Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is currently seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join our engineering team and work on our WordPress and Laravel systems while applying artificial intelligence to modern web development.

This role is ideal for an engineer early in their career who is excited to grow their skills across the stack, learn from more experienced teammates, and use AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, code quality, and understanding of complex systems. You will work with established patterns, existing architecture, and close guidance while gradually increasing your scope and independence over time.

You’ll help us maintain high-quality, reliable websites and collaborate with a thoughtful, inclusive team that values learning, respect, and tackling meaningful problems together.

You will have the chance to work on some of the largest, trusted brands in entertainment and fashion news, including Variety, Billboard, Deadline, WWD, and The Hollywood Reporter.

What You’ll Do:

You will contribute to real production systems while being supported by senior engineers and established processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain WordPress plugins and Laravel applications using existing patterns and best practices
• Build and enhance frontend features using TypeScript, React, and NextJS, focusing on responsiveness, performance, and accessibility
• Contribute to AI-powered features (such as editorial tools or automation) by implementing well-defined components and integrations
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to understand requirements and deliver scoped solutions
• Work with APIs connecting WordPress, Laravel, and external services, following existing designs
• Participate in CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and learn how our deployment pipelines work
• Use Docker-based development environments and assist with deployments to AWS-hosted infrastructure
• Support infrastructure and observability efforts by following documented processes and contributing small improvements
• Write tests, documentation, and pull requests, and participate in code reviews as a learner and contributor
• Assist with troubleshooting and bug fixes affecting production websites, with guidance from teammates
• Participate in team on-call rotations after onboarding, with backup and support from senior engineers

What We’re Looking For:

We don’t expect you to have experience with everything listed below. This role is designed for growth, and we value curiosity, learning ability, and collaboration.

Required / Core Skills:

• Experience with PHP and familiarity with WordPress or Laravel (professional, academic, or personal projects)
• Basic experience with JavaScript and modern frontend development (TypeScript or React experience is a plus)
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (such as coding assistants, AI-powered IDEs, or automated refactoring tools) as part of your regular development workflow, with an interest in learning how to apply them effectively in production environments
• Understanding of web fundamentals such as HTTP, TLS, REST APIs, and relational databases
• Awareness of accessibility and SEO best practices, with a desire to learn more
• Ability to take feedback well, ask questions, and communicate clearly with teammates

Nice to Have (Not Required):

• Exposure to TypeScript, NextJS, or modern React patterns
• Experience using Docker or cloud platforms (AWS or similar)
• Familiarity with automated testing or CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with secure development practices (OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, authorization concepts)

How You’ll Grow in This Role:

• You’ll start by working on well-scoped tasks and bug fixes with clear guidance
• Over time, you’ll take ownership of small features and components
• You’ll learn how we use AI tools to improve development speed and quality
• As your skills grow, your level of independence and responsibility will increase in line with our engineering career ladder

This role aligns with early-career engineering expectations and provides a clear path for progression within our Individual Contributor track. While this role works on the same systems as more senior engineers, expectations around autonomy, decision-making, and technical leadership are intentionally scoped to an early-career level.

As PMC values in-person collaboration and team cohesion, employees work onsite 4 days a week and 1 day remotely with a focus on maintaining a vibrant and inclusive culture.

Typical wage range: $120k - $135k. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. If you have more or less experience than specified on this job posting, please apply and list your salary expectations.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors).

It’s all About You…

PMC's comprehensive benefits package is thoughtfully designed to support every aspect of your life, empowering you to thrive both personally and professionally. We offer PMC-Paid Healthcare with no employee paycheck contributions on medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. PMC also offers Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care & Commuter), an Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave, and a 401(k) Retirement Plan with an Employer match. Employees are also eligible to take advantage of company discounts and perks including Pet Insurance, Home & Auto Insurance, Mortgage discounts, and a variety of other savings on wellness, lifestyle, and financial essentials. As part of PMC's dedication to consistently meeting employees’ needs, we are currently launching a new Flexible Vacation Policy.

