About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.

Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

This Senior Software Engineer will build software applications and services for Ancestry. You will use a variety of programming languages and technologies to create useful applications, services and tools. The successful candidate will also analyze and update existing applications based on the specific need or create brand new applications. This engineer will work closely with a variety of development teams at Ancestry and will need to take ownership of a problem and drive it through to completion. You must be a self-starter, self-directed, taking personal ownership and aggressively driving problems to resolution. The ability to work well with others and build consensus are required for this position.

This role supports a team that builds high-traffic, customer-facing pages and experiences. You'll be writing both client-side code that runs in the browser and server-side code that integrates with other Ancestry services to retrieve and display data. The pages you work on will help customers view and interact with their genealogy trees, manage stories and photos related to their ancestors, and collaborate with others who share similar family history interests.

What you will do…

1. Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure software services
2. Contribute to architecture and technical decisions across projects
3. Analyze, maintain, and improve existing applications, or develop new ones from scratch as needed
4. Collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams to define and deliver quality solutions
5. Take ownership of problems and drive them through to resolution
6. Write clean, maintainable code with unit and integration tests
7. Participate in code reviews and design discussions
8. Document your work clearly for other developers to build on
9. Participate in an on-call rotation to support service availability

Who you are...

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
2. 5+ years of professional experience building service-oriented applications
3. Strong experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
4. Strong experience with React and Node.js
5. Comfortable working with Agile development practices
6. Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests
7. Strong interpersonal and communication skills
8. Ability to build consensus and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
9. Proactive, self-motivated, and willing to jump in where needed

Nice to have…

1. Experience with C# and .NET
2. Familiarity with AWS services and cloud-based architecture
3. Understanding of cross-cutting concerns (e.g., logging, authentication, caching, performance)

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours. Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Archives.com, and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at http://ancestry.com/careers

As a signatory of the ParityPledge in Support of Women and the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position: $111,690 - $139,590 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience. We will share detailed compensation data for a specific location during the recruiting process. Read more about our benefits HERE.

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Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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