Software Engineer

 

 

Role Details:

CBS News seeks a Software Engineer with a passion for news. You will be creative, self-motivated, cross-functional, a quick study, and willing to develop new skills while constantly improving your existing abilities. You should also be a strong multi-tasker with solid time-management skills. To be successful at this job, you need to be a good team player, think outside of the box, have the ability to work in multiple programming languages, and enjoy working in a cross-functional/DevOps culture.

 

Your Day To Day

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers
• Produce highly reliable and performant code
• Implement site features and user interfaces
• Update legacy code to use modern technologies
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
• Work in a fast-paced AGILE environment. This should be second nature (TDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc.) with evolutionary architecture and prototyping, experience with various databases, and configuration/deployment/testing solutions
• Perform hands-on participation in team coding, developing interfaces for web applications, services, and future technology
• Perform other duties as assigned

 

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience working on web properties, building new features.
• 3+ years experience with Javascript technologies, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
• Experience with browser APIs and optimizing front-end performance
• HTML/CSS/Sass experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
• Working knowledge of OO programming and patterns
• Ability to evaluate code from libraries and other dependencies
• Able to analyze, debug and troubleshoot problems in the code

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with PHP and Symfony or a similar MVC such as Laravel
• Passion for UI; Good sense of usability and design
• Experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is preferred)
• Experience with full stack development
• Experience with Node.js (plus)
• Experience with GitHub workflows
• Experience working with different teams
• Knowledge of distributed caches (like Varnish, Redis, Memcache, etc.) and Pub/Sub (like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

 

All candidates must successfully complete a background check prior to starting employment at CBS Interactive. CBS Interactive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran. CBS Interactive complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

CBS News and Stations, brings together the power of CBS News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News Streaming local platforms, local websites and cbsnews.com, under one umbrella. CBS News and Stations is home to the nation’s #1 news program 60 MINUTES, the CBS News Streaming Network, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts CBS MORNINGS, CBS SATURDAY MORNING, the CBS EVENING NEWS, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, CBS WEEKEND EVENING NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN. CBS News and Stations provides news and information for the CBS Television Network,  CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and podcasts, Paramount +, all digital platforms, and the CBS News Streaming Network, the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service that is available free to everyone with access to the internet. The CBS News Streaming Network is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations’ top anchors and correspondents working locally, nationally and around the globe. CBS News’ streaming services, across national and local, amassed more than 1.01 billion streams in 2021. Launched in November 2014 as CBSN, the CBS News Streaming Network is available on 30 digital platforms and apps, as well as CBSNews.com and Paramount+. The service is available live in 91 countries. CBS News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today’s digital age. CBS News earns more prestigious journalism awards than any oth