Her Campus Media is the #1 media portfolio for college students and Gen Z. Our brands -- Her Campus, Spoon University, College Fashionista, InfluenceHer Collective, and Generation Hired -- reach an audience of over 130 million social followers and 19 million monthly unique users, and count more than 50,000 influencers and student ambassadors at 1,500 colleges in our global network. Whether through content, resources, events, or other experiences, our mission is to support, celebrate, inspire, amplify, and equip Gen Z to realize their dreams as individuals and for society. We also power full-service, integrated marketing programs for the world’s top brands, who partner with us to create authentic, meaningful connections with our audience.

We are proud to be named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2021 and won Ad Week’s Campaign of the Year 2021 for ImStillGraduating.com! Come help us build the next amazing Gen Z experience. 

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The Product & Engineering team at Her Campus Media is responsible for building and maintaining the engines that power our organization.  If you want to be able to build really cool online experiences that enable thousands of GenZ writers to share their stories, then come join our growing team. 

Responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):

• Supporting & extending custom built Content Management Systems (CMS) & website written in Ruby on Rails & Node.js that powers SpoonUniversity.com

• Supporting & extending WordPress installations powering HerCampus.com and CollegeFashionista.com;

  • this will include contributing to existing open source plugins and building custom WordPress plugins for Her Campus Media

• Helping to optimize the front end code to ensure optimal performance and passing scores on Core Web Vitals

• Working on systems to aggregate data to provide analytical insights to the company

• Continuing to extend and refine the CI/CD process for our systems

• Extending automated testing & monitoring into our code base

• Building custom integrations with 3rd party services like CloudFlare, Digital Asset Management systems, Google Ad Manager, New Relic, etc.

• Being a trusted technical expert for the product team and architecting creative solutions that let the company scale in our content delivery and support for thousands of student writers

• Customizing event marketing sites built on Squarespace with advanced functionality via javascript & css

• Generating ad-hoc reports to support sales, marketing & management

• Being an escalation point for end user issues with the CMSs that power the HCM sites

• Minimum of 3-5 years of actual development experience with at least one modern web scripting language 

  • PHP or other web scripting languages required

  • Front end development experience (modern CSS & JS practices)

  • Ruby on Rails experience highly valued

  • A true polyglot will be considered a top tier candidate

• Understanding of the key areas that matter to consumer facing websites such as Core Web Vitals, SEO, audience measurement & remarketing, etc.

• Comfort with relational database technologies (MySQL, PostgresSQL, etc)

• Familiarity with non-relational database technologies (MongoDB)

• Experience with modern development tools (GIT, CI/CD, Cloud servers, etc)

• General exposure to project management, sprint planning, testing plans, QA checklists and other ancillary development tasks

• Ability to troubleshoot bugs in production and get to the root cause

• Excellent written & verbal communication especially when explaining complex technical topics to lay team members and end users

• Willingness to learn new skills and roll up your sleeves to pitch in where help is needed

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, at this time we are NOT able to sponsor visas.

NOTE: Her Campus Media is a remote friendly company! If the applicant is not in the Boston area this role will have the opportunity to travel to the Boston office to collaborate in-person once a quarter.

Benefits & Perks

• Eligibility for performance bonuses

• Choice among six health insurance plans

• Dental and vision insurance

• 401k retirement savings plan with company matching

• Unlimited PTO and flexibility to work remotely part of the week

• Extremely generous company holiday policy, with 16+ paid holidays annually including 2 floating holidays

• Highly parent-friendly culture, including 12 full weeks of parental leave plus additional 4 weeks of part-time parental leave, all fully paid

• Summer Fridays

• FSA and HSA offered

• Life insurance

• Optional short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Free One Medical membership offering same-day primary care over video or in person

• Free Health Advocate services to help navigate the healthcare system

• Dog-friendly office (if in Boston)

• Expected salary range is $70-120K depending on experience

Interview Process & Expectations

We intend to move quickly to finalize a hire. You can expect 2-3 rounds of interviews, including an initial phone screen, a programming / technical test with the Director of Engineering and subsequent interviews with the wider Product & Engineering team.

To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter via our applicant tracking system (SmartRecruiters). All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Her Campus Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and expanding diverse thoughts and backgrounds throughout our organization. Her Campus Media does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.