Software Engineer

About the Role
Over the past year we successfully migrated off of our legacy CMS system, and have a new modern publishing platform based on Node.js, PostgreSQL, and React. The main site handles about a million users per day and we do our own OPS in house powered by Docker and AWS. The infrastructure handles hundreds of requests per second, all while sharing the same codebases on both the server and client.
The Opportunity
We're looking for engineers with a strong passion for building usable, high-performance websites and applications and who are interested in working with the latest browser and mobile capabilities. As an engineer joining this team you'll get to work on problems at the cutting edge of publishing. We are a team of technology generalists and we all work on any part of the stack at any given time in short iterations. You'll work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps to build premium products that deliver value to the business and give our readers even more reason to love The Daily Beast.
Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve multiple code bases at the same time
• Collaborate with other teams in the company to build products with the proper intent
• Work in a continuous delivery cycle and write code that can be shipped quickly
• Work with the other engineers to overcome challenges through pair programming and TDD
• Help develop simple, scalable architecture to build features upon

• 3 or more years of experience working with a modern javascript tech stack
• Familiarity with Single Page Applications using React and Webpack
• Experience scaling Node.js applications to handle intense and unpredictable loads
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical tradeoffs to less technical colleagues
• Up-to-date knowledge of tools and practices for building a well-performing modern website
• A personal practice of creating testable, well architected, reusable code
• A passion for great user experiences and a desire to work with a team that makes this a priority
• Desire to learn new skills and experiment with cutting edge technologies

Nice-to-haves

• Desire to learn and work with GraphQL
• Interest in working with React Native
• Experience with Flexbox
• Experience with Docker orchestration
• Advanced knowledge PostgreSQL and writing efficient queries
• Well versed in AWS and the breadth of services offered
• Familiarity with serverless architecture

Why Work Here

The Daily Beast is a globally recognized publication at IAC HQ in pristine Chelsea in New York City. Being part of IAC, we are able to provide you some of the best in benefits. We offer discretionary vacation (as in take what you need with approval for all exempt and non-guild employees), commuter subsidy, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) matching, subsidized gym membership, fully stock kitchens with snacks and drinks, and excuses to celebrate all the time! Work for us and work for something spectacular!

More About Us

Why The Daily Beast? We reach over 20mm of the most affluent and influential readers on the web, the majority of whom are millennials. We have the aesthetic, quality, and editorial chops of a traditional media company with the nimble, tech-savvy required to be a digital only publisher. We are the best in the business at content partnerships, and we prove it through home grown proprietary content tools that allow us to both predict what our partners should write about, but also measure the success of their content. This is a rare opportunity to work for a well-known, well respected digital brand that helps drive the national conversation from politics to fashion, or breaking news to culture.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status