Tech Lead, Backend

Job Description

Overview

Location: Denver (hybrid), Philadelphia (hybrid), or Remote

Known for our outstanding voices across the US, Audacy is the premier provider of local, spoken word, and premium audio content. For technical talent, we have created a team that leverages new toolsets, develops collaboratively with business stakeholders, and is pushing the boundaries of audio every day.

You listen to Audacy content all of the time…and may not know how much more incredible audio content we offer including: podcasts, news & sports talk radio, and amazing music stations. As a leader in all-things-audio, Audacy is transforming the listening experience through innovation and interactivity–and you may be just the person to join our team to help us do this!

Description

The Amperwave team at Audacy powers all streaming, adtech, and podcasting experiences for our listeners. Keyword ''experiences''. Everything we do in our group relates to our mission to deliver a world-class audio experience, which includes music, podcasts, sports, news, and so much more!
Our team is growing and looking for the right tech lead to join us. We work together everyday to do things that matter, leave things better than when we started, and always keep our user's experience in mind. You will have the opportunity to use your technical experience to lead our podcasting and streaming backend applications that hundreds of our radio stations use daily to power everything we do. Our remote team has an inclusive culture with a commitment to work life balance.

We are developers and we understand what developers need. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to new ideas, learn new technologies, and architect new features. Friendly code reviews make us all better and you get to be a part of that by both reviewing

code and having yours reviewed. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too!

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
• Start on the team as our lead engineer, learning the code and contributing. Once we have foundations down, you will elevate to a tech lead and start driving the technical and people leadership of the team.
• Someone who puts the team first to unblock, train, motivate, and create a positive team culture.
• Own the software release processes and pipelines.
• Perform tech feasibilities and prep work for the team.
• Document processes and share with the team.
• Ability to break technical concepts down and share with non-technical stakeholders.
• Assess daily and weekly team objectives and monitor output.
• Identify team bottlenecks in any area and work with the respective stakeholders to solve them.
• Partner with all teams and create clear lines of communication.
• Lead architecture and development decisions for our features.
• Work with Jira, our bug tracking and project management software.
• Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

Qualifications

More About You:
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including data structures, OOP, time complexity analysis, and code refactoring/reusability.
• 2+ years acting as a hands-on tech lead, or senior engineer, with a desire to grow your technical and people management experience.
• 2+ years experience in agile software project management.
• Experience with modern front-end and back-end technologies: React, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js/Express, MySQL, PHP, and GoLang.
• Experience with a statically typed and/or concurrent programming language is a plus.
• Understanding of the entire software development life cycle.
• Experience architecting and developing microservices and APIs.
• A proven history of getting things done.
• Experience with enterprise level software.
• Experience with podcast specifications such as RSS and iTunes is a plus.
• Experience in unit testing and/or test-driven development is a plus.
• Understanding of the radio, podcast, and audio advertising industries is a plus.
• Experience with audio streaming standards such as HLS is a plus.

The Technology Team at Audacy is an organization that has leaned-in to hybrid and remote work, having leaders and team members across the country. Our technical centers of excellence exare in some of the best cities to live in (Denver and Philadelphia) and we pride ourselves in building amazing products, participating in local service with Audacy, and keeping our culture at the heart of our employee experience.

At Audacy, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to new ideas, learn new technologies and design new features. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too.

If you love audio and building incredible software, then we are the place for you!

Additional Information

Pay Transparency and Application Deadline:

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $145k-$155K, target 10% bonus.

Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

We antipicate closing application submissions for this job on 9/15/24. If we extend the deadline we will be sure to update this job posting online Important Notes:

Please be aware that Audacy will never ask you to send money at any point during the hiring process. Communication from legitimate Audacy representatives will only come from email addresses ending in @audacy.com. If you receive any suspicious requests or communications, please verify their authenticity before responding. About Us

Audacy, Inc. is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company that connects with 200 million consumers. Powered by its exclusive, premium audio content that includes unrivaled leadership positions in news and sports radio, Audacy operates one of the country's two scaled radio broadcasting groups, a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer digital audio platform, multiple audio networks, a major event business and a leading, award-winning podcast studio. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:
- Start on the team as our lead engineer, learning the code and contributing. Once we have foundations down, you will elevate to a tech lead and start driving the technical and people leadership of the team.
- Someone who puts the team first to unblock, train, motivate, and create a positive team culture.
- Own the software release processes and pipelines.
- Perform tech feasibilities and prep work for the team.
- Document processes and share with the team.
- Ability to break technical concepts down and share with non-technical stakeholders.
- Assess daily and weekly team objectives and monitor output.
- Identify team bottlenecks in any area and work with the respective stakeholders to solve them.
- Partner with all teams and create clear lines of communication.
- Lead architecture and development decisions for our features.
- Work with Jira, our bug tracking and project management software.
- Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g68o2j-18-188-253-166-42 in your application.