News Software Engineer- WordPress

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. As a WordPress Software Engineer, you will support the digital websites, OTT, and applications for news operations, working with the backend team to deliver timely and reliable content.

Responsibilities:

• You will work with WordPress, PHP, AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2) to support all Owned Television Stations digital properties
• Develop, deploy and enhance multiple websites with a PHP-based Content Management System
• Create APIs for consumption by other teams and integrate with numerous external APIs
• Contribute to and support AI-driven initiative, including building features powered by AI services or leveraging AI tools to improve workflows and automation
• Act as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a "do what it takes" attitude to ensure product and team success
• Analyze problems and help create innovative solutions involving technology, methodology, tool and solution components
• Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, provide advice and guidance, and resolve problems to meet objectives
• Help develop new and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related technical discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience working with and staying current in the latest advances in web technologies
• Proficiency in WordPress, PHP, and AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2)
• Development experience building plugins, themes, templates, custom fields, multisite, multilingual websites, integrations and caching implementations
• Good understanding of server-side technologies and design patterns
• Extensive experience with code versioning tools like GitHub
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Working knowledge of CMS, preferably in a news publishing environment
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code solutions
• Experience extending WordPress' Gutenberg editor using React and modern JavaScript
• Experience building scalable software solutions
• Experience building/optimizing RESTful APIs
• Experience leveraging AI technologies to build features and/or improve workflows
• Experience with languages like Python, SQL etc
• Capable of planning and writing software that enables cross-vendor integration via SDKs/APIs/etc
• Experience with continuous integration tools and environments
• Openness to ideas and doing things differently
• Eagerness to learn new things and share ideas with peers
• Understands coding design patterns