AdTech Senior Software Engineer

Audacy is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America’s #1 creator of original, premium audio delivered to 170 million listeners each month. As a senior software engineer on the AdTech team, getting those creators paid will be your primary focus.

What it’s like to work on this team:

The ideal candidate is passionate about building effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products and services. We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery. You’ll get the chance to own and contribute to multiple core functionalities and capabilities and be a driving force behind our evolution as a digital streaming company. 

We are developers and we understand what developers need.  We’ll provide you with a work environment where collaboration is encouraged but you’re not bombarded with superfluous interruptions.  We have highly encouraged quiet times each afternoon so that everyone can focus without worrying they’re missing anything. We work in modern agile feature teams that self-organize and work together to build great software.  You’ll have the opportunity to contribute new ideas, learn new technologies, and build new features.  Our 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.

What You'll Do:

Daily Experiences:

• Translate complex requirements to simple code
• Develop APIs and streaming systems powering our mobile, web and OTT apps, as well as APIs consumed by third-party developers
• Write fast, efficient code with an eye for keeping response time low
• Help to provide an accurate timeline and scoping estimations on engineering projects
• Mentor junior developers, including conducting code reviews and assisting in architecture planning
• Keep up on cutting edge software trends and cloud-based solutions
• Follow engineering best practices and participate in code reviews
• Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation
• Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
• Additional duties as needed

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

Required Traits:

• Are a polyglot that isn’t afraid to learn new technologies
• Have built production systems that scaled
• Aren’t afraid to own greenfield or brownfield projects

Desired Traits:

• Immediately get the debugger working when introduced to a new project
• Are comfortable with dynamically typed interpreted languages
• Are comfortable with statically typed compiled languages
• Have built something that failed and learned from it
• Know SOLID rules well enough to know when to break them
• Have enough experience with RDBMS to know that indexes are important
• Have enough experience with NoSQL databases to know that keys are important
• Use unit tests because they make code better and development faster
• Think swagger UI is an amazing tool and every API should use it
• Have built systems that deploy on AWS and/or GCP
• Use docker to encapsulate and isolate services whenever possible

Pay Transparency:

The anticipated starting salary range for remote-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $140,000-$145,000. 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.

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD; OTC: AUDA) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), X (@AudacyCorp), LinkedIn (@Audacy-Inc), Instagram (@lifeataudacy) and Threads (@Audacy_Corp).

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.