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Job Description

I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives.

Meredith is seeking talented, innovative software engineers to join our Platform Engineering team. The team's charter is to provide a robust application and service architecture which enables content creation, enhancement, and distribution through a single, centrally managed content platform. Engineering focus areas include editorial tools, media ingestion, video, storage, data enhancement, distribution, user profiles, authentication, search, and content personalization. The team owns an ecosystem that is critical to Meredith's content business across editorial and engineering teams creating web, video, and print content.

Responsibilities:

The software engineer needs to be a highly motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic person with a sharp mind who works well under pressure and thrives in an atmosphere of rapid and iterative design and development. You must be comfortable working collaboratively with stakeholders and have a strong desire and ability to deliver innovative solutions to complex problems.

• Work closely with engineers creating editorial tools, web and mobile experiences.


• Implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions.


• Own production services, investigate and resolve issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies.


• Provide thorough and readable documentation for all services.


• Develop APIs that allow new content sources to be processed, enhanced, and made available to customers.

• Collaborate closely with other engineers, designers, and product managers to define innovative ways to improve services and reduce costs.


• Participate in technical mentorship with engineers on the team by performing thorough code reviews, pairing, and ad hoc reviews of proposed solutions.


• Work with your team to share and establish best practices.


• Demonstrate passion for code quality and lead by example to produce high quality, complex services and applications under tight timelines.

II. Essential Job Functions

Weight % Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

75% Write Good Code

Continuously improve our intellectual property, code pipeline, and processes in a performant and extensible fashion. Build out features and sustaining work for high-traffic websites, APIs, and enterprise systems.

15% Collaborate Effectively

Work closely with team members, product management, and internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and envision strong technical solutions.

10% Grow Your Career

Actively participate in system reviews, code reviews, training, and individual learning opportunities to further your career and effectiveness.

100%

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Education:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.

Experience:

1-3 years of professional software development experience.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience building applications deployed on AWS and the process to manage large data sets.


• Familiarity with cloud technologies, REST, microservice architecture, monitoring, and the tenants of horizontal scalability.


• Experience developing complex and highly available services running in a production environment.


• Extensive knowledge of object oriented and functional software design patterns, including those commonly used by large scale search and recommendation engines.


• Proven experience developing and owning production services and applications deployed in AWS leveraging continuous integration and codified infrastructure.


• Experience using at least 2 of the following: Java, .NetCore, Node.js, Python, JavaScript ES7, Elasticsearch, and Docker containers.


• Knowledge of NoSQL data stores, graph databases, indexing, distributed locking and media transformation.


• Experience working in an Agile environment.


• Ability to translate user stories into technical tasks.


• Ability to estimate effort effectively.


• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.

% Travel Required (Approximate): NA

It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailingMeredith.Human.Resources@meredith.com.

Meredith requires employees entering its workplaces or performing work offsite to verify and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. This is a condition of employment unless an applicant is eligible, under applicable law, for a medical or religious accommodation, or as otherwise required under applicable law.

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