Company and Opportunity
Legacy.com is the place where life stories live on. We are the global leader in online memorial tributes; a top-50 website in the United States, and a destination for over 40 million unique visitors each month. Founded in 1998, Legacy.com is honored to help consumers express condolences, share direct support for families, and celebrate the people who have touched their lives. Uniquely open to profound messaging at this focused moment, users respond by sharing memories, purchasing gifts, finding event information, and making plans. Legacy delivers its community-targeted content daily via 1,500 local news media partners. We continue to broaden our offerings in our mission to help people seeking information and guidance on all aspects of end-of-life. Our vision is to become a full-service end-of-life and memorialization resource.
We have a diverse and talented team of employees who come to us from many kinds of backgrounds. We have an immediate need for a Senior Software Engineer at our new Downtown Chicago office that will report to our VP, Engineering.
See our new Chicago HQ: https://www.builtinchicago.org/2019/06/06/legacycom-new-chicago-office
Position Overview
Legacy.com is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. Our Engineering team’s mission is to build and support the next generation of products, applications and services for the end-of-life and memorialization categories. Software Engineers at Legacy.com are responsible for building and supporting applications and platforms that power our online memorialization experience.
A Senior Software Engineer is a skilled developer that can efficiently write, review, test and deploy code. Senior Software Engineers are resourceful, they can draw on past experiences, know where to find answers or know how to start when iterating on a solution. A Senior Software Engineer is a resource that can guide other members of the Engineering team and collaborate with other members of the organization. A Senior Software Engineer can stitch together business strategy, applications, systems and infrastructure. A Senior Software Engineer can make thoughtful decisions independently but also lead a group to consensus on solutions and architectures. A Senior Software Engineer can partner across the organization to deliver high value solutions.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Benefits
Legacy.com offers a very generous and comprehensive benefits package, including: