Hearst Corporation reaches more than 100 million people around the world every month on digital platforms connected to loved and trusted brands like Cosmopolitan, the Houston Chronicle, and 29 television stations. We’re crafting new, elegant digital experiences that make our stories - like #cosmovotes, local news that matters, trusted reviews, and entertainment - come to life, across all platforms, devices, and brands. Check out ourrecent work, unifying our publishing tools and user experiences to enable talented editorial teams to tell more engaging stories more often.
We’re creating a game-changing modern content technology stack - built from the ground up to give our users, editors, and advertisers tools that enable them to tell these amazing stories. We’re using modern web technologies to do this, like Python, node.js, and memcached. We’re building an open, service-oriented platform driven by APIs, and believe passionately in crafting simple, elegant solutions to complex technological and product problems.
We’re hiring a Lead Systems Architect to solve problems as we build out our new platform. The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing distributed, service oriented architecture (SOA) systems, and ideally has a strong data systems design background.
Responsibilities
- Lead systems design and architecture for Hearst’s content platform
- Make critical software design decisions
- Be fully involved in the software development process, mentoring engineers as they build software in alignment with the architectural vision
- Be ready to adapt and extend the architectural plan as new product goals and technical challenges emerge in our agile, continuous development environment