Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Meredith Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

People Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own design and implementation of scalable services in Picksy, shaping architecture and mentoring a team of engineers. You will collaborate with product and design to translate requirements into robust features, while maintaining high reliability and cost efficiency.

The role emphasizes production-grade services, deep technical judgment, and active leadership in code reviews and best practices within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or relevant field
• 6+ years of professional technology experience
• Deep understanding of REST, service architecture, monitoring, and horizontal scalability

Responsibilities

• Own solution design and implementation for scalable, highly available services.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across the team.
• Translate requirements into prototypes and world-class features with product and design input.
• Lead architecture decisions and best practices across the organization.
• Drive code reviews and ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Document services and share knowledge with the broader team.

Skills

REST APIs

System design

AWS/GCP

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

Frontend basics

Agile

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Solr

Graph databases

Job description

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Job Description

Picksy is our next-generation product discovery platform connecting shoppers with the things they love across thousands of retail partners. Users save, organize, and share products they’re excited about — and our platform turns those signals into a deeply personalized shopping experience. This team owns the foundational product data, services, applications, and integrations that power the Picksy experience.

Remote or Hybrid 3x per week

In-office Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Los Angeles, Seattle, or Edmonton, the expectation is to work from the office three days per week.

About The Position | Major goals and objectives and location requirements

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Picksy Services, you’ll take ownership of solution design and implementation for scalable, highly available services, while mentoring other engineers and helping shape the team’s technical direction. You’ll work closely with product owners, designers, and fellow engineers to translate requirements into prototypes and world‑class features, and you’ll be a go‑to voice on architecture decisions and best practices across the team.

You will:

• Partner with engineers across data, web, and mobile experiences to build and evolve the foundational services powering Picksy.
• Design and implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions.
• Own production services end-to-end — investigating issues, resolving bottlenecks, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost.
• Lead code reviews and mentor other engineers, setting the bar for code quality and advocating for best practices across the team.
• Drive the identification and prioritization of technical debt.
• Provide thorough, readable documentation for the services you own.
• Partner with engineers across the org to establish and align on shared best practices.
• Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, and deliver high-quality, complex services under tight timelines.

About The Positions Contributions:

Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

50%

Feature implementation:

Work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and tech leadership to plan and create new services, features, and enhancements.

15%

Architecture:

Lead technical design of new and expanding systems; drive identification and prioritization of technical debt; proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost.

15%

Maintenance:

Own production services end-to-end; investigate, troubleshoot, and implement fixes for bugs and operational issues.

10%

Review, Mentorship & Testing:

Lead code reviews and mentor other engineers, setting the bar for code quality; work closely with quality‑assurance engineers to facilitate feature testing and contribute to automated test coverage.

10%

Requirements Analysis:

Consume non‑technical user stories, providing feedback when necessary, translating into technical documentation, and/or using as a basis for implementation.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.

Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant professional technology experience.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Demonstrated deep understanding of REST, service architecture, monitoring, and the tenets of horizontal scalability.
• Experience developing complex and highly available services running in a production environment with SLAs.
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented and functional software design patterns, including those commonly used within large web application platforms.
• Proven experience developing and owning production services and applications deployed in AWS or GCP, leveraging containers, continuous integration, and codified infrastructure.
• Extensive experience using Node.js, TypeScript, and the NestJS framework, with some knowledge of Java and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and frontend web frameworks such as Vue or Nuxt (preferred).
• Knowledge of NoSQL data stores, graph databases, indexing, distributed locking, media transformation, and search engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, translating user stories into technical tasks and estimating effort effectively.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience leading architecture discussions, advocating for your approach, and mentoring team members.
• Motivation to learn new technologies and grow as a developer.

Travel Required (Approximate): 0%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [e-mail].

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

Salary: New York: $150,000 - $175,000 Remote US: $140,000 - $165,000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.In addition,People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.

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