Senior Software Engineer Verizon Media
Seattle, WA

Job Description

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you're looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business-and the world. Want in? As Verizon's media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and HuffPost help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we're transforming media for tomorrow, too. We're creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what's next in content, advertising and technology.

A Little About Us

Verizon Media is the largest digital news organization in the world (via comScore). It's the first part of the news daily habit for more people than any other platform across web, mobile and a variety of other experiences. It includes two major consumer brands: HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post) and Yahoo News

We invite you to join a brilliant, geek team at a growing, world-leading, innovative technology company. Your day to day work will include building next generation big data solutions, owning reporting, brand safety and fraud detection platforms supporting multi billion business while working with groundbreaking technologies in a hybrid environment, Data Centers and AWS Cloud

Responsibilities

* Collaborate with other developers and designers to help define, build, and deliver new features in our state of the art reporting solution


* Front end coding -- you will spend your time building front-end reporting/brand safety and fraud UI - coding primarily in JavaScript using Angular and React. This work includes new feature development, writing unit tests, refactoring and bug fixes.


* Back end coding -- you will spend your time building microservices to support reporting//brand safety and fraud back end - coding primarily in Java and Scala using Spring and Play. This work includes new feature development, architecture, writing unit tests, refactoring and bug fixes.


* Share responsibilities like system architecture/design reviews, code reviews, performance tuning and production support


* Own and deliver - from the small must-do tasks to larger, complex projects with many moving parts


* Share your opinions and help shape our technical direction, best practices, product ideas, and team processes. We value and depend on your input!



Requirements

* Strong knowledge of JavaScript


* Strong knowledge of Java/Scala


* Proven experience in building high scale systems


* Strong experience in working with Angular/React frameworks


* Keen with Spring/Play frameworks


* Experience with modern Java and JavaScript build tools - Jenkins/Webpack/Gulp/Babel


* Knowledge of HTML, CSS, LESS, Bootstrap or Material UI frameworks


* B.Sc/M.Sc in Computer Science or related field from a leading university


* Excellent problem-solving skills and drive to learn


* Proven experience in building high scale systems


* Strong team player


* Background in designing, implementing and operating highly secure and scalable applications on AWS - an advantage



Verizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Verizon Media is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please email ApplicantAccommodation@verizonmedia.com or call 408-336-1409. Emails/calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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