Hearst Television reaches more than 25 million people across the US every month on its 27 local digital properties connected to loved and trusted brands like WCVB – Boston, KCRA – Sacramento and WESH – Orlando, to name a few. We’re crafting new, elegant digital experiences that make our local news that matters come to life across all platforms and devices. Check out our recent native app re-launch by searching WTAE in the Apple and Google stores. We’re unifying our publishing tools and user experiences to enable talented editorial teams to tell more engaging stories more often. We’re creating a game-changing modern content technology stack – built from the ground up to give our users, editors, and advertisers tools that enable them to tell these amazing stories. We’re using modern web technologies to do this, like Python, PHP and memcached. We’re building an open, service-oriented platform driven by APIs, and believe passionately in crafting simple, elegant solutions to complex technological and product problems. We’re looking for talented and passionate software engineers to solve problems as we build out our new platform. The ideal candidates have extensive experience working with distributed, service oriented architecture (SOA) systems, writing clean object-oriented code, have worked with RESTful APIs and cloud based environments like AWS.

REMOTE, GREATER USA WITH SOME PREFERENCE TO SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON, DC AND ORLANDO METROS

Responsibilities

• Be part of the team that will build Hearst TV’s content platform
• Participate in software design discussions
• Write expressive code that is efficient and extensible
• Be an active part of a larger internal open source community of developers at Hearst
• Be ready to adapt and extend the architectural plan as new product goals and technical challenges emerge in our agile, continuous development environment