Engineer - Search

We are seeking a collaborative and self-driven Engineer, Search to join our rapidly growing team and make a significant impact.

As an Engineer, Search on the Search & Monitoring Team, you will collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure our customers have access to high-quality content that meets their expectations. You'll contribute to large-scale technical projects involving extensive data volumes, support data pipelines and features leveraging ElasticSearch and Kafka, and play a key role in shaping our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team prioritizes scalability, quality, efficient delivery, and an intuitive customer experience. We release updates frequently while maintaining a strong work-life balance.

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:

• 3+ years total professional experience as a software engineer

• Proficiency with Python or a similar language

• Proficiency with Django or a similar framework

• Experience with ElasticSearch or an equivalent search engine

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:

• Experience with Kafka or other stream-processing technologies

• Experience with MySQL or Postgres

• Experience with Celery

• Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data

• Interest in journalism, news, media or social media

In addition, we’re always looking for candidates who:

• Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members

• Exhibit a willingness to learn in areas where they have less experience with our tech stack

• Take pride in the quality of their code. (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)

• Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys

• Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs

• Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Interview Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team

• A one hour zoom interview with the hiring manager

• Take-home coding assignment (2-4 hours max)

• Peer interviews, including a 30 min code review discussion

• Final call(s) with executive team member(s)  

Salary

The starting salary for this role is between $140,000 - $165,000 CAD, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.