Software Engineer (Intermediate)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We’re building the next-generation Golf Club Management technology platform and seeking an Intermediate Backend Software Engineer who can autonomously deliver working features throughout the full software lifecycle. Our core product, BRS Premier, already serves hundreds of golf clubs across Central Europe with a comprehensive B2B solution covering membership management, point-of-sale, tee-time booking, and course administration. We have an exciting future with expansion into new global markets.

This isn’t just a coding role. You’ll take ownership of significant platform areas, contribute to modernisation initiatives, and help set the standard for code quality on the team.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver software features and improvements across major portions of our backend microservices, spanning the full development lifecycle from design through to deployment and maintenance.
• Document your team’s software. How it’s constructed, tested, operated, its security posture, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
• Actively train and onboard new teammates, helping them understand the platform and become productive contributors.
• Participate actively in code reviews and provide meaningful feedback to others, including more senior engineers.
• Ensure root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don’t settle for workarounds and advocate for stable long-term fixes.
• Work with stakeholders and peers to understand business and customer value, ensuring we deliver the right solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers on your team, helping them grow through constructive feedback and guidance.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS)
• Core Languages & Frameworks: Java 17, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
• Database: PostgreSQL (multi-tenant)
• Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (OpenTelemetry)
• Practices: CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Cloud Native Microservices Architecture
• Containers: Docker

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience with Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud).
• Experience with microservices architecture and API development.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including query optimisation and schema design.
• Proficiency across the full software development lifecycle: design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver working features end-to-end, from specification through to production.
• Effective communication within your team about the work you deliver.
• Experience with Docker and containerised development and deployment workflows.

Desirable

• Experience with AWS managed services (RDS, S3, SES, ECS).
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and operational support practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to multi-tenant application architecture.

Additional Information

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.

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 candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

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.