Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Web Development
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Posted
- Aug 04, 2022
- Closes
- Sep 08, 2022
- Ref
- JR-90273832
- Function
- IT, Software Developer
- Industry
- Engineering
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Description
Overview
Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc XP is a state-of-the-art digital experience platform engineered to meet the demands of enterprise brands and media and entertainment companies around the world. An integrated ecosystem of cloud-based tools, Arc helps create and distribute content, drive digital commerce, and deliver powerful multi channel experiences to both internal and external audiences. Today, Arc powers more than 1,400 sites across 23 countries, reaching over 1.5 billion unique monthly visitors.
Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. All of our software teams use dev ops to deliver and maintain products. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market. New features and products are deployed to our customer base every day.
We are currently looking for a Senior Full Stack Web and Devops Engineer to be part of our Arc Integrations team. The Arc Integrations team builds systems to speed up and reduce cost of large data migrations during onboarding of new clients.
Motivation
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
#LI- Remote
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.
Overview
Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc XP is a state-of-the-art digital experience platform engineered to meet the demands of enterprise brands and media and entertainment companies around the world. An integrated ecosystem of cloud-based tools, Arc helps create and distribute content, drive digital commerce, and deliver powerful multi channel experiences to both internal and external audiences. Today, Arc powers more than 1,400 sites across 23 countries, reaching over 1.5 billion unique monthly visitors.
Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. All of our software teams use dev ops to deliver and maintain products. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market. New features and products are deployed to our customer base every day.
We are currently looking for a Senior Full Stack Web and Devops Engineer to be part of our Arc Integrations team. The Arc Integrations team builds systems to speed up and reduce cost of large data migrations during onboarding of new clients.
Motivation
- You are eager to evolve and grow your personal skill-set by learning and sharing knowledge about new software languages, tools and applications.
- You are motivated to contribute independently and move the team and organization forward.
- You are driven by attention to detail. You are not content when your element is off-center or your form flow is not intuitive.
- You care deeply about media. You believe in freedom of the press and are proud to work on tools that allow for the free flow of information.
- You are energized by problem-solving and love to ideate solutions for difficult problems.
Responsibilities
- Build world-class APIs and web tools by collaborating with product, development, and design
- Support production applications using CI/CD practices such as automated builds, deployments, and tests.
- Implement and respond to production application monitoring.
- Share ideas and experiences, ask questions, and strive to remove ambiguity for both oneself and one's team members.
- Build rich interactive user interfaces using modern JS frameworks.
- Own responsibility for running applications using CI/CD practices such as automated builds, deployments, and tests.
- Active participation in team agile activities such as story estimation, planning work backlog, work estimation, sprint planning, retros, demos, etc.
- Ensure high quality by writing unit tests, fixing bugs and improving system performance and reliability
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related experience
- Proven backend development as a producer and consumer of web service APIs, preferably with Node.js
- Proven frontend web development experience, preferably using ReactJS
- Strong understanding of common integration patterns
- Strong understanding of cloud computing services, preferably with AWS
- Proficiency in coding with TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, Scala of another modern programming language
- Strong DevOps experience, preferably with AWS
- Experience working with multiple common data formats (JSON, XML, CSV) and web service architectures (REST, SOAP, RPC)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Working knowledge of frontend web design guidelines
- Working knowledge of the backend integration landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of version control principles.
- Solid understanding of the agile software development methodologies
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building applications and systems using serverless components.
- Experience with one or more of the popular ESB frameworks.
- Experience building ETL services.
- Experience working with message queueing services.
#LI- Remote
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.