Director of Engineering, Content Services

Director of Engineering, Content Services

Job Locations USA-CO-Denver

ID 2021-3740

Category Information Technology

Type Regular

Overview

Audacy is looking for an innovative, result-oriented and passionate Director of Engineering to work with our product and operations teams to build out our next-generation Event Driven Content Services.

The candidate will be responsible for building and mentoring the team responsible for the Audacy.com website and our high traffic station websites.

The ideal candidate is passionate about creating effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products and online service that iterates rapidly.

We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery.

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $150,000
– $170,000 per year.

Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities 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.

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.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver results on complex projects involving multiple teams across the company
• Architect and develop features for our Content Services systems
• Recruit, manage, and mentor a team of talented and effective software engineers.
• Build and maintain a positive and productive team culture
• Deliver high-quality maintainable code
• Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation
• Dive into the details where necessary, un block the team
• Help build a strong sense of team and team culture
• Being a self starter, anticipate future directions, work with product and business stakeholders
• Work closely with the Content Tools group to create a top tier Content System.

Qualifications

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

• 5+ years of engineering experience writing high traffic websites/applications
• 3+ years of team leadership experience
• Experience managing local, remote and near/offshore teams
• Experience managing a mix of Full Time, Contractor, vendor and project teams.
• Experience writing NodeJS applications, Kotlin, kSreams, kSQL DB.
• Experience building podcast ingestion, cue point processing, content aggregation, and more.
• Have a media background or a strong desire to dive in and learn.
• Experience with Pub/Sub and Event Driven architectures, utilizing Kafka (Confluent, AWS MSK)
• Experience with Audio and video streaming support services, (ex: cue point processing,meta data, audio enrichment, etc.)
• Understanding of RESTful API patterns
• BA/BS in Computer Science preferred

To help promote and ensure the safety of all of our employees and the communities we serve, we require all incoming employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination, which will be kept confidential.

If you are not vaccinated, or partially vaccinated currently, but willing to become fully vaccinated, we invite you to still apply.

Audacy is committed to providing a safe and inclusive work environment for all and we recognize that some individuals may have a sincerely held religious belief as it pertains to the practice of immunization or a medical disability which may prevent them from becoming vaccinated.

Individuals who cannot be fully vaccinated due to a sincere religious belief or medical disability may request an accommodation.

We request that you refrain from discussing religious beliefs or medical conditions during the interview process.

If you believe you need an accommodation, you will have an opportunity to submit your request during the interview process.

All requests for accommodation will remain confidential and reviewed by selected individuals within the HR department.

We cannot guarantee that all requests for accommodation will be granted.

Please refer to our EEO policy and statement below.

About Us

Audacy, Inc.

EEO

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.