Senior Software Engineer
COMPANY PROFILE:
Our client is the world’s premier digital media investment company, owns and operates over 25 highly authoritative brands across various verticals, including entertainment, sports, technology, automotive, gaming, and travel. Specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing properties that are mission-critical in their respective environments, and they are at the forefront of media investment.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The gaming division of this company is looking for a skilled and motivated Sr Software Engineer to join a dynamic, cross-functional development team. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a passion for working in a fast-paced environment.
As a Sr Software Engineer, you will work closely with the development and gaming teams to build tools and features that support websites that cover the gaming industry.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for new development and maintaining all high traffic sites to optimal performance levels.
- Developing CMS features for multidisciplinary teams for their day to day operations.
- Play an active role in the analysis phase when defining the features with the tech lead.
- Improving code performance and core web vitals for the web pages
- In charge of maintaining all of the digital assets for optimal loading time using the latest technologies in order to have optimal code and programming standards.
- Maintain strong knowledge about the latest web development standards and development tools.
PREFERRED PROFILE:
- 5+ years experience as a back-end developer.
- Experience working with high traffic websites
- Experience with Core Web Vitals optimisation
- Strong knowledge of Javascript is a must!
- Experience with single page application and ajax
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming.
- Strong knowledge of modularization and library development approach
- LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP)
Technical assets:
- BitBucket, JIRA, GIT, PHPStorm, Jenkins.
- Shell Script (Bash).
- Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, SCSS.
- Good understanding of SEO practice / Google Analytics / Google page speed.
LOCATION: New York City, NY
Job ID# 2761475
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