Backend Software Engineer, Red Ventures
The Points Guy
$100-150k
Media and publishing company
Open for applications
Media and publishing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$100-150k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To partner with brands in order to connect customers with the products and services they need most.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of software development experience
- AWS experience
- Our backend stacks include Typescript/node.js, Java, and AWS Cloud services. Production experience with Typescript, node.js, Java, and/or similar languages and frameworks
- Strong understanding of software design patterns, object oriented programming, functional programming concepts, and software architecture
- Experience designing and building APIs for a variety of clients
- Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs
- Knowledge of databases, data modeling, query optimization, and caching. Postgres experience is a plus
- Experience in unit testing
- Experience with a CI/CD pipeline
Desirable
- Constant curiosity and a desire to improve yourself and your colleagues
- Experience with a variety of API paradigms such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Webhooks, Websockets, event-driven architectures
- Experience with Terraform
- Familiarity with modern application design, such as serverless, event-based, and functional architectures
- Experience building services that support both web and mobile app clients
- Experience with agile methodologies
- Interest in both frontend and backend development
- Familiarity with the travel industry and experience with the points and miles hobby
What the job involves
- The Points Guy, a Division of Red Ventures, is looking for a talented Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, NC, New York, NY or Puerto Rico
- We’re looking for experienced, professional engineers with go-anywhere, do-anything attitudes to build value for our customers and our team. Yes, you should write clean, performant, testable code in a variety of languages across our microservices. But you’ll also dive into logs and metrics with our Platform Engineering team and take responsibility for the way your code performs in the cloud
- You’ll pair up with automation engineers to isolate and eliminate bugs
- You’ll collaborate with our security team for audits and penetration tests
- You’ll talk with product management to align code to customers’ needs
- You’ll sync with data analysts and data scientists to build rich AI-enabled experiences and make sure we can build a clear understanding of how to improve our products
- You’ll have the opportunity to present interesting work and celebrate wins at our biannual internal tech conferences
- Write excellent code on the platform and services that power Red Ventures’ travel businesses. Look out at the world of flights, hotels, upgrades, loyalty status, stopovers, credit cards, points and miles. Build tools to make it computable and help our customers optimize their travel habits
- Figure out how to best scale, secure, maintain, and extend the platform
- Metrics. Monitoring. Profiling. Analytics
- Collaborate with the product management team and other developers to deliver a quality product that meets business needs
- Work together with QA to squash any bugs
Our take
Red Ventures was founded in 2000, shortly before the dot-com bubble burst. It survived the crash, however, and has grown into one of America's biggest digital media companies. Its brands include Lonely Planet, Healthline and TV Guide.
The company was last valued at around $11 billion, which is evidence that its focus on momentum and adaptability has proven successful. Red Ventures is one of the major companies leading the shift towards intent-based media. It has acquired a range of specialist sites and publishing houses that serve the travel, tech and health sectors.
Red Ventures has managed to successfully out-compete rivals by moving away from the more traditional direct sales approach. Instead, it has focused on guiding customers towards purchases on other sites, and then taking a commission. The company's agility and laser-sharp focus on advice and specialty subjects will prove invaluable in the years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2015
$250m
LATE VC
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- Commission potential (role dependent)
- Health insurance coverage (medical, dental and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- PTO
- Holiday pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee assistance program
- Paid parental bonding benefit program
Company values
- We are committed to inclusion
- We pay it forward
- We get better every day
- We challenge what's possible
Company HQ
Indian Land, SC
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Leadership
Ric Elias
(CEO & Co-founder)Has served as CEO of Red Ventures since 2000.
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