Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) is a leader in live entertainment, delivering unforgettable experiences while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences. The Company’s portfolio includes a collection of world-renowned venues – New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – that showcase a broad array of sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events for millions of guests annually. In addition, the Company features the original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for 90 years. More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com.
Who are we hiring?
The Software Engineer will be a key member of the Digital Technology Engineering team responsible for the architecture, development, troubleshooting, implementation, and enhancement of new and existing web applications and platform (microservices), as well as supporting frontend and backend technologies, including React, CSS, NodeJS, and Express. You’ll join a team of experts in software engineering technologies such as those mentioned as well as Amazon Web Services, serverless platforms and frameworks, and automation. In additional to software development, you will also be contributing your expertise to optimizing our agile processes and product development, including assisting in requirements gathering and analysis. You’ll work with a focus on performance, stability, maintainability, functionality, and observability, which will often involve implementing or instrumenting both custom and third-party solutions.
What will you do?
- Build UIs in React, Redux, CSS, HTML, and other technologies using Webpack with ESModules.
- Build services in NodeJS with Express and/or serverless/microservice technologies such as Lambda, while providing RESTful APIs.
- Write “clean code,” following our conventions, standards, established design patterns, and best practices.
- Manage our source code in Github, keeping our commit history useful and clean.
- Actively participate in and contribute to all Scrum ceremonies and take personal responsibility for the success of each Sprint.
- Collaborate with other developers of all levels.
- This is an individual contributor role, but may coach team members and lead development efforts
What do you need to succeed?
- Expert knowledge of technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript using ES6-ES2020 language features, CSS3 and HTML5.
- A minimum of 3-5 years of hands-on development experience with JavaScript, with advanced understanding of design patterns and best practices.
- A minimum of 2 years creating services and APIs in NodeJS with either Express or AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience building performant UIs with ReactJS and Redux.
- Proficiency with web app tooling technologies. We use Webpack, NPM, git/Github, Babel, Create React app, SCSS, PostCSS, as well as others.
- Experience in working on Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency with any of these testing frameworks and libraries: Jest (or similar, like Karma or Jasmine), Mocha, Chai, Sinon, CucumberJS, Webdriver IO.
- Can effectively work with command line tools.
- Experience of ESLint configuration. We use JavaScript Standard Style and AirBnB.
- Experience working in a cloud-only environment, specifically in AWS.
- Experience contributing to the velocity of an Agile Scrum team.
- Some understanding of the basics of caching, including CDNs, in-memory caches, or page and database caching.
- Proficiency in PHP, Ruby on Rails, or Python.
- Experience working with a headless CMS or custom Content tooling.
- Knowledge of ElasticSearch and its APIs and JavaScript or PHP SDKs.
- Understanding of any of these caching technologies: CDNs (like CloudFront), in-memory caches (Redis, Memcached), page caches (like Varnish), or object caching
- GraphQL knowledge
- AWS or Agile Scrum certification.
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Pay Range
$83,000—$155,000 USD
At MSG, we recognize the importance of upskilling employees’ talents and strengths so they can drive their careers forward. We are proud to offer a robust set of tools and resources to help employees understand their interests and purpose, harness their talents and obtain the skills they need to reach the next step in their careers. Growth and longevity for our employees are top priorities here.
We value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! MSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual and reproductive health choices, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law mandates, MSG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in all locations and will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required.
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What We Do
MSG Entertainment is a world leader in live entertainment, comprised of world-renowned venues and marquee brands. Utilizing our powerful assets and expertise, we produce, present, or host a variety of entertainment and sports events, delivering unforgettable experiences for millions of fans each year. Across our venues and brands, MSG Entertainment sets the standard for excellence and innovation while forging deep connections with diverse and passionate audiences.
Our Company includes our portfolio of iconic venues: New York’s Madison Square Garden, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre – each a prominent destination for unforgettable experiences and events. With flexible seating capacities and configurations that range from 2,800 to 21,000, our venues enable us to showcase a broad array of compelling sporting events, concerts, family shows, and special events that cover a wide spectrum of genres. This includes at Madison Square Garden, known as “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” which serves as home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers – two of the most recognized franchises in professional sports – and perennially hosts the biggest names in music and entertainment.
MSG Entertainment also features the wholly-owned original production, the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, which has been a holiday tradition for generations of fans at Radio City Music Hall since 1933. The show’s enduring popularity is driven by the world-famous Radio City Rockettes, the longest-running precision dance company in America.
More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com
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