Senior Software Engineer, CoinDesk Media

About the role

The Team: CoinDesk Media Engineering

This role is all about designing and building innovative products that deliver crypto news, insights, and experiences to millions of users, with a focus on user experience, modern engineering practices, and continuous iteration.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain back-end services and React front-end applications that power real-time content delivery, monetization, and interactive features across web and mobile.
• Work with product teams to improve SEO strategies, optimize page speed, and ensure best practices for web performance and indexing.
• Instrument features, analyze outcomes, and iterate based on data, working closely with designers, product managers, and editors to build user-centric products.
• Build and integrate AI-powered agentic workflows into our products and internal tooling, leveraging LLMs and emerging AI capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on expertise in React.js, Node.js, TypeScript, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Next.js for server-side rendering, content caching, and web performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, including services like Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Strong experience with automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience building with AI agents, LLM integrations, or agentic development patterns (e.g., tool use, RAG, multi-step workflows).
• A data-driven mindset — comfortable with analytics tooling, A/B testing, and using metrics to inform engineering and product decisions.
• Experience working with design systems and component libraries.
• Expertise in secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Experience with large-scale content platforms or digital media.
• Strong ability to work across teams, engage stakeholders, and contribute to product vision.

Qualifications

• Experience with React Native for mobile applications.
• Familiarity with Sanity CMS or other headless CMS solutions.
• Experience with Vercel, including deployment workflows, edge functions, and serverless architecture.
• Understanding of Core Web Vitals and SEO best practices, including technical SEO auditing and optimization.
• Experience integrating ad management systems, paywalls, or data analytics tools into content platforms.

Skills

• React.js
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• RESTful APIs
• Next.js
• GCP (Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Automated testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end)
• AI agents, LLM integrations, agentic development patterns
• Data-driven mindset
• Design systems and component libraries
• Secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps
• Leverage of large-scale content platforms or digital media
• Mobile development (React Native)
• Sanity CMS or other headless CMS solutions
• Vercel deployment workflows, edge functions, serverless architecture
• Core Web Vitals and SEO best practices
• Ad management systems, paywalls, data analytics tools

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Discretionary annual target bonus
• Performance incentives

Pay

$180,000 - $230,000

Schedule

Full-time