Software Engineer II, KSL.com
Our company is committed to being trusted voices of light and truth reaching hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
DDM is currently seeking a strong mid-level Software Engineer to work on the team that develops KSL.com’s news website, backend content management system, and KSL Watch It live event streaming service.
The Software Engineer II will primarily be working on the KSL.com News front and backend systems, databases, admin tools, & apps. This team is responsible for maintaining the KSL.com News products and systems that allow the KSL.com news team to write, produce, edit, & manage the KSL.com News website and apps. Creating and maintaining API’s, databases, backend frameworks, ad trafficking, frontend interfaces & live streaming systems. This team is responsible for empowering the news team with the tools they need to fulfill the daily and responsive demands of a modern day newsroom and news products. This team manages and works with a wide array of services, technologies, and people that serve to deliver the overall News products for KSL.com.
This is a great opportunity for mid-level candidates looking for an opportunity to learn and grow in a physiologically safe environment helping solve many interesting problems. If this sounds exciting, apply.
These are required, you’re a candidate if you can demonstrate:
- Must have 3 or more years of job experience with web software development technologies and tools including
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (ReactJS), PHP, MySQL
- Demonstrate the ability to learn a new programming stack quickly
- Much be experienced with PHP or comparable server side scripting language
- Comfortable with Linux command line and production environment
- Good understanding of web protocols, RESTful API development, security minded programming and best practices
- Excited to learn and collaborate with others
- Good communicator and team player
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to see the big picture and be able develop and build solutions and products spanning different systems/servers with good attention to detail
It’s a bonus if you:
- Experience with React
- Experience with MongoDB
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with SASS/Less
- Experience with Linux, Apache, etc.
- Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and writing unit tests
- Experience optimizing and working with high traffic web sites using caching and scalability technologies
- Bachelor's Degree with IT or CS related emphasis or equivalent work experience
Deseret Digital Media (DDM) is the online division of Deseret Media Companies that manages properties including KSL.com, Utah.com, theMemories.com, and Agibly.com. The sites collectively reach over tens of millions of unique users and over 350 million page-views each month. The organization has a uniquely values-based mission and seeks to be strategic to its owner The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All candidates need to fully support the company’s mission statement: “To be trusted voices of light and truth reaching hundreds of millions of people worldwide.”
Why DDM?
In addition to all the standard things that happen to be great at DDM (like competitive wages, opportunity for growth and advancement, stability, and super benefits)…
- We care about our contribution to the world. We not only care about the health of the business, we care about our impact on other humans. It's right in our mission statement – more than once.
- We take work/life balance seriously. No, really. We do. We care about what we do and we expect the work to get done on time, but we know there are extremely, vitally important things about your life outside of work, and we want you to take those things just as seriously.
- Exceptional benefits, contributing 401(k) and retirement plan
This job is a great opportunity for a performance-driven, detail-oriented individual interested in a dynamic and growing organization. He or she should also be motivated by the organization’s broader mission and be able to develop relationships with all members of the team. If this sounds like you, apply today!
Deseret Digital Media is an equal opportunity employer. Deseret Digital Media provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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