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Back End Engineer

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Sep 17, 2022

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Industry
Engineering
Function
Engineer, QA Engineer, IT
Hours
Full Time
Career Level
Experienced (Non-Manager)
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Job Details

Job Description

Job Summary

The Washington Post is seeking a Software Engineer for our Subscriptions Engineering team. This team of engineers focus on acquiring and retaining digital subscribers across our platforms. As a backend engineer, you will build features, services and tools for our subscribers and the subscriptions business.

You will be part of a fast paced, collaborative team that supports the full lifecycle of our subscribers and delivers high quality products. You will have an opportunity to work with colleagues from all parts of the company from Marketing to the Newsroom. This role reports to a Director of Engineering.

Motivation
  • You are energized with learning new technologies and platforms
  • You have an eye for detail and passion for quality
  • You are obsessed with understanding the big picture and how your work fits in
  • You will have opportunities to work on multiple projects and deliver a variety of features and services.
  • You are driven to solve the toughest problems and love to collaborate to figure out solutions
  • You have an aptitude to simplify and communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
  • You have a passion to write flexible and reusable code


Responsibilities
  • Deliver enhancements across many backend services which power subscriber experiences onsite and in native mobile apps.
  • Write high-quality code with best practices and design patterns in mind
  • Engage in code review and quality assurance processes
  • Collaborate with partners in Product, Marketing, Analytics and Accounting to define sprint goals and break development work into atomic units.
  • Optimize the underlying AWS infrastructure for subscription services for performance and cost.
  • Guide technical decisions and drive technical architecture decisions
  • Participating in the on-call rotation. An on-call schedule will be determined a couple of months after you join, taking into account team size and other variables.


Qualifications

  • Minimum of 3+ years of development experience
  • An established track record of development with Java EE; familiarity with other frameworks such as Play! And Spring is valued
  • Practical experience with message/event buses such as JMS and SQS/SNS (AWS).
  • Exposure to Application servers such as Wildfly, Glassfish, Tomcat and Web servers such as httpd and Nginx
  • Knowledge of DevOps technologies like Docker, Jenkins, and AWS Products.


The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed.

The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?

#washpostlife

Company

Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!


Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.

More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
Life and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Adoption assistance
Domestic partner benefits
Employee assistance program
Employee referral program
 

Company info
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Location
1301 K Street, N.W.
 Washington
DC
20036
US
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