Staff Software Engineer, Front End

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About the Job:

BuzzFeed is looking for a lead level Frontend Engineer to help build new features for Tasty along with newer brands like Goodful, As/Is, Playfull, Nifty, and Bring Me.. Our team consists of product managers, designers, data scientist and backend/frontend engineers split between our New York and Minneapolis offices. You will act as a technical mentor to other engineers and lead in technical decisions with your engineering manager.

About the Products:

Tasty launched in July 2015 on Facebook and now reaches over 500 million people a month. We are expanding the reach of Tasty beyond Facebook and are building a feature-rich, easily accessible experience around Tasty content for Tasty’s biggest, most enthusiastic fans. This team will bring a deep, branded experience onto our new owned and operated Tasty website and mobile apps. The team also works closely with BuzzFeed’s commerce and business teams, supporting new affiliate commerce projects and foundational ad product technology.

What you’ll do

  • Lead technical initiatives and day-to-day operations of your team
  • Play a defining role in the creation of new products across media brands (ex. Goodful, As/Is, Playfull, Nifty)
  • Contribute your Javascript knowledge to add functionality to our applications that get millions of page views a day.
  • Collaborate with product, design, data science, and other partners to grow both active users and revenue by A/B testing new features
  • You’ll architect features requiring integration with new or existing back-end services
  • You’ll write high-quality code and tests to create reliable services

About BuzzFeed tech stack

We know that good engineers come from a variety of backgrounds and languages – if you don’t already know these languages, we trust that you’ll learn.

  • Our frontend currently includes React, Google AMP framework, Sass
  • Our backend services are written in Python, with some Go.
  • Monitoring / Instrumentation is a combination of Datadog and Sentry
  • We believe in ownership over the entire engineering cycle - the same engineers architect, build, test, deploy, monitor, and run their services using containers on AWS/GCP

Life at BuzzFeed

At BuzzFeed, we believe our work benefits from the diverse perspectives of our employees. As such, BuzzFeed celebrates inclusion and is committed to equal opportunity employment. As a BuzzFeed employee, you can expect:

  • A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth via work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, Employee Resource Groups, and more
  • An attractive compensation package, including salary and equity
  • A generous and well-rounded benefits program featuring PTO and sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more
  • No shortage of snacks, catered lunches, beverages, birthday treats... even leftovers from the Tasty kitchens in NYC!
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