Senior Software Engineer

VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment, and they are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Sr. Software Engineer to join their Engineering team. The role focuses on delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality digital products by contributing to the design, development, and evolution of technology platforms using modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems in continuous delivery environment
• Write clean, modular and maintainable code with unit test coverage
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns to accelerate development velocity across the team
• Take ownership of your work and deliver high-quality results
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Help influence and prioritize work to enable efficient, iterative delivery
• Translate high-level strategies into actionable engineering tasks in partnership with product and engineering leadership
• Identify bottlenecks and system constraints, and proactively drive solutions
• Reduce technical debt and improve developer experience to keep systems modern, fast, and maintainable
• Produce technical documentation, schematics, and architecture diagrams
• Advocate for and implement best practices in testing, code quality, performance, and tooling
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Use monitoring, metrics, and logging to troubleshoot and resolve production issues with your team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of technical expertise including recent experience architecting, designing and developing technology platforms using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript, and Type Script
• 3+ years of experience working with relational and NoSQL database platforms (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Some experience with modern caching technologies (Redis preferred)
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team in a collaborative, team-driven agile software engineering environment
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud environments, including familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and design patterns
• Ability to work across multiple technologies and platforms
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable code
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Vuetify, or Angular
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Experience with background processing tools like Sidekiq
• Strong understanding of service-oriented and/or microservices architectures (event-driven patterns are a plus)
• Ability to contribute and grow - team-oriented mindset with strong intellectual curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI/ML capabilities into products or engineering workflows
• Experience with and developing for Raspberry PI platform
• Experience developing mobile applications for IOS/Android
• Experience working in high-availability, high-traffic production environments
• Experience developing or integration with movie theater or entertainment systems
• Experience developing Point of Sale, F&B, Ticketing, Inventory or Order Management Systems
• Experience working with CRM, Loyalty and Membership solutions
• Experience integrating payment platforms, including EMV and card reader integrations
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools
• Understanding of the mindset of 'Fail Fast, Learn Fast' and continuous improvement