Senior Front-end Engineer / Media Asset Management
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Closing date
- Oct 1, 2022
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- Industry
- Engineering, Media / Journalism / Advertising
- Function
- Engineer, QA Engineer, IT
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc XP ( www.arcxp.com ) is a cloud-based digital experience platform that helps enterprise companies, retail brands and media and entertainment organizations create and distribute content, drive digital commerce, and deliver powerful multichannel experiences. A division of The Washington Post, Arc XP has powered the digital transformation of customers across the globe, currently serving more than 1,500 sites in 25+ countries that reach more than 1.5 billion unique visitors monthly.
Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market.
Job Summary
The Senior Front-end Engineer will work closely with our product owner to manage planned roadmap work and identify new roadmap initiatives. Provide guidance to the feature squad by leading projects through planning/design/implementation and breaking down tasks into manageable workloads. Seek out new technologies and best practices for improving Innovation. Coach/mentor junior team members to improve team knowledge.
Motivation
- You are excited about following best practices in front-end development and translating that excitement into building thoughtful UI components that are configurable and reusable.
- You champion the front-end work the team is doing and actively promote it across teams.
- You are eager to solve challenging problems and collaborate with the team to solution
- You are comfortable in a remote team and promote transparency and collaboration
- You own and see features/problems/issues through from start to finish
- Take point on feature design and feature implementation on Arc's Media editing suite of tools which our customers use to create and deliver digital assets to hundreds of global websites.
- Building reusable React components used to manage digital assets by Arc's editorial systems and shared across teams.
- Working closely with our Product Manager to define the Video and Photo centers technical roadmap.
- Working closely with our Design team to build a user-experience that delights our customers and their users.
- Monitoring the behavior and performance of Video and Photo products in production using tools like Pendo and DataDog.
- Coaching and mentoring engineers on the team
Qualifications Must-Haves
- 4+ years experience building customer-facing web applications.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- Strong proficiency in CSS.
- Fluent in English
Nice to Haves
- Experience building reusable React components used by other teams or companies.
- Experience instrumenting front-end code to analyze performance and correctness.
- Experience with testing tools like Cypress.
Here's the tech we're actively building with (we don't expect you to be an expert in all of this, and you'll primarily be focused on the frontend):
- Backend Languages and Frameworks:
- Java + Spring Boot
- TypeScript + AWS Lambda
- Database: MongoDB
- Event Messaging:
- AWS SNS+SQS
- Kafka
- Workflow Orchestration: Temporal
- Cloud Provider: AWS (especially the AWS Elemental Services )
- Frontend: React
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.
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
- Website
- https://careers.washingtonpost.com/
- Location
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1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US
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