Senior Software Engineer

Business Insider is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Content Platform team.

Business Insider is for people who are driven, optimistic and always looking forward. Our mission is to inspire action through thought-provoking stories. We tell our audience what they want and need to know to improve their lives and the world with storytelling that is accessible, smart, sometimes unexpected, and always helpful. Our team members embody and uphold Business Insider’s three core values: we are all one team, we are effective, and we get better every day.

Role & Team

The Senior Software Engineer willwork closely with other engineers and our Product team to design and build world-class services and APIs that are reliable, scalable, and performant. If you are passionate about improving existing technologies and building brand new applications, have an innate curiosity for how things work, and enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people, this is the opportunity for you.

The Content Platform team is responsible for content publishing and delivery services supporting a diverse set of upstream and downstream clients (CMS and related editorial tools, web/mobile frontends, sitemaps, syndication, etc.). As an engineer on the team managing databases, APIs, and related technologies that propagate our content across the web, you will play a key role in supporting the growth of the company.

The Content platform at Business Insider consists of multiple independent services written primarily in JavaScript/TypeScript (with some Golang), and our primary database is MongoDB. We use AWS as our public cloud. The team commonly uses Terraform, Lambda, SNS/SQS, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS) for day to day work. In addition to publishing and delivery APIs, other platform responsibilities include: cache management, data syncing and denormalization, and various third-party integrations.

The Senior Software Engineer reports directly to the Director of Cloud Engineering and sits on the Content Platform team. This role will be based in Belfast and offers an in office or work from home / hybrid opportunity. 

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with engineers to execute business requirements and technical improvements
• Being proactive and taking ownership of key systems and projects
• Breaking down complex problems into achievable, prioritized tasks
• Taking initiative on design challenges to build robust, performant systems
• Applying engineering best practices to ensure system correctness and resilience
• Mentoring junior engineers

The Ideal Candidate Has

• Writing clean, maintainable, production-grade code in a modern programming language 
• Experience in using JavaScript/Typescript on the server.
• Understanding system architecture and downstream effects of code changes
• Clear communication (both written and verbal) 
• General knowledge of content databases (noSQL experience a bonus)
• Ability to implement unit, integration, and functional tests
• Experience in fullstack development
• Adaptable and willingness to try new tools, technologies, packages, etc. 
• Team oriented mindset

Bonus points

• Experience working with web APIs
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes
• Experience working in Golang
• Familiarity with Agile development processes
• You have worked in prior experience in the  media industry

Our engineering organisation values

• Mentoring junior developers and building a collaborative culture
• Passionate engineers who love taking the initiative with a high level of ownership
• Producing high-quality code, following and improving best practices, and identifying solutions through constructive feedback and review
• Highlighting our team's work and giving back to the tech community through tech talks, writing docs, open-source projects, and blogging

Salary & Benefits 

• Market Leading Salary: (dependent on skills, experience, and competencies)
• Hybrid flexible working - our amazing City Centre office or your home, the choice is yours.*(Candidates must reside permanently in Northern Ireland)
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Unrivalled culture and working environment with regular socials and company events
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health cash plan 
• Life assurance 
• Employee assistance programme
• Highly competitive family leave policies and access to our family benefits platform, Maven, offering support for employee preconception, pregnancy & postpartum.

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