Puck · 1 week ago

Lead Software Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$200K/yr - $240K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead feature and optimization development from technical design through deployment and operational maintenance in Production

Collaborate, prototype, and lead customer acquisition / conversion funnel experiments and scale MVP ideas that work (leveraging both client-side and server-side tests)

Implement testing strategies and frameworks from the ground up (end-to-end, unit, behavioral, and acceptance testing, linting, and more)

Bring engineering leadership to project planning, implementation, delivery

Generate clean, well-commented code and technical documentation of the platform architecture as well as new and existing features

Full-stack background with expertise in multiple areas of the stack and comfort programming from scratch when necessary

Consumer-minded, ability to work seamlessly across Product, Growth, Data, Design, Ops, and Editorial

Manage external engineering contractors to deliver on the product roadmap

Qualification

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PHPObject-Oriented DevelopmentFrontend FrameworksBackend FrameworksAPI IntegrationSDKsSystems ArchitectureAnalytics TechnologyWordpressScaling PlatformsCI/CD PipelinesDevOps ProcessesGitSlackGoogle SuiteZoomTrelloJiraMiroFigmaProblem-SolvingCuriosityCommunicationEfficiencyCollaboration

Required

Advanced PHP expertise with 5+ years of object-oriented PHP7 & 8 development and tooling

4+ years of experience with one or more frontend frameworks (React, Next, Angular, or similar)

3+ years of experience with one or more backend frameworks (Node, Laravel, Ruby, or similar)

Strong familiarity with integrating 3rd party APIs and understanding SDKs for payment, registration, audio/video, email broadcast, and experimentation platforms without robust guidance

Familiarity with systems architecture

Proficiency with analytics technology

Extreme curiosity and motivation to learn new product areas and processes

Always looks for the out-of-the-box solution first, but able to create clean, simple custom solutions when needed

Operate with speed and efficiency, highly communicative, and able to portray highly technical details in layman's terms

Experience working in journalism, publication, media, news, or similar

Experience with PHP Wordpress-specific FE & BE development

Experience scaling media- or subscription-specific platforms, websites or products with a history of results delivery against core business objectives and metrics

Experience with frontend work involving imagery, videos, animations, TTS, UI responses, and more

Experience implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines and tools, setting up site monitoring and mature DevOps processes without guidance or direction

Experience collaborating with Git, Slack, Google Suite, Zoom, Trello, Jira, Miro and Figma