Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CisionOne's Product Managers, Business Developers, Account Managers and customers to understand requirements of product features and business problems.
• Design data and software structure to bring these features to life and solve these problems, extending existing components from the CisionOne architecture or adding new ones.
• Discover and evaluate external libraries, services and APIs that can be leveraged to speed up development process.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery, applying sound judgement to review, test and take ownership of any AI-generated code.
• Write version-controlled code to implement the agreed solution, primarily with the Ruby on Rails framework on the backend and the VueJS framework on the frontend, following industry best practices and CisionOne's conventions.
• Write automated unit and end-to-end test to validate the behaviour of the features.
• Submit code for reviews of accuracy, maintainability and efficiency performed by automated quality checks as well as other engineers in the team;
• Review code written by other engineers in the team;
• Deploy code to CisionOne's preview and staging environments for testing and validation;
• Gather feedback from various stakeholders and adjust solutions accordingly;
• Merge and deploy code to production environments and monitor for unexpected behaviour;

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead and/or deliver on complex software systems.

Preferred

• Some DevOps experience, particularly with Kubernetes and Elasticsearch.
• Media/news/content experience is highly advantageous.
• Experience working with Excel, Project Management Tools/CRM tools/Boolean Search.
• Cision is the global leader in consumer and media intelligence, engagement, and communication solutions. We equip PR and corporate communications, marketing, and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today's data driven world. Our deep expertise, exclusive data partnerships, and award-winning products, including
• Brandwatch

Skills & Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience.
• Working with the Ruby on Rails and VueJS frameworks and other relevant backend and frontend technologies.
• Ability to use AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot responsibly and effectively, with a critical eye for the quality, security and correctness of their output.
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot.
• Understand software best practice and advise accordingly.

Preferred skills

CisionOne, and

PR Newswire, enable over 75,000 companies and organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to see and be seen, understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most to them.

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