[Remote] Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. iHeartMedia, the number one audio company in America, is seeking a Software Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves full stack development, including building front-end applications and backend microservices, while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Gain valuable experience at a rapidly growing big data company
• Collaborate with independent technology teams using the agile methodology
• Build interactive and intuitive UIs that solve complex problems and are a delight to use
• Building new, efficient, and scalable front-end applications
• Contribute to robust APIs that pull from both graph and relational databases
• Collaborate closely with a product team to plan, execute, and ship business critical projects
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Participate regularly in code reviews with your peers
• Test your creativity at Unified hack-a-thons
• Ship work you're proud of

Skills

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 2.5+ years experience of designing and building successful customer facing web applications
• Proficient in at least one, preferably statically typed, programming language i.e. (Java, C++, Golang)
• Strong understanding of Javascript and at least one frontend framework i.e. React, Vue, AngularJS
• Experience building Javascript based web applications with HTML5, CSS, Node.js
• Experience contributing to and integrating with REST APIs
• Hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries in at least one of the common database platforms such as MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Experience running shell commands, e.g. OS X or Linux terminal
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Good architectural level understanding, the ability to see the big picture, and the ability to evaluate different approaches and tools and use instincts to make timely judgements
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• A cooperative, understanding, open, and friendly demeanor
• A mindset of continuous improvement
• Experience with Git and Github, including Github Pull Request workflows
• Experience working with GraphQL for querying APIs and serving relevant data
• Global UI state management with Apollo and React Apollo
• NPM and JavaScript build tools, e.g. Babel, Webpack, Browserify
• Python, TypeScript
• MVVM framework Vue.js
• Amazon Web Services
• Microservice architecture design principles
• Graph databases, e.g. Neo4j
• Columnar data stores, e.g. Amazon Redshift, BigQuery
• CI/CD systems, e.g. Jenkins
• Experience with Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Agile methodologies
• Social networks APIs, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
• Data pipeline and streaming tech, e.g. Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams

Benefits

• Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
• Company provided and supplemental life insurance
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid company holidays
• A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
• A 401K plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
• ​A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!

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