Senior Software Engineer

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

ABOUT THE ROLE:
FANDANGO is looking for a SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER to build our next big thing in platform
growth across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango at Home. In this role, you’ll join the Platform Operations team and report to the Sr. Director of Platform Operations, helping to build and improve the tools and systems that power how we enable developer productivity while delivering platform enhancements. If you enjoy solving complex problems, building for scale, and making a measurable impact –we’d love to meet you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
As a Sr. Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Own features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Build and maintain internal tools and platforms that improve developer productivity across engineering teams.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and data models that support platform capabilities and scale across multiple properties.
• Build frontend interfaces for internal tooling using React and Next.js, ensuring intuitive and efficient user experiences.
• Take ownership of platform outcomes, working closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end test coverage.
• Partner with Platform and Infrastructure teams to leverage shared services and tooling effectively.
• Collaborate with SRE teams on reliability, observability, and incident response for systems you own.
• Work alongside Operations and Platform teams to ensure smooth operational handoffs and support readiness.
• Instrument applications with logging, metrics, and tracing to enable proactive monitoring and fast debugging.
• Participate in on-call rotations for services you build, triaging and resolving production issues.
•  Manage deployments through CI/CD pipelines, including feature flags and staged rollouts.
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain code quality.
• Continuously improve development practices, tools, and workflows within the team

Qualifications

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training/experience.
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of frontend development including React, state management, and responsive design principles.
• Solid experience building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and database systems.
• Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or productivity tooling.
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment with best practices for testing (unit, integration, e2e).
• Proven ability to architect scalable, secure, and maintainable applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong skills in version control (Git) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• Experience developing high-traffic platforms or internal developer tooling at scale.
• Deep understanding of system design, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of security best practices including authentication/authorization (OAuth, JWT), encryption, and secure data handling.
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Familiarity with observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience with feature flags, A/B testing, and progressive rollout strategies
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a collaborative, learning-focused culture.
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted development fundamentals, including prompt enginee