Senior Software Engineer - Data Product APIs

Join USA TODAY Co, a leading global digital media company reaching over 200 million people monthly through our powerful network of broadcast, mobile, and publishing properties. Our Product and Technology teams drive development and innovation across digital experiences, reimagining traditional media by creating modern products and services that connect our audiences wherever they are. Explore the opportunities at USA TODAY Co as a Senior Software Engineer in API Services.

The API Services team builds and delivers cutting-edge services that enable content delivery to millions of end users. Our infrastructure supports 500+ news brands and handles over 1 billion requests daily.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing and maintaining backend APIs powering our internal systems and consumer-facing platforms. You'll architect and implement large-scale, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems using technologies such as Golang, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and Terraform.

If you're passionate about rapid API development, automation, AI, continuous learning, and thrive in a collaborative DevOps environment, we'd love to talk to you!

You will:

• Design, develop, and deploy backend APIs in Golang that deliver content to millions of readers.
• Automate everything: containerize with Docker, deploy and scale using Kubernetes, and manage clusters with Terraform.
• Leverage top cloud provider tools to create efficient, performant, and modern architectures.
• Explore new tools to optimize cost, deployment speed, developer efficiency, and resource usage.
• Review PRs and mentor team members through feedback and collaboration.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint planning on a two-week cadence.
• Provide operational support and join the team's on-call rotation.
• Help refine and advocate best practices for application and infrastructure monitoring.

• Collaborate on designing and implementing well-tested, performant applications with a focus on concurrency.
• Deliver high-quality API solutions using GraphQL and REST at scale.
• Build scalable software in Golang (experience with Ruby, Node, Python, or similar environments is a plus).
• Automate deployment and scaling with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Write robust unit and integration tests-testing is key to our culture.

• Proven ability to thrive as a self-starter in a remote-friendly environment.
• Solid Golang experience.
• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying software platforms in a DevOps environment-we run what we build.
• Experience building APIs, SDKs, or CLI tools.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, test-driven development, CI/CD, and version control systems.
• Experience with configuration-driven systems using tools like Terraform, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.