Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.

Our current portfolio of media assets includes USA TODAY, local media organizations in 46 states in the U.S., and Newsquest, a wholly owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom with more than 120 local news media brands. Gannett also owns the digital marketing services companies ReachLocal, Inc., UpCurve, Inc., and WordStream, Inc., which are marketed under the LOCALiQ brand, and runs the largest media-owned events business in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.

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Senior Software Engineer - LOCALiQ

As Senior Software Engineer, you will build tools and applications that support the LOCALiQ Media Organization by leveraging a full stack across front end technologies of Angular, React, and backend technologies like Java, Spring, MySQL, php.

We are a fast-paced product-led engineering team working to build the next generation of Digital Marketing management systems partnering with Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook and Snap. If you are profoundly technical, analytical, and eager to build solutions that directly impact the company's core values, we want to talk to you!

About Your Responsibilities:

• Create scalable, fault tolerant, anti-fragile web services.
• Ensure that all developed applications are extensively tested and sufficiently documented.
• Work closely with product owners, tech leads, quality assurance and direct management to elaborate and define requirements, priorities and estimate timelines.
• Work with other team members to define service APIs.
• Quickly develop executable prototypes and iterate on ideas.
• Tenaciously follow technological advancements relevant to our customers and propose integration and use.

About You:

• Working knowledge of front-end technologies like Angular, React.
• 5+ Years Java development experience in a high traffic enterprise setting.
• Hand-on knowledge of Spring / Hibernate frameworks.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and TDD.
• Experience with RDBMS concepts and SQL.
• Experience with RESTful Web Services.
• Experience working with Git/GitHub.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), time management and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as a team member in a dynamic work environment.
• Ability to work well with rapid deployment cycles and tight deadlines.
• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent work experience.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in Digital Marketing / Online advertising (SEO/SEM) an advantage.
• 3 years of experience working within a Unix-based operating system.
• Familiar with Agile / Scrum methodologies and principles.
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• AWS/GKE or Cloud Environment exposure from a DevOps perspective would be an advantage.
• Experience with other JVM languages useful (eg Groovy, Kotlin etc)
• Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases.
• Eager attitude ready to solve challenges daily.

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