Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Meridian Review Group is an international publishing, research and intelligence group covering business, markets, investment, technology and economic change. The Software Engineer will build and scale shared publishing platforms, reader-facing products, structured databases, APIs, data pipelines, research tools and editorial technology across multiple publications. The role involves improving performance, reliability, SEO, analytics, automation and infrastructure for a growing global network.
Responsibilities
- Building new reader-facing products and features
- Improving the shared Meridian publishing platform
- Building infrastructure that allows us to launch new publications efficiently
- Creating tools for journalists, editors and researchers
- Building structured company, executive, industry and economic databases
- Developing market-data infrastructure
- Creating stock and company information products
- Building APIs and data pipelines
- Integrating external financial and economic datasets
- Building ranking and index products
- Developing systems for original Meridian research
- Improving article discovery and recommendation
- Building stronger topic, company, sector and geographic architecture
- Developing search and research functionality
- Improving technical SEO and Core Web Vitals
- Building entity-based internal linking systems
- Developing automated publishing and editorial workflows
- Creating internal monitoring and intelligence tools
- Building systems to monitor data freshness and accuracy
- Automating indexing, canonical, redirect and orphan-page audits
- Improving analytics and understanding how readers interact with the network
- Experimenting with AI-assisted research, classification and editorial tooling
- Building future subscription and premium research products
- Developing infrastructure for advertisers and commercial products
Skills
- Have built real production software used by real users
- Are comfortable moving between frontend and backend problems
- Can understand an unfamiliar codebase quickly
- Care about performance, reliability and maintainability
- Think about scale rather than only immediate implementation
- Understand databases and structured information
- Enjoy solving ambiguous problems rather than only executing predefined tickets
- Can explain technical trade-offs to non-engineers
- Are interested in publishing, markets, research, data or information products
- Understand that SEO can be an engineering problem as much as a marketing problem
- Know when a simple solution is better than an elaborate one
- Are comfortable working asynchronously with an internationally distributed team
- Like experimenting, but can distinguish useful experimentation from unnecessary complexity
- Are interested in building systems that may eventually serve millions of users
- Experience building SaaS products, research platforms, financial products, data products, marketplaces, content systems or startup products could all translate particularly well
- Strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity and the ability to learn quickly matter considerably more than having every technology on your CV
- Experience building SaaS products, research platforms, financial products, data products, marketplaces, content systems or startup products could all translate particularly well
Benefits
- Fully remote work option
- Internationally distributed team with remote and asynchronous collaboration
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