Lead Software Engineer- Shopping

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BuzzFeed’s engineering team runs a lean, iterative development process where we deploy early and often. We're looking for an experienced engineer who can lead teams, contribute independently and work with other teams including Product, Design, and Infrastructure to deliver our products—this type of collaboration is key to our success!

BuzzFeed tech teams take pride in designing elegant, simple solutions to challenging problems, creating quality software and promoting standard methodologies for writing maintainable, well­-tested code. We need to build for scale and support millions of users globally.

About the Job

As a Lead Software Engineer you will help craft the vision and roadmap for an emerging initiative at BuzzFeed focused around Shopping and Commerce.The shopping team currently operates as a mini-start up in the tech org. You will be sitting with the market team who creates the editorial content driving revenue around products that we love and feel others should as well. This team is helping identify and build new ways for our users to engage with shopping content as consumers.  You will mentor and grow the team both technically and culturally as well as be their voice, facilitating an environment of transparency.

Learn more about BuzzFeed’s consumer product initiatives here.

We’re looking for people who have built and operated large scale and high traffic web applications and are interested in applying that experience to creating experiences using technology that respect the human element of operations.

About You

  • You are empathetic, curious, and pragmatic
  • You have emotional intelligence
  • You take initiative
  • You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • You care about “the engineering experience”
  • You mentor and facilitate the growth of the people around you
  • You carefully weigh the tradeoffs of any technology, knowing that they are simply tools that help you achieve your goals
  • You think of systems as modular and composable services
  • You take pride in discovering simple and elegant solutions to complex problems
  • You are constantly learning and re-evaluating previous assumptions
  • You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
  • You ship early & often

 

Tech Stack

  • Python / Go
  • AWS, GCP
  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Source Control (Git)
  • Databases (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Redshift, BigQuery, ElasticSearch)
  • Infrastructure Tools (Docker, ECS, Terraform)
  • Messaging systems (NSQ)
  • Monitoring / Instrumentation (Nagios, DataDog, StatsD)
  • Frontend (React, Redux, T3.js, Sass)
  • Service Oriented Architecture

 

About BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 19 cities around the world and more than 1500 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. We fuse hard work and fun through a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, and humble confidence. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world.

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