven pipelines that power user accounts, authentication, privacy, and content personalization for ~200 million users across brands like People, Allrecipes, Investopedia, and more.
About Your Contributions:
As an experienced engineer, you will work collaboratively with your peers to build and maintain the user registration platform. You will partner with Product and Engineering leaders to implement technical and functional designs to meet business objectives. You will lead your peers through the example of your technical and professional excellence. You will:

• Develop backend systems and moderation tools that enable conversion, engagement, management, and security of known users across our websites and publications.
• Design and implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions.
• Own production services, investigate and resolve issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, designers, and product managers to define innovative ways to improve services and reduce costs.
• Actively participate in technical mentorship with engineers on the team by performing thorough code reviews, pairing, and architecture reviews of proposed solutions.
• Develop and drive engineering best practices, performance, and scalability.
• Take opportunities to share knowledge with others across the organization through documentation, training, and demos.
• Demonstrate passion for code quality and lead by example to produce high quality, performant, and secure services and applications.

About You:
You have broad, deep knowledge of modern development techniques and trends, and you are not done learning. You have:

• 6+ years of professional experience designing, building, and interacting with backend applications and RESTful APIs.
• Experience working in multiple back-end and/or full-stack technology frameworks in multiple languages. Practical knowledge of service languages such as Java or NodeJS is preferred. Experience with both container-based (Docker) and serverless (AWS Lambda/SQS/etc) paradigms preferred.
• Experience developing complex and highly available services running in a production environment. Experience implementing concepts within the Twelve-Factor App methodology preferred.
• The ability to make yourself understood to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are an outstanding communicator and your interactions with stakeholders and coworkers move business forward in a dynamic, exciting, entrepreneurial working environment. You are as good - maybe better - at listening as you are at talking and writing.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. You're results-oriented and run toward a challenge.
• Ability to be flexible, negotiate in good faith, compromise where needed, and find paths forward.

About Us:
Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith's over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.
It is the policy of Meredith Operations Corporation ("Dotdash Meredith", "the Company") 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 [email protected] .
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