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Front End Engineer

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Aug 11, 2019

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

Job Details

Application Instructions

Please list all professional experience and explain any gaps in employment history.

Job Description

The Washington Post is hiring a CONTRACTOR for a Front End Engineer for our Research, Experimentation and Development technology team. In this role, you will create new revenue-driving platforms for the Washington Post's commercial advertising division. This critical role will be a part of a team that is creating new, innovative marketing and advertising products, and systems to change the way publishers make money. The RED team is deeply interested in changing the fundamentals of advertising technology by building performant, competitive and opinionated tools.

Responsibilities:
  • Developing new features and applications using React
  • Translating designs and wireframes into high quality readable code
  • Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of devices and browsers
  • Collaborate with team members (RED) in designing and building highly-scalable applications and services and applications for The Washington Post, advertisers and other publishers.
  • Eagerness to explore and learn new software languages, tools and applications.
  • Contribute to existing, platforms that have a critical role in the digital landscape that supports washingtonpost.com.
  • Work with a wide variety of engineering teams, design, product and newsroom stakeholders in the support and building of newsroom and public facing tools and applications.
  • Active participation on a scrum team including story grooming, planning work backlog, work estimation, sprint planning, retros, demos, etc.

Requirements:
  • Thorough understanding of React and its core principles
  • Proficiency working with the latest ECMAScript specification (ES6)
  • Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc
  • Experiencing writing tests using frameworks such as Jest
  • Experiencing working with JavaScript on the server (NodeJS)
  • Proficiency working with HTML and CSS
  • Familiarity with Git.
  • 2+ years of building either user-facing experiences or resilient content platforms on production sites.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, equivalent field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Node, TypeScript and MongoDB.
  • Experience working with server side languages such as Python, Java, etc
  • Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks.
  • Experience building web applications on AWS.

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

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