Software Engineer

Job Description

The Opportunity:

Shutterstock is a growing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial company operating within a disruptive industry for over 15 years. Well-positioned as a leader in the digital content space, Shutterstock has the largest crowd-sourced digital content library in the world, including leading collections of images, vectors, music, and video. We manage a library of creative building blocks for an expanding global customer base.

Shutterstock is looking for passionate technologists to join our Bigstock engineering team to help drive the future growth of our e-commerce platform. You will be working with highly-motivated and talented engineers on a full-stack system with quality, performance, and scale in mind at every step of the way.

Our core belief is that the customers are our number one priority so we work hard to deliver value back to them with everything we do. We believe strongly in team ownership of systems, which includes defining the vision of services to prioritization of projects.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to all aspects of the services under the team’s ownership, which includes design, implementation, refactoring, automated testing, deployment, and uptime of the services.
• Helping other team members grow as engineers through code review, pairing, and mentoring.
• Improving internal team processes by keeping what's working, throwing away what's not.
• Collaborating on the vision of the services under the team's ownership.
• Building the technology the right way: for us, this means simple, well-tested systems that gradually grow over time, and which provide plenty of insight into production performance.
• Engineers are expected to support systems they develop in production which involves on-call. The actual periods and frequency vary by team.

Requirements:

• Passionate about what you do and care deeply about the things you build
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Javascript and React (Redux)
• Knowledge of how the Web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, etc)
• Has a good understanding of continuous delivery, writing unit tests, and automated testing
• Ability to craft simple and elegant solutions to complex problems
• Able to clearly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus Qualifications:

• Advanced experience with the React front-end framework or NextJS
• Full-stack software development experience
• Experience working working with or building REST APIs
• Experience unit testing front-end applications with Enzyme, Jest and react-testing-library or similar

Our Principles:

We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our principles represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products, please apply.

About Shutterstock:

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK ), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs , vectors , illustrations , videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week and has millions of images and video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock , a value-oriented stock media agency; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform , Offset, a high-end image collection ; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media.

For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram .

Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V