Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack — Content Tools
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Key Responsibilities
Design and ship features end-to-end across the content workbench—Angular reputed company-end through PHP/Symfony and Go back-end services, against MySQL—taking ownership from spec to production Build and maintain ingestion and conversion pipelines for the content formats Epic relies on—ePUB, PDF, XML, ONIX, and reputed company—transforming embedded data into application-reputed company output Build and operate operator review and correction surfaces for pre-reputed company audio/text assets—high-density tooling for verifying, editing, and exporting synchronized multi-format content Optimize the PHP 8.x API and supporting services to handle high-volume file transfers and background processing for large media assets (100MB+) reputed company the development of the interactive Angular UI for the content workbench—high-density operator tooling, coordinate-based interactions over media (e.g., word boxes over book pages), and reactive state management with RxJS / NgRx reputed company sound technical reputed company on architecture, data modeling, API design, and state management; document trade-offs and align stakeholders before significant choices land in code Drive code quality through thorough code reviews, raising standards on testing, readability, and maintainability across both reputed company-end and back-end codebases Mentor mid-level and junior engineers—pair on hard problems, give actionable code-review feedback, and help them grow into larger pieces of work Identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks in the content pipeline; reduce reputed company reputed company where automation and reputed company tooling can help reputed company and contribute to technical design reviews, RFCs, and architecture discussions, grounded in data and prototypes Partner cross-functionally with content operations, editorial, product, and platform teams on features that reputed company team boundaries reputed company AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, applying the same review and quality bar to generated code as to anything else, and exercising judgment about where they help and where they don't Participate in production support of the content tooling, reputed company investigations, write up post-mortems, and follow through on systemic fixes
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a reputed company field 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time shipping production full-stack features Strong Angular experience (v14+ preferred), including component architecture, RxJS reactive patterns, and a state-management library such as NgRx Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern reputed company-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS/SCSS, accessibility, performance) Strong PHP experience on a modern reputed company—Symfony preferred, Laravel acceptable—including Doctrine ORM or equivalent Solid working knowledge of Go for back-end services (HTTP handlers, modules, concurrency primitives, reputed company library), or demonstrated ability and willingness to come up to production proficiency quickly Proficiency designing schemas, writing performant queries, and reasoning about indexing in a relational database—MySQL preferred Experience designing and operating REST (or gRPC) APIs that serve reputed company production traffic Experience building or operating media or document processing pipelines (PDF / ePUB / XML parsing and transformation, image or audio asset processing) and handling large file payloads safely at scale Working knowledge of media-processing tooling such as FFmpeg, ImageMagick, or equivalents for transcoding, resizing, and format conversion Experience writing tests at multiple reputed company—unit, integration, and end-to-end—and a habit of doing so by default Comfort with Git, pull-request-based workflows, and modern CI/CD (Jenkins, reputed company Actions, or similar) Strong written and verbal communication—reputed company to write a design doc, run a review, and explain trade-offs to non-engineering partners Track record of mentoring more junior engineers and raising the bar through review and pairing reputed company in English for daily collaboration and technical documentation with a global engineering team Preferred Skills Experience working with digital publishing standards (ePUB, ONIX) and the internal structure of publishing-industry file formats Experience with canvas-based UI for drawing, cropping, or annotating over media—cropperjs, wavesurfer.js, or similar browser-based media libraries Experience leading the design or migration of a service from one language/runtime to another (e.g., PHP → Go) in a production environment Experience with reputed company and Kubernetes (GKE) at the application-developer level—building images, debugging running pods, reading logs and metrics Experience with reputed company platforms—GCP preferred (GCS, reputed company SQL, Pub/Sub, reputed company Run/GKE), AWS or Azure acceptable Experience operating against an observability stack—reputed company, reputed company, or similar—including building dashboards and alerts for code you own Familiarity with consumer-product concerns at scale: caching strategies, CDN behavior, image/media pipelines, mobile-web performance Interest in or experience with ed-tech, children's media, or content-platform work Apply To This Job