Senior Software Engineer
Gdansk Senior Software Engineer
Gdansk
NR REF.: 1137557
Your new company
Why is this job important? Reuters News Agency engineering team develops business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, photos, and video over both Internet and satellite, and we also provide web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.
Your new role
In your role you will be responsible for:
What you'll need to succeed
Qualifications - What do you need to bring?
What you'll get in return
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
Gdansk
NR REF.: 1137557
Your new company
Why is this job important? Reuters News Agency engineering team develops business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, photos, and video over both Internet and satellite, and we also provide web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.
Your new role
In your role you will be responsible for:
- Communicate with product and business teams to gather and analyze business requirement and translate into technical design and prepare functional/technical specification documents.
- Research and identify new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reduce cost and maintain quality.
- Develop web scale, high resilience web application for news distribution and hosted content.
- Develop low latency news collection and processing system that process text, picture, video news in various news message format.
- Develop news distribution services that deliver news content to clients globally via FTP/HTTP pushing, web services and agent application.
- Work together with Quality Assurance team to prepare test plans/test cases and define test execution methodology and perform tests. Identify and fix any defects.
- Work together with system operation team to ensure system stability and maintain high availability 24/7/365.
What you'll need to succeed
Qualifications - What do you need to bring?
- A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of work experience in software development-related position.
- Experience in an application development role in low-latency data collecting and processing systems design and development.
- Experience in large-scale web application/web services design and development.• Deep understanding and experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Java/Python/Clojure.
- Good understanding in SQL/NO-SQL database, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML.
- Experience in Linux platform and related tools including shell script.
- Experience in public cloud especially AWS is a big plus.
- Experience in search solution design and development using Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene is a big plus.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with product managers.
- Experience working in a global team with coworkers from different culture is desirable.
- Experience within the news industry and knowledge of industry standards is desirable
What you'll get in return
- Job in an international, dynamic environment
- Intensive training package
- Wellbeing scheme including private healthcare and Multisport card
- Company social incentives.
- High standards of ethics in the workplace
- 2 additional days off for voluntary activities
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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