Lead Engineer, Clients

The Client and Client Services team at Audacy powers all front-end experiences for our listeners. Keyword “experiences”. Everything we do in our group relates to our mission to deliver a world-class audio experience, which includes music, podcasts, sports, news, and so much more!

We are currently looking for the right Lead Engineer to join us. We work together everyday to do things that matter, leave things better than when we started, and always keep our listener’s experience in mind. You will have the opportunity to use your technical and leadership experience to work on mobile, web, smart speaker, and connected device apps, along with the next generation of these experiences. Our remote team has an inclusive culture with a commitment to work-life balance.

We are developers and we understand what developers need. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute new ideas, learn new technologies, and architect new features. 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!

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based & remote individuals expressing interest in this position is $150,000 - $165,000. 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.

What You'll Do:

• Be a “servant leader” who puts the team first to unblock, educate, motivate, and create a positive team culture
• Grow your technical and people mentorship skills
• Participate in the software release process to respective stores
• Participate in build management and refining CI/CD pipelines, as needed
• Contribute code and solutions to projects
• Triage and correct issues that affect the end user
• Document solutions and share with the team
• Break technical concepts down and share with non-technical stakeholders

• Assess daily and weekly team objectives and monitor output
• Participate in technical and project-based communication with internal team members, external teams and stakeholders
• Work on architecture designs for assigned features
• Participate in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns
• Work with Jira, our bug tracking and project management software

• Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

Required:

• Experience with modern front-end technologies: React, React Native, Typescript, and Javascript
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working with 3rd party libraries and plug-ins
• Experience with Git source control
• Strong engineering fundamentals including data structures, OOP, time complexity analysis, and code refactoring/reusability
• 2+ years acting as a hands-on tech lead with a desire to grow your people management experience
• 2+ years experience in agile software development environments
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred: 

• Prior experience in unit testing and/or test-driven development
• Familiarity with web development
• Experience with audio streaming standards such as HLS
• Familiarity with native iOS and Android development is a plus
• Experience with various store submission processes is a plus
• Experience with app code signing is a plus
• Understanding of in-app advertising & analytics is a plus

Pay Transparency:

The anticipated starting salary range for remote-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $160,000-$165,000. 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.