Principal Software Engineer
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced full-stack Principal Software Engineer with a strong cloud engineering design background to lead engineering design and development for an architecture modernization effort for Business Wire’s industry leading press release processing system. The project requires a complete rebuild of Business Wire’s back office system, including transition from a legacy architecture to a modern, serverless technology stack, a new database platform, new REST API platform, and optimization of the system to ensure its long-term operational reliability.
- Develop engineering design and documentation for multiple components of a press release processing system, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Provide technical leadership and direct contribution to the code base using modern technology stacks, with emphasis on serverless platforms.
- Lead development of proof of concepts (POCs).
- Contribute to design of development environments, develop usage guidelines, and SDLC best practices.
- Tackle a wide variety of technical problems throughout the stack and contribute daily to all parts of our product code base.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to develop complex systems.
- Perform code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and maintainability.
- Monitor the correct implementation of engineering designs and address implementation issues.
- Identify and design solutions for performance bottlenecks across the entire application.
- Identify design and operational improvements to existing applications.
- 15+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience.
- Technical leadership experience, leading 6-10 engineers on 6+ months long projects.
- Expert level knowledge in modern programming languages and their ecosystems, including JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Java, Python or similar.
- Extensive experience in Cloud platform architectures, at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Expertise in multiple types of database and data retrieval technologies including Relational, NoSQL, GraphQL and others.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent skills in developing engineering designs and related documentation.
- Ability to work remotely
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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At Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, we are redefining how organizations connect with their audiences, and we're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead the charge! In this exciting role, you’ll be at the forefront of our architecture modernization effort for the industry-leading press release processing system, leading a talented team through a journey of transformation from a legacy architecture to a modern, serverless technology stack. You’ll leverage your 15+ years of hands-on programming experience to develop engineering design and documentation for numerous system components, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability. Not only will you contribute directly to the code base, but you'll also provide technical leadership and guide proof of concepts (POCs). Collaboration is key at Business Wire, and you will work closely with product managers, designers, and infrastructure teams to tackle complex technical challenges across the stack. Your expertise in programming languages like JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, and Java will be paramount as you monitor engineering implementations and design solutions for performance bottlenecks. If you're excited about driving impactful improvements and innovating within a supportive environment, we can’t wait to meet you!
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