Senior Software Developer

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Role Summary

CNN Digital Commerce is looking for a software developer experienced in modern enterprise-class languages and development platforms, with a strong emphasis on JavaScript/Node. Deeply involved in design, implementation, test and deployment of web applications.

Engineer will be responsible for creating a customer facing product, testing artifacts, develop tooling and must have communication skills needed to ensure product success as per requirements. Candidate must have ability to test and learn newer technologies and concepts on the job related to best practices and operational excellence.

Requirements

• B.S./M.S. or higher in Computer Science, Software or other Engineering or related field required.
• 5-10 years of software development experience, with a strong focus on application development.
• 5+ years of Node.JS, Express, Vue.JS, ES 6 experience at least.
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, Typescript, and Python using AWS services, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis and mentor peers in those languages and tools.
• Expert level working with modern engineering technologies such as Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Snowflake and Git.
• Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology. Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms.
• A passion to grow professionally and continue developing along an individual contributor path.
• Have previous involvement in building medium to large-scale, "mission critical", "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business and technical, or operational functions.
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write.
• Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information
• Can critically evaluate code as a method of learning, and knows when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts

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