Software Engineer

Summary:
We'd love you to join our thriving MediaNews Group product development team whose mission is to create people-centric, software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. We help small teams play big!
Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts content, people and performance first. You will be a member of our cross-functional digital subscriptions agile team focused on building value for readers and subscribers while accelerating subscription growth and engagement. As part of the broader MediaNews Group Product & Technology team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes learning, continuous improvement, and flexibility, allowing for many personal and professional growth opportunities along the way. Supporting our culture, our work-style and approach is pragmatic yet approachable - we are agile, lean, and minimum viable process oriented as we transform from a build to scale whole-product mindset through four core principles: be transparent; be disciplined; be bold; be together. Join us!
What you will do:
The Software Engineer is a member of an agile team that solves customer or team problems by creating valuable, quality software with a continuous delivery focus. This role is responsible for building high quality, reliable, scalable product experiences by designing, developing, implementing, integrating, and maintaining customized and off-the-shelf solutions while leveraging best of class digital technology, partners, and platforms. The software engineer also must continually innovate and survey the marketplace to bring new digital technology, practices, and principles into the agile team and product experience. This role is expected to regularly collaborate with product management during definition and prioritization by brainstorming and envisioning the solution and providing a job size for prioritization, and works with project management throughout the agile delivery lifecycle. With a focus on shipping value quickly, the Software Engineer frequently and creatively devises smaller deliverables and experiments to run to lower the cost and time to ship, without sacrificing quality.
Specifically, we are seeking an individual who is a leader comfortable with uncertainty, change, and figuring things out. You will be working in a newly-created scrum team, working in context of existing scrum teams and products. We need someone who can assert themselves confidently, is not afraid of deadlines, and is willing to point out and implement improvements or fill gaps.
Everyone on our team is an individual contributor, so be ready to roll up your sleeves and get things done.

• Investigate, build and integrate new technologies for the company's digital subscriptions platforms

• Understand engineering best practices and how to apply them to new products in a largely undefined environment
• Provide feedback on team projects to project and product managers
• Work with senior engineers and product managers to implement code in a maintainable fashion
• Write unit tests
• Contribute to best practices for building sustainable products
• Create and update documentation

What you will bring:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or an intensive bootcamp
• 2+ years of relevant software development experience
• Media experience preferred but not required
• Experience working in an agile environment a plus
• Knowledge in JavaScript, JS frameworks, such as React, WordPress, PHP, AWS platform experience, CSS, HTML, Unit testing, Git

The annual salary is $90,000 - $110,000 dollars. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. This role is eligible for a bonus based on performance. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
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