Software Engineer

Paramount

New York, NY

Full Time

Mid Level

98k-123k

30 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

CBS News seeks a Software Engineer with a passion for news. You will be creative, self-motivated, cross-functional, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving your existing abilities. You should also be a strong multi-tasker with solid time-management skills. To be successful at this job, you need to be a good team player, think outside of the box, have the ability to work in multiple programming languages, and enjoy working in a cross-functional/DevOps culture.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers
Produce highly reliable and performant code
Implement site features and user interfaces
Update legacy code to use modern technologies
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
Work in a fast-paced AGILE environment (e.g., TDD, SCRUM, Kanban) with evolutionary architecture and prototyping, experience with various databases, and configuration/deployment/testing solutions
Perform hands-on participation in team coding, developing interfaces for web applications, services, and future technology
Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

3+ years experience working on web properties, building new features
3+ years experience with Javascript technologies, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
Experience with browser APIs and optimizing front-end performance
HTML/CSS/Sass experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
Working knowledge of OO programming and patterns
Ability to evaluate code from libraries and other dependencies
Able to analyze, debug and troubleshoot problems in the code

Nice to Have

Passion for UI; Good sense of usability and design
Experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is preferred)
Experience working with Symfony and PHP
Experience with full stack development
Experience with Node.js (plus)
Experience with GitHub workflows
Experience working with different teams
Knowledge of distributed caches (like Varnish, Redis, Memcache, etc.) and Pub/Sub (like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

Qualifications

No specific formal educational qualifications specified in the description

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision insurance
401(k) plan
Life insurance coverage
Disability benefits
Tuition assistance program
Paid time off (PTO)
Bonus eligibility

Working at Paramount

CBS News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today's digital age. The company values inclusion, equal opportunity, and diversity, fostering an environment where opportunity, access, resources, and rewards are available to all. Paramount, the parent company, emphasizes social impact outreach initiatives and is committed to an inclusive workplace that respects race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, and veteran status.

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