Software Engineer II

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

The Opportunity:

Join Fandango's Platform Operations team as a Software Engineer II, where you'll help build and enhance the tools and systems that improve developer productivity across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, and Fandango at Home.

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Platform Operations, you'll collaborate with experienced engineers to develop platform capabilities, improve internal tooling, and contribute to scalable engineering solutions. This role offers an opportunity to learn, grow, and make meaningful contributions while working on products that support engineering teams across the organization.

Why This Role Matters:

Developer productivity is critical to delivering great experiences for millions of customers. In this role, you'll help build and maintain the platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate software more efficiently while growing your technical expertise alongside a collaborative team.

Work Environment:

This is a fully remote position. While the role is remote, team members are expected to participate in periodic in-person collaboration opportunities (approximately 10% travel) to support team connection, planning, and business needs.

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of internal platform tools and services under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Build and enhance backend services, APIs, and data models that support platform capabilities across multiple products.
• Develop user-friendly frontend experiences for internal tools using React and Next.js.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following established engineering standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, Platform, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to deliver reliable technical solutions.
• Assist with monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting applications using logging, metrics, and observability tools.
• Support software deployments through CI/CD pipelines and participate in maintaining healthy production environments.
• Contribute to technical documentation, code reviews, and continuous improvements to engineering processes and development workflows.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with guidance from senior team members as experien

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education or practical experience.
• Demonstrated programming experience through internships, co-ops, academic projects, open-source contributions, or up to 2 years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with one or more programming languages such as JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Exposure to modern web development frameworks such as React through coursework, projects, or professional experience.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs, databases, and software development fundamentals.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of software testing concepts and a willingness to write maintainable, well-tested code.
• Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and a desire to continuously learn and grow as a software engineer.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a team-oriented environment

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Internship or project experience building web applications or internal tools.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS through coursework or personal projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and modern software development workflows.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar technologies.
• Interest in developer productivity, platform engineering, or improving engineering workflows.

How We Do It:

Success in this role means demonstrating the behaviors that define how we work at Versant:

• Trust: Deliver quality work, take ownership of your assignments, and ask for help when needed.
• Teamwork: Collaborate respectfully with teammates, contribute to shared goals, and learn from others.
• Transparency: Communicate openly about progress, challenges, and opportunities to improve.
• Agility: Be adaptable, embrace feedback, and continuously develop your technical and professional skills.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Show curiosity, take initiative to learn new technologies, and look for ways to improve the developer experience.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Work on high-impact platforms at the intersection of sports, media, and technology
• Opportunity to shape data strategy and influence decision-making at scale
• Remote-first flexibility with meaningful opportunities for in-person collaboration and connection
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and growth opportunities across Versant’s portfolio

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.