Lead Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

HTS is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Liferay DXP, Elastic Search, and AI tools who can both lead and contribute hands-on. In this role, you will guide a small team of developers, collaborate with vendors, and drive end-to-end delivery of enterprise applications. The ideal candidate combines technical depth with leadership skills — ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.

Technical Leadership

• Lead a team of 2–3 developers, providing mentorship, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of projects.
• Define and enforce best practices for coding, security, and application performance.
• Partner with product owners to build application architecture and drive development efforts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Liferay DXP 7.4 modules, portlets, OSGi services, and custom APIs.
• Implement front-end client extensions (Remote Apps), themes, fragments, style books, master pages consistent with Liferay DXP 7.4 best practices.
• Build headless services using REST / GraphQL APIs for multi-channel content delivery.
• Work with content management features: asset libraries, metadata, display page templates, content collections, filters, pagination, etc.
• Participate in upgrades / migrations to 7.4: assess compatibility, manage database / schema changes, resolve structure / field conflicts, ensure minimal disruption.
• Optimize performance and scalability: caching strategies, search (Enterprise Search / Search Blueprints), deployment in cloud / containerized environments.
• Design and implement enterprise applications leveraging AWS cloud services, Elastic Search, and Liferay DXP.
• Contribute hands-on in Java, Python, and serverless AWS frameworks (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
• Drive CI/CD automation.
• Develop and optimize databases (Oracle, MySQL) and secure data models.
• Build web services and APIs to integrate with external systems.
• Champion DevOps best practices for continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated testing using CloudFormation, AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build.
• Ensure code quality, performance, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design, architecture diagrams, and API documentation.
• Support existing applications, reviews application architecture/design and identify opportunities to optimize (Performance, Security, Maintenance, etc.)

 

Skills:

• 8–10 years of experience in software engineering with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
• Strong expertise in AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, Code Pipeline, Code Build).
• Strong hands-on experience with Liferay DXP 7.4 in enterprise projects (preferably at least 1-2 full release cycles).
• Experience with headless development: REST APIs, GraphQL in Liferay context.
• Hands-on proficiency in Java and Python development.
• Elastic Search configuration for scalable search capabilities.
• Experience implementing and integrating AI tools in enterprise applications.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Experience with modern version control systems (GitHub)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile development environment.
• Demonstrated self-motivation, leadership, and driving capabilities.
• Motivated, self-starter, independent, results oriented and professional.
• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., JIRA, ServiceNow)
• Continuous learner with a growth mindset

Hearst is a leading global, diversified information, services, and media company dedicated to innovating, informing audiences and leading with purpose, integrity and a culture of care.

Our portfolio includes more than 360 businesses worldwide. On the consumer side, we operate 35 television stations, 28 daily newspapers and publish more than 200 magazine editions featuring many of the most iconic brands in media. We also hold ownership stakes in leading cable networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. On the business-to-business side, our companies include Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information and analytics; Hearst Health, which provides intelligence and software that improve care outcomes; and Hearst Transportation, which delivers data and software for aviation, automotive and trucking.

Our strength lies in our people. We value the diverse perspectives that move us forward. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, military or veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. We also provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees consistent with applicable law.