Software Engineer, Editorial

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The Opportunity:

Shutterstock is looking for top technologists to join our team and help drive the future of our platform on our Editorial team. You will be working with highly motivated and extremely talented engineers on backend services with quality, performance and scale in mind at every step of the way. Our core belief is that the customers are our number one priority so we work hard to deliver value back to them with everything we do. We believe strongly in team ownership of systems, which includes defining the vision of the services to prioritization of projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Contributing to all aspects of the services under the team’s ownership, which includes design, implementation, refactoring, automated testing, deployment, and uptime of the services.
  • Helping other team members grow as engineers through code review, pairing, and mentoring.
  • Improving internal team processes by keeping what's working, throwing away what's not.
  • Collaborating on the vision of the services under the team's ownership.
  • Building the technology the right way: for us, this means simple, well-tested systems that gradually grow over time, and that provide plenty of insight into production performance.
  • Engineers are expected to support systems they develop in production which involves oncall. The actual periods and frequency varies by team.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of relevant software development experience
  • Front-end software development experience
  • Very strong knowledge of how the Web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, etc)
  • Experience building and designing highly scalable services, and RESTful API’s that power multiple consumers.
  • Experience with SOA architecture working on distributed/high trafficked systems.
  • Familiarity with at least on RDBMS
  • Ability to craft simple and elegant solutions to complex problems.
  • Solid software development fundamentals (Data Structures, algorithms, problem solving, OO Design, and system architecture).
  • Passionate about what you do and care deeply about the things you build.
  • Able to clearly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience programming in at least one OO language
  • Has a good understanding of continuous delivery, writing unit tests and automated testing.
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related experience

Bonus Skills:

  • Node.js web development experience
  • Ruby development experience
  • Experience with automated configuration tools like Puppet, Chef or Ansible
  • Experience building event-driven or message-driven architecture using tools like RabbitMQ and Kafka.
  • Experience working in an agile environment

About Shutterstock:

Shutterstock, a global technology company, has created the largest and most vibrant two-sided marketplace for creative professionals to license content - including images, videos, and music - as well as innovative tools that power the creative process.

The company has expanded its portfolio to include Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; and Webdam, a cloud-based digital asset management platform for businesses, as well as Offset, a high-end image collection.

For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com, follow Shutterstock on TwitterFacebook and Instagram.

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V

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