Refinery29 is the fastest growing independent media platform for women in the US, covering topics ranging from beauty and global fashion to politics and breaking news. You may only know us for our website, but our fast-growing Product & Engineering team is over 60 people strong and is a hub of innovation. Did you know Refinery29 has two iOS apps (ThisAM and AltMoji)? Did you know we’re on Amazon Echo, or that we’ve built a suite of custom authoring tools used daily by 300+ writers, illustrators, photographers and videographers? Did you know we host an annual celebration of art and technology (29 Rooms)?

Behind all of these things there’s a talented group of people: R29 Engineers.

The Creator Team at Refinery29 is responsible for enterprise-grade content creation tools that support the seamless retrieval of photos and videos, word processing, and real-time messaging. Your work will make a real difference in allowing our authors to fluidly express themselves; you’ll be improving workflows and enhancing our ability to create powerful, engaging stories. Current projects include a top of the line Story Composer and an information-rich Media Library being built from the ground up using ReactJS, Redux and other leading-edge technologies. Our tech stack includes ReactJS, Node.js, modern PHP, MySQL and Redis.

About the Creator Team:

Our growing team - currently eight developers - has a mix of Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, and Staff Engineers. We strive to be a diverse team and place great emphasis on respect, collaboration, and communication. We value knowledge sharing and being the tide that lifts all boats. We genuinely enjoy our work! It’s exciting to build tools that directly help our authors connect with our readers.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a modular, API-driven platform leveraging tools like React, Redux and Node
• Build scalable storage and indexing systems for retrieving content produced by our burgeoning editorial and creative teams
• Be a thought leader for great architectures, design patterns and software development processes
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, contribute to constructive dialog, mentor other developers, and share knowledge to raise the bar for the whole team
• Work closely with product managers, UX and QA throughout discovery, planning and implementation while owning the full software development lifecycle
• Champion usability and design consistency in our tools and augment our custom-built UI library
• Proactively measure, test and optimize performance of our user-facing and back-end systems

Qualifications:

We're looking for curious, intelligent, dedicated engineers with great communication skills who are excited to take editorial workflow and content creation at Refinery29 to the next level. Bonus points if you have shipped applications with large user-bases, have experience coding complex user interfaces, and/or have a C.S. degree. You’ll be working in a small, fast-paced developer team making a big impact at a fast-growing company.

Things we think you’ll like:

1. Great work-life balance, yes - we mean it!
2. Weekly all-hands meetings where VPs of Product and Engineering answer your questions.
3. Opportunities to contribute to all parts of the stack, whether you consider yourself front-end, backend, or full-stack.
4. Us! We’re a great team and we’re looking forward to meeting you