Principal Software Engineer

Versant Media, LLC; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media is seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer who will design and build the next generation of flagship digital experiences for our CNBC brand. They will work with a team of engineers to design and ship APIs, microservices, and web frontends, while mentoring junior developers and shaping architectural direction.

The role emphasizes collaboration across product, data, and editorial teams, with a mobile-friendly mindset, accessibility, and performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Solid understanding of core programming principles and design patterns.
• Solid background writing tests and improving test quality and coverage.
• Comfortable working with Git, Jenkins and Jira.
• Ability to leverage build tools to enable cross-team module sharing and integration with third-party modules.
• Fluency and comfort utilizing and improving CI/CD pipelines for native apps.
• Great communication skills, paying special attention to how your message is delivered to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, review, and ship software for our platforms, including APIs, microservices, and web frontends.
• Drive collaboration on architecture, data models, data flows, schemas and API contracts.
• Facilitate cross-platform engineering discussions to ensure consistency and efficiency within a multi-stack team.
• Engage in code reviews to ensure high-quality software and informed decisions.
• Influence and refine the technical strategy and architectural principles for the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to define, design, scope, and ship user-facing features.
• Mentor engineering teammates and improve the team’s ability to hit goals.
• Write and refine documentation to optimize developer experience and onboarding.

Skills

Frontend development

Software design patterns

Testing / QA

Git Jenkins Jira

CI/CD

Communication

React

Tools

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

ElasticSearch

Redis

Node.js

Go

AWS

Jenkins

DataDog

Splunk

Github

Storybook

Kubernetes

Amplitude

Job description

• Compensation: USD 165,000 - USD 225,000 - yearly

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

Versant Media is seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer who possesses a passion for building great user experiences for digital platforms. They will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of flagship digital experiences for our CNBC brand. Our team offers a unique opportunity to be part of a passionate, collaborative team building digital experiences used by millions of users. Your voice will be key in helping us craft a technical vision that aligns with the goals of the organization, increases the effectiveness and reach of the frontend web team and ultimately maximizes revenue. As a technical leader in our engineering community, your experience will be crucial in helping coach and mentor junior devs and have a direct impact on the architectural vision and strategy of our division.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, review, and ship software for our platforms, including our suite of APIs and microservices, and web frontends
• Drive collaboration on the design of system architecture, data models, data flows, schemas and API contracts
• Facilitate cross-platform engineering discussions that lead to consistency, efficiency and unity within a multi-stack team
• Engage in code reviews that lead to high-quality software and team decisions
• Influence and refine the technical strategy and architectural principles for our organization
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to define, design, scope, and ship user-impacting features
• Collaborate with relevant technical groups, such as backend and component library development teams, educating others about the work of the team and assuring strong integration between systems and high trust between groups
• Optimize team efficiency and output quality with strategies including unit-test coverage and working with QA on test automations
• Identify opportunities to reduce tech debt
• Write and refine useful documentation that optimizes developer experience and onboarding for new teammates
• Define and champion engineering principles that lead to great developer experience, high application performance and all-around user satisfaction
• Mentor engineering teammates, providing technical guidance, spurring individual growth and ultimately improving the team’s ability to hit goals

Qualifications

Qualifications/Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of professional frontend development experience
• Solid understanding of core programming principles and design patterns
• Solid background writing tests and improving test quality and coverage
• Comfortable working with Git, Jenkins and Jira
• Ability to leverage build tools to enable cross-team module sharing and integration with third-party modules
• Fluency and comfort utilizing and improving CI/CD pipelines for native apps
• Great communication skills, paying special attention to how your message is delivered to technical and non-technical audiences alike

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with contemporary backend development platforms, such as cloud services, container technologies and serverless backends
• Experience with web technologies, hybrid apps or native integration of web applications
• A mobile-first mindset, paying special attention to accessibility, page optimization and/or SEO
• Excels in an environment with cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, Editors, and other highly skilled specialists
• Experience working in media/publishing
• Our front-end framework of choice is React
• Our data stores include PostgresSQL, and more. We use GraphQL and ElasticSearch for queries and Redis for caching
• We use Node.js and Go in our backends
• We mostly host our services in AWS
• Our technical ecosystem includes (but isn’t limited to) Jenkins, DataDog, Splunk, Github, StoryBook, Kubernetes and Amplitude

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.