Principal Engineer

Who are we hiring?

The Principal 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) in JavaScript, Ruby on Rails as well as supporting frontend and backend technologies, including React, CSS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL and Express. You’ll join a team of experts in software engineering technologies with expertise in Amazon Web Services, serverless platforms, and automation. In additional to software development, you will also be contributing your expertise to optimising 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?

• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly-distributed global cloud-based systems, and experience in security, data, and application development. 
• Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments. 
• Deep architectural and hands-on expertise in building services in NodeJS with Express and/or serverless/microservice technologies such as Lambda, while providing RESTful APIs.  
• Build UIs in React, Redux, CSS, HTML, and other technologies using Webpack with ESModules. 

• Ability to create and maintain conventions, standards, established design patterns, and best practices. 
• Ability to learn/work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space. 
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals. 
• Actively participate in and contribute to all Scrum ceremonies and take personal responsibility for the success of each Sprint. 
• Coach other developers of all levels. 

What do you need to succeed?

• A minimum of 10-12 years of professional technical experience 
• Expert knowledge of technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript using ES6-ES2020 language features, CSS3 and HTML5. 
• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on development experience with JavaScript, with advanced understanding of design patterns and best practices. 
• A minimum of 5 years creating services and APIs in NodeJS with either Express or AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync. 

• A minimum of 5 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. 
• 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. 

Why is MSG for me?

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) is a leader in live entertainment.  The Company presents or hosts a broad array of events in its diverse collection of venues: New York’s Madison Square Garden, Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and Beacon Theatre; and The Chicago Theatre. MSG Entertainment is also building a new state-of-the-art venue in Las Vegas, MSG Sphere at The Venetian. In addition, the Company features the original production – the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes – and through Boston Calling Events, produces the Boston Calling Music Festival. The Company’s two regional sports and entertainment networks, MSG Network and MSG+, deliver a wide range of live sports content and other programming. Also under the MSG Entertainment umbrella is Tao Group Hospitality, with entertainment dining and nightlife brands including: Tao, Marquee, Lavo, Beauty & Essex, Cathédrale, Hakkasan and Omnia. More information is available at www.msgentertainment.com. 

We invite you to create an exceptional career at MSG

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

At MSG 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 requirements, MSG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in all locations. #LI-VR1