Senior Backend Engineer

| Greater NYC Area | Hybrid
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ABOUT THE TEAM

theSkimm's mission is to make it easier to live a smarter life. We’re building news and information products that fit into your everyday routines, and we take a user-centric, collaborative approach while doing so. We’re best known for the Daily Skimm, an email newsletter reaching 6-Million active subscribers daily. We launched theSkimm app on iOS last year, which integrates seamlessly with your smartphone calendar to give you all the big things happening in politics, business, tech, and entertainment before and it's happening. We also launched theSkimm Studios, our in-house audio and video production team..

The tech team at theSkimm is a group of experienced, resourceful programmers who build tools throughout the tech stack, often connecting components together in innovative ways to maximize scalability and maintainability. At theSkimm, software engineers work in lockstep with product managers, designers and data analysts to devise project plans that prioritize improving our audience’s experience while balancing frequent iterations and thoughtful source code changes.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

  • Owning the development cycle for the primary applications that power theSkimm. You’ll define new components and refine existing ones as theSkimm advances on an aggressive product roadmap
  • Writing code! — business logic, request handling, multi-platform presentation, API integrations — anything necessary to turn our product dreams into realities
  • Integrating data sources, including interacting with APIs, create and maintain data schemas, and store data in our databases

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

  • At least five years experience building robust web applications
  • Familiarity supporting mobile clients through the development of internal APIs
  • Preference for writing clean, simply-expressed, practically-documented code
  • Along with smarts and humility, be a team player — serve as a collaborator and a mentor

WHAT WOULD SET YOU APART

  • Familiarity and enthusiasm for theSkimm: a passion for our audience and mission
  • Experience in the Ruby on Rails/Postgres/NGINX stack
  • Experience migrating application logic to a serverless architecture
  • Familiarity with AWS data services such as Redshift, Kinesis, and RDS

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Insurances, starting on your first day!
  • Competitive salary & equity packages alongside annual performance reviews aimed at rewarding and recognizing our diverse talents
  • A flexible vacation policy and generous holiday observances
  • 'MassMutual' 401(k) program
  • Free 'One Medical' Membership
  • Free 'Headspace' Membership
  • Subsidized family planning and fertility benefits through 'Carrot Fertility'
  • Up to $400 in annual gym-membership reimbursement
  • Collaborative office space with a mix of snacks, seltzer, caffeine and a pretty sweet roof deck
  • Catered meals and drinks during our weekly "Sip’n Skimm" all-hands meeting and twice-monthly "Skimm'e A Drink!" happy hour
  • The opportunity to be part of a friendly, hardworking and diverse group of people building a membership company that makes it easier to live smarter.

This is a full-time role based in New York, NY

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • CSSLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • SwiftLanguages
    • TypeScriptLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • CircleCIFrameworks
    • DockerFrameworks
    • JupyterFrameworks
    • KafkaFrameworks
    • Next.jsFrameworks
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • PlaywrightFrameworks
    • Ruby on RailsFrameworks
    • TerraformFrameworks
    • MJMLFrameworks
    • AWS RedshiftDatabases
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • AWS (Amazon Web Services)Services
    • GitHubServices
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • LookerAnalytics
    • AmplitudeAnalytics
    • CanvaDesign
    • FigmaDesign
    • IllustratorDesign
    • MiroDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • Google DocsManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • WordpressCMS
    • SalesforceCRM
    • Google HangoutsCollaboration
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • AsanaProject Management

Location

53 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010

What are theSkimm Perks + Benefits

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Day off for your birthday
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Summer hours
Flexible work schedule
theSkimm provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes Summer hours, Flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Wellness days
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
theSkimm matches full-time employees 100% on the first 5% deferred into their 401(K), capped at 2% per year. This match begins after one year of employment.
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
18 weeks of paid family leave (adoption, fostering, surrogacy included) for both primary and secondary caregivers
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Sabbatical
One fully paid month sabbatical when a full-time employee reaches five years at theSkimm
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Bereavement leave benefits
Hardship benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Pre-tax benefits offered through Navia for parking and transit
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Mother's room
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
theSkimm offers employees professional development opportunities like Onsite training courses.
Tuition reimbursement
theSkimm offers a stipend to full-time employees to be used toward any training or resources pertaining to an employee's job-related responsibilities, skills enhancement, or professional development.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours

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