About the Role
iHeartMedia is seeking a talented full stack developer to build the next generation of programming, playout, and content delivery systems for radio, streaming, and digital platforms. This high-visibility role offers significant growth opportunities, working closely with the tech lead and Manager of Software Engineering to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain cloud-based web applications and their APIs.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship high-quality software components using object-oriented and component-based patterns, with an emphasis on reuse, test-driven development, and automation.
- Build new features and enhancements for existing products, from intermediate to highly complex in scope.
- Write, test, and deploy React front ends and Node.js/TypeScript back ends, along with the supporting serverless infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Architects to translate business and customer requirements into detailed technical designs and component specifications.
- Deliver software with minimal defects; identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues quickly.
- Estimate level of effort and contribute to planning for new features and system changes.
- Identify technical risks early and work with the team on mitigation plans.
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for smooth, fast, and reliable releases.
- Support and troubleshoot code running on edge devices deployed in the field.
- Utilize monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to maintain system health and proactively identify issues.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in front end, back end, or full stack web development.
- Solid grounding in Agile principles and QA methodologies.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
- Experience building UIs with React.
- Experience with AWS serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM, SQS, Docker, etc.).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation, ideally with AWS CodePipeline and CDK.
- Familiarity with CloudWatch (or similar) for monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding.
- Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB) and relational databases (Postgres or MySQL).
- Experience with event-driven message-based integrations.
- Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills across a variety of hardware and software environments.
- Experience profiling and tuning applications for CPU/memory efficiency.
- A track record of writing maintainable, extensible, future-proof code.
- Experience with end-to-end and user acceptance testing in an Agile context.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently and collaboratively within a team.
Skills
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- AWS serverless architectures
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Deployment automation
- CloudWatch
- NoSQL
- MongoDB
- Postgres
- MySQL
- Event-driven message-based integrations
- Debugging
- Troubleshooting
- Application profiling
- Application tuning
- Maintainable code
- Extensible code
- Future-proof code
- End-to-end testing
- User acceptance testing
- Agile methodologies
- QA methodologies
- Object-oriented patterns
- Component-based patterns
- Test-driven development
- Automation
- CI/CD pipelines
- Python (for data science or AI/ML workloads - a plus)
- Audio/media files and streams (a strong plus)
- Edge or field-deployed devices (a plus)
Location
- Austin, TX: 5001 Plaza On the Lake, Suite 105, 78746
Work Type
- Full time
- Salaried
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience in front end, back end, or full stack web development
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $100,000
Benefits
- Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
- Company provided and supplemental life insurance
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Paid company holidays
- A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
- A 401K plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost
- A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!
About the Company
- iHeartMedia is the number one audio company in America, reaching 90% of Americans monthly.
- We are the largest podcast publisher and a leader in live music events.
- Our social media footprint is significantly larger than other audio services.
- We possess the only complete audio ad technology stack in the industry.
- Our company values collaboration, curiosity, welcoming dissent, accepting mistakes in pursuit of new ideas, and respect for everyone.
- We are committed to providing a range of programming that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
Equal Opportunity
- The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.
- Non-Compete will be required for certain positions and as allowed by law.
- Our organization participates in E-Verify.
