Paramount: Sr. Full Stack Engineer, CBS Sports Digital (Freelance)

Full Stack Developer is needed in New York, United States.

Client: Paramount

Location: New York, NY

Contract: Full Time, Freelance, 6 Month Contract

Job Description:

Do you have a passion for Sports? Do you love to code? If you answered yes, then CBS Sports Digital may be looking for you! CBSSports.com is looking for an experienced Sr. Full Stack Engineer for our CBSSports.com Picks Games engineering team. To be successful at this job, you need to bring a winning attitude, technical architecture skills, and excellent leadership skills. This is a 6 month temporariy assignment.

Your-Day-to-Day:

• Develop new business-led features with an emphasis on performance and user experience
• Develop new and maintain current frontend architecture and backend processes to support CBSSports.com Games and Picks platform
• Build interactive UX using TypeScript and React based on designs provided by design team to support existing and new game types
• Design, architect, and maintain data store for various sports data including user selections for games and picks
• Deploy periodic site updates to QA, stage, and production environments
• Provide engineering support to stakeholders, ensuring a high level of application availability and stability

Key Projects:

• Build from the ground up or and/or support existing backend applications for CBSSports.com Picks Games
• Design and implement Database Schemas for new and existing games in MySQL
• Build and maintain backend processes for managing states of sports data and publishing to the frontend via websockets
• Build and support backend processes to manage standings, user entries, scoring, etc for various CBSSports.com games like Picks Games and Bracket Games
• Build and maintain GraphQL APIs
• Refactor various parts of the backend code to be more efficient
• Keep platform updated with latest NodeJS and React features

Qualifications:

What you bring to the team:

• You have:
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Node.js
• Minimum 5 years of Web Development experience, with 3+ years of experience in React
• Minimum of 2 years of experience building UI/UX from the ground up based on designs provided
• Minimum of 2 years of developing and architecting applications for cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Ability to design and debug complex systems.
• Familiarity with HTML5 WebSockets
• Proven experience building GraphQL APIs
• Worked with agile processes
• Familiarity with using version control systems. (Git)
• You might also have:
• You possess strong initiative and the ability for creative thinking with product development staff plus the ability to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible and team-oriented environment
• You have excellent understanding of Object Oriented Programming and Design
• You have a familiarity with caching data stores (Redis)
• You love sports, fantasy sports and/or sports gaming
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills