Software Engineer

Hearst Magazines' Bring a Trailer is a community-driven automotive marketplace and part of the Hearst Autos family. The Software Engineer will build and modernize cloud-native technology, including microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows, while integrating with legacy WordPress and PHP systems. The role also involves collaborating across teams, troubleshooting production issues, and improving platform reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, and SQS in TypeScript
• Develop modern features that integrate seamlessly with existing WordPress and PHP systems while supporting the ongoing migration to a serverless architecture
• Build secure, scalable API endpoints, event handlers, synchronization services, and background processing workflows that deliver reliable customer and internal experiences
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Quality Assurance, and Engineering partners during six-week development cycles to deliver high-quality software solutions
• Practice Spec-Driven Development (SDD) by translating product requirements into well-defined technical specifications, automated tests, and measurable outcomes
• Leverage AI coding agents effectively by providing clear guidance, critically reviewing generated code, validating edge cases, and ensuring production-quality implementations
• Troubleshoot production issues across cloud services and legacy integration points, identify root causes, and implement automated testing to prevent regressions
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to engineering documentation, infrastructure as code, observability improvements, and the team's on-call rotation to maintain platform reliability

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience developing production software, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience building backend services, APIs, and asynchronous applications using TypeScript and Node.js
• Hands-on experience developing cloud-native applications using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, and related serverless services
• Working knowledge of PHP and familiarity reading and understanding WordPress applications, plugins, REST APIs, and data models
• Understanding of database design, DynamoDB data modeling, and relational databases such as MySQL
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code with strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively within a remote, collaborative engineering team and work successfully across technical and non-technical partners
• This is a remote role and may be performed from one of the following states: CA, CO, DE, FL, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA, WA, or WI. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa
• Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, Terraform, SAM, or Serverless Framework), CI/CD pipelines, event-driven architectures, observability tools, React, or AI-assisted development workflows