Senior Software Engineer

For 25 years, Getty Images has embraced disruption and change; riding the digital wave to evolve from a fragmented, analog stock photo business into a global e-commerce industry leader and trusted brand. The breadth and quality of our content has always allowed our customers and partners to tell their stories with greater creativity and accuracy, eliciting more emotion and enabling more action. Getty Images moves the world, whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving. Help us move the world with images!Getty Images is the most trusted and esteemed source of visual content in the world, with over 405 million assets available through its industry-leading sites www.gettyimages.com and www.istock.com. The Getty Images website serves creative, business and media customers in almost 200 countries and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful content from the world's best photographers and videographers. Getty Images works with over 330,000 contributors and image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world's deepest digital archive of historic photography. Getty Images is a world leader in visual content. With over 405 million assets, of which over 285million are digitized, encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; exclusive conceptual creative images; and the world’s largest commercial archive. New content is added daily, with 8-10 million new assets added each quarter. We are inclusive of different voices, perspectives and experience. We believe diversity is critical to our mission to objectively reflect the world we live in and allow our customers to illustrate that world. This means including a diverse range of voices in our content, actively pursuing diversity in our team and sources of content and listening to our customers to make sure we are as open and responsive as possible.
Women, gender-nonbinary, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Getty Images Inc. is looking for a full-stack engineer to develop elegant and effective solutions for our high performing, data-driven marketing organization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you have a strong sense of curiosity and thrive in collaborative environments, working with other engineers and business stakeholders to develop creative solutions to a variety of problems. You are a self-starter, taking initiative and effectively prioritizing your workload. You are a proven high achiever, raising the bar for your team and committed to delivering business value. Your next challenge:

• Design, develop, and maintain original front-end and back-end applications.
• Maintain, update, and improve existing web site environments, applications, and services for performance optimization and SEO discoverability.
• Work with the Analytics, Marketing, and SEO teams to identify opportunities across marketing sites and provide impactful solutions with the goal of increasing overall organic search visits to Getty Images and iStock web sites in search engines.
• Participate in code development by actively writing code, engaging in code reviews with your peers, building out various levels of testing, and documenting our codebase.
• Develop estimates and schedules on a project or team wide basis
• Diagnose and resolve issues affecting site performance including page speed, mobile-friendliness, first input delay, cumulative layout shift, largest content paint, and similar challenges.

What you’ll need:

• Minimum three to five years of relevant experience in web services, application development, and/or relevant field
• Significant professional web development experience using server-side and client-side web programming in a commercial environment.
• Fluent and experienced in most of the following: PHP, JavaScript, SQL, and Python
• Experience creating, updating, and working with admin tools and sites.
• Knowledge and work experience with AWS and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with web analytics platforms such as Google Analytics
• Experience with Agile software methodologies and continuous development
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience supporting APIs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – comfortable liaising with designers, project managers and business stakeholders
• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent quantitative field

What can you expect:

• Frequent communication with others to exchange information.
• Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing. Time of each will vary.
• Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc.
• Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment.

Mental and Physical Demands:

• Frequent communication with others to exchange information.
• Occasionally moving objects up to 20 lbs and frequently moving objects up to 10 lbs.
• Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary.
• Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc.
• Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment.

Leadership Principles:

• Trustworthiness, Transparency, and Openness
• Raise the Bar
• Lead by Example
• One Voice
• Bring Me Solutions
• No Silos
• The Obligation to Care

Due to the current conditions of Covid-19, this key position will work from home until further notice.
Getty Images is committed to providing Reasonable Accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please email RecruitingAccommodations@gettyimages.com.
Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of still and moving imagery in communication and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life. For company news and announcements, visit our Press Room, and for the stories and inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends. Find Getty Images on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr, or download the Getty Images app where you can explore, save and share the world's best imagery. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world with images and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment which celebrates diversity. We seek to hire on the basis of merit, competence, performance, and business needs.