Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Sr. Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality digital products. This role will contribute to the design, development, and evolution of our technology platforms, leveraging modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted development tools.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader and hands-on engineer who can influence system design and architecture, write high-quality, maintainable code, and drive best practices across the software development lifecycle. This individual will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, contribute to technical decision-making, and help continuously improve engineering processes, performance, and scalability.

• Design and build scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems in continuous delivery environment
• Write clean, modular and maintainable code with unit test coverage
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns to accelerate development velocity across the team.
• Take ownership of your work and deliver high-quality results
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Help influence and prioritize work to enable efficient, iterative delivery
• Translate high-level strategies into actionable engineering tasks in partnership with product and engineering leadership
• Identify bottlenecks and system constraints, and proactively drive solutions
  
  Reduce technical debt and improve developer experience to keep systems modern, fast, and maintainable
• Produce technical documentation, schematics, and architecture diagrams
• Advocate for and implement best practices in testing, code quality, performance, and tooling
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Use monitoring, metrics, and logging to troubleshoot and resolve production issues with your team

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 5+ years of technical expertise including recent experience architecting, designing and developing technology platforms using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript, and Type Script.
• 3+ years of experience working with relational and No
  
  SQL database platforms (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Some experience with modern caching technologies (Redis preferred)
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team in a collaborative, team-driven agile software engineering environment.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud environments, including familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and design patterns
• Ability to work across multiple technologies and platforms.
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable code.
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Vuetify, or Angular
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Experience with background processing tools like Sidekiq
• Strong understanding of service-oriented and/or microservices architectures (event-driven patterns are a plus)
• Ability to contribute and grow - team-oriented mindset with strong intellectual curiosity and a desire for continuous learning

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI/ML capabilities into products or engineering workflows
• Experience with and developing for Raspberry PI platform
• Ex…