Overview:
Known for our outstanding voices across the U.S., Audacy is the premier provider of local, spoken word, and premium audio content. For technical talent, we have created a team that leverages new toolsets, develops collaboratively with business stakeholders, and is pushing the boundaries of audio every day. We are looking for an innovative, passionate and results driven Sr. Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team to help us build the future of radio and audio together.
You listen to Audacy content all of the time…and may not know how much more incredible audio content we offer including: podcasts, news & sports talk radio, and amazing music stations. As a leader in all-things-audio, Audacy is transforming the listening experience through innovation and interactivity–and you may be just the person to join our team to help us do this!
Audacy’s Internal Tools team is looking for a senior level engineer with over 10 years of experience developing, planning and implementing scalable back-end micro services. Proficiencies in NodeJS, TypeScript, Java and Kafka. Experience in building restful api’s and a strong understanding of the micro service architecture and headless CMS’s.
The candidate will work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment to deliver high-quality software services that drive client engagement and delight users.
The ideal candidate is a team player who is passionate about creating effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products, and has extensive experience in building microservices and headless content management systems. We are looking for someone who can drive technical discussions, and build compelling presentations that clearly communicate solutions to stakeholders, technical and non-technical alike. We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery. This is an individual contributor role with strong development and organizational skills.
Responsibilities:
What You'll Do:
- Oversee the completion of large mission critical features and services
- Create backend services focused on entertainment, sports and news content
- Architect, prototype, and develop features
- Help to identify goals establish deadlines and ensure solutions are cost efficient and maintainable
- Create well defined and documented services.
- Lead by example with quality code and best practices
- Participate in code reviews and scrum ceremonies
- Mentor mid and junior developers
Qualifications:
More About You:
Required & Preferred:
Required
Qualifications
8+ years of engineering experience as a back-end or full-stack developer- Experience writing Java applications
- Experience writing NodeJS applications
- Experience designing relational databases, NOSQL databases as well as data structures for software architectures
- Deep understanding of RESTful API patterns
- Familiar with Scrum.
- Hands-on experience building end-to-end software infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, testing, logging, and monitoring
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work across environments and juggle many projects simultaneously
Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of Kafka clusters, partitions, and topics.- Demonstrable hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures
- Experience with BloomReach CMS
- Knowledge of GitLab Flow
- Experience with NestJS
Additional Information:
Pay Transparency:
The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000-$140,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity. This position can be located remotely or at one of Audacy’s offices in Denver, New York City, Philadelphia, or Chicago.
Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.
About Us:
Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at
www.audacyinc.com
, Facebook (Audacy Corp) and
Twitter
(@AudacyCorp).
EEO:
Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.