Overview
Audacy's Platform Services team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, and highly-collaborative Lead for the Data Backplane group to drive the design and development of our Data Backplane with a focus on building a highly scalable, reliable, and easy to use platform. The Lead Engineer will also be responsible for mentoring team members.
The ideal candidate is a team player who is passionate about creating effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products, and backend services that are capable of evolving rapidly. We are looking for someone with experience in AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Node. We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery.
The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $130,000-$150,000. 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:
Responsibilities:
Deliver results on complex projects involving multiple teams across the company
Assist with vendor evaluation, comparative analysis, and management
Architect, prototype and develop features for our Data Backplane platform
Evangelize Event-Driven Architecture (Pub/Sub)
Building packages, services, and frameworks in support of other Audacy development teams
Support and mentor other members of the team
Deliver high-quality maintainable code
Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation
Oversee technical delivery from onshore, offshore, and nearshore consulting teams
Review work produced by consulting companies
Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
Qualifications
More About You:
Required:
8+ years of engineering experience as the back-end of full-stack developer
2+ years of experience working with Kafka
Experience implementing Event-Driven architecture
Deep understanding of Kafka clusters, partitions, and topics
Working experience scaling topics and partitions
Experience using KStreams and ksqlDB
Great written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work across environments and juggle many large initiatives with tight timelines
Hands-on experience building end-to-end software infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Testing, Logging, Monitoring
Experience writing NodeJS applications, PostgreSQL, XML, HTML, JSON
Experience building RESTful APIs
Familiar with traditional Agile methodologies: such as Scrum and Kanban
Knowledge of Git
Preferred:
Experience with Confluent Kafka
Experience with implementing APM
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 2022-4043
Category Information Technology
Type Regular
