Job Description

Senior Software Engineer Content Management CBSSports

Join CBS Digital and shape the future of sports news media through cuttingedge content management platforms and deeply personalized fan experiences across mobile web and digital platforms We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a key member of our Content Management engineering team

What You Will Do

Architect Backend Services Design and develop new businessled content management services and APIs with an emphasis on performance scalability and reliability

Drive FullStack Solutions Work closely with DevOps on backend solutions to complex problems ensuring scale and availability across our content platforms

Build CMS Infrastructure Develop services and APIs that enable editors to create visuallyrich and datadriven content experiences and streamline backend workflows so stakeholders can produce more content quicker

Integrate AIML Integrate content classification MLAI processes and pipelines to better annotate video and image assets enabling smarter aggregation and distribution

Modernize Legacy Systems Upgrade and migrate existing legacy backend services into modern frameworks and adapt and optimize current systems for deployment on cloudbased infrastructure

Platform Consolidation Facilitate better content distribution and aggregation within the various business units and contribute to consolidating distinct CMS platforms used across the organization

Operational Excellence Provide engineering support to stakeholders ensuring a high level of service availability with appropriate testing monitoring observability and alerting

Data Modeling Model complex data flows and schemas for transactional and integration workflows powering editorial and consumerfacing experiences

Collaborate and Prototype Work closely within a small engineering group partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design develop and prototype solutions to key business challenges

Mentor and Document Contribute to clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams Review code to ensure adherence to best practices style testability efficiency

Required Qualifications

CMS Backend Strong PHP development experience and deep familiarity with the Symfony framework Composer package management and Twig templating engine

API Experience 3 years experience designing and writing contentdriven GraphQL and REST APIs in microservicesbased architectures

Data Search Strong SQL skills and handson experience with popular opensource RDBMS plus search technology such as Solr or Elasticsearch

Cloud Containers Experience with cloud architecture ideally AWS and production experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Engineering Fundamentals Excellent understanding of ObjectOriented Programming and Design with strong ability to architect and develop enterpriselevel applications and backend systems

Stakeholder Collaboration Ability to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional stakeholders in a dynamic fastpaced environment

Process Tooling Experience working with agile processes and version control systems Git

Education Experience BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

3 years of experience building scalable productiongrade backend services and content platforms

Strong proficiency in serverside languages asynchronous programming and modern objectoriented design patterns

Experience designing and consuming APIs REST and GraphQL in microservicesbased architectures

Experience modeling complex data flows and schemas for transactional and integration workflows

Experience working with cloud platforms AWS GCP or OCI and containerized environments Docker Kubernetes

Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching Redis Memcached and messaging systems Kafka RabbitMQ

Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills including use of monitoringobservability tools

Soft Skills Strong initiative creative thinking and the ability to work in a collaborative innovative flexible and teamoriented environment Excellent written and verbal communication skills Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences

Preferred Qualifications

CMS Exposure Exposure to popular proprietary or opensource CMS systems such as WordPress Drupal Joomla or Magento

Additional Languages Exposure to Golang andor Rust for performancecritical services

Cloud Focus 3 years working with cloud technologies AWS is strongly preferred

Certifications Cloud certifications AWS GCP OCI

Frontend Skills Working knowledge of Nodejs TypeScript and ReactNextjs sufficient to collaborate on fullstack features and contribute to shared tooling

Web Fundamentals Familiarity with HTML CSS layout specificity crossbrowser compatibility