Description

Key responsibilities

● Own features end to end, from understanding business and operational requirements through design,

implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

● Build responsive, accessible, and maintainable web applications for CMS and Content Operations workflows.

● Design and implement backend services, APIs, integrations, and asynchronous workflows using Node.js

and/or Java.

● Develop interfaces and services for metadata management, validation, publishing, scheduling, bulk

operations, entity replication, and content administration.

● Build search, filtering, reporting, and processing-insights capabilities across content, metadata, and asset

attributes.

● Design clear and reliable API contracts between frontend applications and backend services.

● Integrate CMS with RMS and other internal content, asset, video, and platform services.

● Apply distributed-systems patterns such as retries, idempotency, timeouts, failure handling, and graceful

degradation.

● Build reusable frontend components and backend patterns that improve consistency, maintainability, and

delivery speed.

● Own production readiness, including testing, performance, resilience, security, deployment, monitoring, and

operational handoff.

● Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive reliability

improvements.

● Collaborate with Product, Design, Content Operations, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver

measurable outcomes.

● Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Skills and attributes for success:

● 3+ years of professional experience building and operating production web applications across frontend and

backend layers.

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern frontend framework, preferably React.

● Strong experience with Node.js and/or Java with a backend framework such as Spring Boot.

● Solid understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous workflows, data modeling, and service integration.

● Good understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility, browser behavior, and frontend

performance.

● Experience building complex forms, tables, search and filtering interfaces, file uploads, dashboards, and

workflow-driven applications.

● Understanding of databases, caching, messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and distributed-system

fundamentals.

● Experience with relational databases, SQL, Redis or similar caching technologies, and query-performance

tuning.

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

● Experience with unit, integration and frontend testing.

● Comfort with production observability, including logs, metrics, & error tracking.

● Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical approaches and trade-offs clearly.

● Collaborative mindset with a willingness to mentor others and share knowledge.

Preferred education and experience:

● Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of experience in backend

development

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees