Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hearst Magazines' Bring a Trailer is part of the Hearst Autos family and operates a community-driven marketplace for classic, collector, and enthusiast vehicles. The Software Engineer will build and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows while modernizing the platform and integrating with legacy WordPress and PHP systems. The role also involves collaborating across teams, troubleshooting production issues, improving reliability, and contributing to a serverless engineering architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, and SQS in TypeScript
- Develop modern features that integrate seamlessly with existing WordPress and PHP systems while supporting the ongoing migration to a serverless architecture
- Build secure, scalable API endpoints, event handlers, synchronization services, and background processing workflows that deliver reliable customer and internal experiences
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Quality Assurance, and Engineering partners during six-week development cycles to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Practice Spec-Driven Development (SDD) by translating product requirements into well-defined technical specifications, automated tests, and measurable outcomes
- Leverage AI coding agents effectively by providing clear guidance, critically reviewing generated code, validating edge cases, and ensuring production-quality implementations
- Troubleshoot production issues across cloud services and legacy integration points, identify root causes, and implement automated testing to prevent regressions
- Participate in code reviews, contribute to engineering documentation, infrastructure as code, observability improvements, and the team's on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability
Skills
- 3–5+ years of experience developing production software, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong experience building backend services, APIs, and asynchronous applications using TypeScript and Node.js
- Hands-on experience developing cloud-native applications using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, and related serverless services
- Working knowledge of PHP and familiarity reading and understanding WordPress applications, plugins, REST APIs, and data models
- Understanding of database design, DynamoDB data modeling, and relational databases such as MySQL
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code with strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate effectively within a remote, collaborative engineering team and work successfully across technical and non-technical partners
- This is a remote role and may be performed from one of the following states: CA, CO, DE, FL, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA, WA, or WI
- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, Terraform, SAM, or Serverless Framework), CI/CD pipelines, event-driven architectures, observability tools, React, or AI-assisted development workflows
Benefits
- Collaborate with top-tier professionals across media, advertising, tech, fashion, lifestyle, and publishing, shaping the future of these dynamic industries.
- Access to innovative training programs, immersive workshops, and exclusive industry events.
- Flexibility of hybrid work, empowering you to balance professional success with personal priorities.
- Join our Employee Resource Groups and help create a welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance from Day 1.
- A 401(k) plan with a generous company match.
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