Principal Software Engineer (remote)
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- DC
- Closing date
- Oct 5, 2022
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- Industry
- Engineering
- Function
- School and Teaching, IT, Principal
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
The Washington Post is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for the Carta engineering team. The Carta team maintains the email newsletter platform for The Washington Post, works across the spectrum of public-facing newsletters as well as tools that are essential for the work of our editors and reporters. Our ideal candidate has strong vision for strategic thinking to improve the scalability and performance of the Carta platform. You would work at the enterprise level, providing engineering solutions to the organization on cross-functional issues and working alongside technical teams to develop and maintain architectures and software.
Motivation:
- You can work alongside and provides guidance to staff in general technical matters.
- You provide knowledge transfer to others in his/her areas of expertise.
- You can work alongside software engineering teams to perform technical research and analysis, strategy development, and/or complex architectural design and development.
- You can lead in the technical and implementation aspects of new products, platforms, and architecture.
- You can participate in after-hours and on-call support rotation as needed.
- You are comfortable with frequent newsroom and other interaction across The Post and can demonstrate ability to establish effective working relationships with all levels of management.
Responsibilities:
- Works alongside the engineering team in technology experimentation, evaluation and prototyping efforts, as well as development, deployment and maintenance of software systems.
- Performs knowledge transfer to others in his/her areas of expertise.
- Leads/participates in the technical and implementation aspects of new products, platforms, and architecture.
- Leads efforts to evaluate and recommend technologies and solutions to issues.
- Defines, documents and enforces architectural policies, principles and procedures.
- Conducts and evaluates software performance benchmarks, documenting and presenting results.
- Participates in after-hours and on-call support rotation as needed.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; focus in computer science, engineering, business or related technical field preferred.
Experience:
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant technical professional experience required including a minimum of 3 years of experience in systems integration, systems analysis and design, and object-oriented development (can be acquired concurrently).
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
- Applied knowledge of AWS, including services such as ECS, EC2, and Lambda.
- Applied knowledge of industry standard database technology, including sizing, troubleshooting and performance tuning. MongoDB and Postgres experience preferred.
- Applied knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, and JavaScript, Typescript knowledge is preferred as well.
- Possesses full understanding of diverse technologies, including client/server and web-centric technologies, among others.
- Demonstrates in-depth experience specifying large and/or complex solutions for strategic systems or projects.
- Has proven ability to think strategically about the application of technology to meet business needs. Demonstrates ability to provide thought leadership to the organization, pertaining to technical topics and strategies.
- Demonstrates facilitation and meeting management skills, including ability to negotiate, to elicit cooperation from others, and to gain consensus.
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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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