Senior Software Developer

As the world’s leading digital English dictionary and thesaurus, Dictionary.com helps more than 70 million monthly users attain language success.

Company Description As the world’s leading digital English dictionary and thesaurus, Dictionary.com helps more than 70 million monthly users attain language success. Our leading mobile applications have been downloaded more than 100 million times – and we are just getting started.

Today, Dictionary is hard at work reinventing itself as a broad-reaching platform empowering users to improve and enrich their language skills in the connected world.

• Build and launch software products with the highest bar of quality and velocity, using modern tech stacks and tools.
• Collaborate closely with technical, analytical, and product teams to execute on an aggressive product roadmap.

• 5+ years of software development experience, staying current on tech stacks and tools.
• Mastery of at least 2 modern (or modernized) tech stacks in use at scale today.
• o Examples: Ruby on Rails (MRI or JRuby), Python/Django, Node.js, Java/Grails/Clojure/Scala
• • You’ve dealt with the challenges of scaling consumer applications
• You hold fast to a high bar of quality, using testing strategies, code reviews, pair programming, and any other approach to improve the quality of your code for sustainably high velocity.
• You value engaged product owners, quality engineers, production engineers, and other teammates; viewing cooperation with them as mutually beneficial
• You’ve used Hadoop or other distributed MapReduce technologies
• Strong experience with at least one SQL-based RDMS
• Strong knowledge with UNIX
• Good at coaching, learning from, and working with other engineers