Overview
Audacy's Internal Tools and Workflow team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, and passionate Tech Lead to drive design and development of our Internal Tools platform with a focus on building a scalable content management system that supports multiple content types and content moderation publishing workflows. The Tech Lead will also be responsible for mentoring junior team members and presenting solutions to technical and engineering leadership teams.
The ideal candidate is a team player who is passionate about creating effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products, and has extensive experience in building micro-services and headless content management systems. We are looking for someone who can lead technical discussions, and build compelling presentations that clearly communicate solutions to stakeholders, technical and non-technical alike. We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery. This is a team leadership role with strong development skills needed.
The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $145,000-$155,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.
Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do:
Drive day to day technical execution of the team.
Architect, prototype and develop features.
Share the responsibility of the overall team sprint. Manage Agile processes. Run the daily standups, the sprint retrospective and the sprint planning meetings. Sprint cycles are currently 2 weeks in length.
Gather input from all stakeholders to prepare technical designs and solutions; should have a very good understanding of the project architecture
Manage internal and contractor team members and cross team dependencies. Remove any technical impediments.
Raise the education level of your team through mentorship and technical management.
Take necessary measures to avoid centralization of knowledge.
Lead by example with quality code and best practices.
Conduct code reviews and identify cross team technical dependencies.
Maintains a sense of urgency and ensures the team is consistently shipping quality code (or other deliverables).
Commit to regular 1:1s with team members - the focus is technical excellence and technical growth.
Qualifications
About You:
Required:
8+ years of engineering experience as a back-end or full-stack developer.
3+ years of technical leadership experience with a focus on people management.
3+ years of experience building frontend applications using ReactJS. A deep understanding of ReactJS functional components and TypeScript is a huge plus.
Experience writing NodeJS applications.
Experience designing relational databases, NOSQL databases as well as data structures for software architectures.
Involvement implementing an ORM or query builder such as Knex or Sequelize.
Deep understanding of RESTful API patterns.
Working Knowledge of Git or other VCS.
Familiar with traditional Agile methodologies: such as Scrum and Kanban.
Hands-on experience building end-to-end software infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, testing, logging, monitoring.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work across environments and juggle many large initiatives with tight timelines
Preferred:
Understanding of Kafka clusters, partitions, and topics.
Working Knowledge of event driven architectures.
Experience with NestJS.
Vaccination Requirements
To help promote and ensure the safety of all of our employees and the communities we serve, we require all incoming employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination, which will be kept confidential. If you are not vaccinated, or partially vaccinated currently, but willing to become fully vaccinated, we invite you to still apply.
Audacy is committed to providing a safe and inclusive work environment for all and we recognize that some individuals may have a sincerely held religious belief as it pertains to the practice of immunization or a medical disability which may prevent them from becoming vaccinated. Individuals who cannot be fully vaccinated due to a sincere religious belief or medical disability may request an accommodation. We request that you refrain from discussing religious beliefs or medical conditions during the interview process. If you believe you need an accommodation, you will have an opportunity to submit your request during the interview process. All requests for accommodation will remain confidential and reviewed by selected individuals within the HR department. We cannot guarantee that all requests for accommodation will be granted. Please refer to our EEO policy and statement below.
About Us
Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country's best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America's #1 creator of original, premium audio. Audacy engages over 170 million consumers each month, bringing people together around the news, sports, podcasts and music that matter to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com , Facebook (Audacy Corp) and Twitter (@AudacyCorp).
EEO
Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Job Locations USA-CO-Denver
ID 2022-4036
Category Information Technology
Type Regular
