Principal Software Engineer

Company Description

We are looking for senior software engineers who can work on one or more of our API, Editorial Tools and Web teams. NBC News Digital is great home for proactive engineers who can collaborate and inspire other engineers across several different teams.

Here at NBC News Digital, you will create the tools, infrastructure and digital experiences for one of the most trusted and wide-reaching news sources in the world. From building tools that empower reporters and editors to creating innovative, engaging, high-performance web and mobile experiences, our engineers are the backbone of NBC News, MSNBC and The TODAY Show’s online presence.

We work with technologies like Node.js, React, Go, GraphQL, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ. We’re also committed to collaboration - engineers here work with product managers, designers, other engineers, reporters and editors to deliver great software experiences for our users.

This position is based at NBC’s headquarters in Rockefeller Center in New York, NY.

What We Offer:

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO

Onsite fitness center, gourmet cafeteria, massage therapist, chiropractor, clubhouse, nap pods, and more!

New technology center

Universal Park Tickets and companywide discounts Active investment in skill-building and growth Volunteer Opportunities and many more

Job Description

Build, test, review, and ship software for our platforms, including our suite of APIs and microservices, editorial tools, and web frontends

Partner with other engineering squads to collaboratively develop our APIs, content management and frontend systems

Collaborate on the design of system architecture, data models, data flows, schemas and API contracts

Be an advocate for your team and advise our product group, other development teams, and the newsroom. Serve as a leader and technical mentor for the group. Guide the selection and implementation of new architectures, technologies and methodologies in our group

Qualifications

• The people who are most successful and have the most fun in our organization have the following attributes:
• You have top-notch skills in your technical domain. Whether you work on the front-end, back-end or across the stack, you can demonstrate fluency in the core areas of technology you work with (calibrated to the level you’re at in your career). You also are committed to learning and growing your skill set.
• You are user and product focused. You not only make great technology, but you understand and are passionate about how your work as a technologist makes products more insightful, delightful, performant and profitable. Engineers at NBC News Digital are expected to contribute to the strategy, planning and execution of projects.
• You’re committed to collaboration. Engineers at NBC News Digital work closely with other engineers as well as product managers, designers, editors, reporters and broadcasters. As an engineer you’re expected to voice your opinion,
• understand other people’s point of view and work with others to make great products and technology.
• You take ownership, are proactive and entrepreneurial. You want to make technology work and are excited about knocking down barriers to do that. You are OK with ambiguity and work to reduce it by building and prototyping. You push for solutions that solve immediate problems while building towards long- term goals.
• You’re a system thinker. You love to understand not only how your code works but also how it fits into the larger ecosystem of services.
• Requirements
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience with modern programming paradigms in production
• We use Node.js and Go in our backends. Experience with other backend technologies like Java is great.
• Our data stores include MongoDB, PostgresSQL, and more. We use ElasticSearch for queries and Redis for caching.
• Our frontends are HTML and CSS/SASS
• We use React primarily as a frontend framework. Experience with other frontend frameworks like Vue, Mithril, Angular and others is also great.
• Experience with version control, peer review, and other modern development practices.
• Experience working in the the AWS ecosystem is highly desirable

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.

Salary range: $170,000 - $220,000 (bonus eligible).

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, nati