At PMC, we believe working in a highly collaborative, office-first environment fosters real-time communication, spontaneous idea sharing, and stronger interpersonal relationships that drive innovation and team cohesion. PMC prioritizes in-person collaboration and does not offer remote-only roles.

About this position:

We’re looking for a deeply technical, strategically minded Domain Architect to lead the next evolution of our platform architecture. In this role, you’ll rapidly assess our existing systems, define convergence opportunities between key domains, and shape the integration strategy that drives scalability, velocity, and long-term technical excellence. You’ll bridge product, engineering, and data to define clear domain boundaries, establish technical standards, and guide the modernization of our architecture—ensuring we balance innovation with business impact.

This role is ideal for an experienced architect who thrives in fast-moving environments, understands the trade-offs between pragmatism and purity, and can translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable decisions across teams.

What you'll be doing:

Strategy

• Evaluate and define the target-state domain architecture across multiple products, identifying convergence opportunities and technical debt reduction paths.
• Design and lead a scalable integration strategy between heterogeneous systems (e.g., Rails <-> Node/React Native via APIs, Kafka, or event streams).
• Define domain boundaries and service ownership models that enable sustainable growth and platform flexibility.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align architectural priorities with product roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional discussions on modernization strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability.

Technical/ Execution

• Decompose monolithic applications (Rails, Django, Laravel) into domain-based services or bounded contexts, using domain-driven design principles.
• Define integration and data synchronization patterns between distributed systems, ensuring schema evolution and API versioning best practices.
• Architect core platform services—authentication, identity, content, and analytics—shared across web and mobile products.
• Apply deep hands-on knowledge of AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Postgres, EventBridge/SNS/SQS) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Introduce observability, monitoring, and CI/CD standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, CircleCI) that support secure, high-quality releases.
• Provide technical mentorship and architectural reviews to ensure strong engineering standards and knowledge transfer across teams.

Team / Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to guide architecture decisions that optimize both user experience and technical sustainability.
• Contribute to architecture guilds and domain working groups, defining shared frameworks and principles for system evolution.
• Communicate architectural trade-offs clearly—speed vs scalability, build vs buy, monolith vs microservice—to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Author and socialize Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), domain maps, and shared service contracts to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to senior engineers, promoting best practices in distributed system design and software craftsmanship.

Leadership

• Lead by influence across engineering teams, setting a high bar for architectural rigor, documentation, and technical collaboration.
• Champion scalable, pragmatic engineering principles that accelerate business velocity while building for the future.
• Drive the adoption of a modern technical culture—balancing innovation, quality, and accountability.

Research/Best Practices

• Stay current on evolving architectural paradigms (domain-driven design, event-driven systems, microservices, and data mesh patterns).
• Introduce architectural innovations and tools that improve developer efficiency, code quality, and system observability.
• Conduct architecture reviews and share learnings company-wide to foster continuous improvement and technical excellence.

What success looks like:

• Clear domain boundaries and service ownership models are defined and adopted across engineering teams.
• Integration patterns between systems are reliable, documented, and scalable, supporting faster feature delivery.
• Architecture decisions are data-informed, balancing speed, cost, and technical debt effectively.
• The engineering organization demonstrates improved velocity and reduced friction between teams.
• Foundational technical debt reduction and modernization initiatives are underway, with measurable impact on reliability and maintainability.
• You’re seen as a collaborative, trusted technical leader who bridges architecture and product strategy seamlessly.

What you bring:

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or principal architecture role.
• Proven expertise designing and evolving architectures in high-scale, multi-product environments (Rails, Node.js, React Native preferred).
• Deep understanding of domain-driven design (DDD), service decomposition, and event-driven patterns.
• Strong AWS architecture experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, EventBridge, SQS/SNS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy systems incrementally, driving results without full rebuilds.
• Solid understanding of data synchronization, API design, schema evolution, and distributed systems reliability.
• Experience defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, multi-env).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas for diverse audiences.
• Passion for mentorship, system design, and building architectures that enable product and team growth.

How you work: 

Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.

Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.

Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.

Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.

Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.

Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.

Our approach to compensation:

We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.

Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.

To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted. 

Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

Salary Range: 

$200,000 - 230,000 OTE

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