[Hiring] News Software Engineer @NBCUniversal

Role Description

As a WordPress Software Engineer, you will be joining the backend team to support the digital websites, OTT, and applications for our news operations. The backend team is the powerhouse that all of the front-facing products depend on to deliver timely, reliable content. In a fast-paced news environment, urgency and a quick turnaround can be critical. You will dabble in APIs day in and day out. It’s expected that you have extensive PHP and CMS development experience (WordPress) and a good understanding of cloud computing.

• Work with WordPress, PHP, AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2) to support all Owned Television Stations digital properties
• Develop, deploy, and enhance multiple websites with a PHP-based Content Management System
• Create APIs for consumption by other teams and integrate with numerous external APIs
• Contribute to and support AI-driven initiatives, including building features powered by AI services or leveraging AI tools to improve workflows and automation
• Act as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a "do what it takes" attitude to ensure product and team success
• Analyze problems and help create innovative solutions involving technology, methodology, tool, and solution components
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, provide advice and guidance, and resolve problems to meet objectives
• Help develop new and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related technical discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience working with and staying current in the latest advances in web technologies
• Proficiency in WordPress, PHP, and AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2)
• Development experience building plugins, themes, templates, custom fields, multisite, multilingual websites, integrations, and caching implementations
• Good understanding of server-side technologies and design patterns
• Extensive experience with code versioning tools like GitHub

Requirements

• Working knowledge of CMS, preferably in a news publishing environment
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code solutions
• Experience extending WordPress’ Gutenberg editor using React and modern JavaScript
• Experience building scalable software solutions
• Experience building/optimizing RESTful APIs
• Experience leveraging AI technologies to build features and/or improve workflows
• Experience with languages like Python, SQL, etc.
• Capable of planning and writing software that enables cross-vendor integration via SDKs/APIs/etc.
• Experience with continuous integration tools and environments
• Openness to ideas and doing things differently
• Eagerness to learn new things and share ideas with peers
• Understands coding design patterns

Benefits

• Fully remote position
• Company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• A variety of other discounts and perks

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service.