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Full Stack Engineer

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Aug 18, 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 Full Stack engineer for our subscription team focusing on acquiring and retaining digital subscribers. In this role, you are directly working on a core strategic and business priority with a wide variety of teams that represent all aspects of The Post from Marketing to the Newsroom. Your job will be to rapidly iterate and deploy customer facing subscription features across The Washington Post digital landscape.

Sample projects include:
  • Prototype then deploy a new type of subscription that targets Opinions readers
  • Work with Marketing to develop new tools to work in an evolving digital landscape


Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with team members in designing and building highly-scalable backend services and applications for The Washington Post
  • Create and iterate on user facing solutions across devices and browsers.
  • Active participation on a scrum team including story grooming, planning work backlog, work estimation, sprint planning, retros, demos, etc.
  • Contribute to existing, platforms that have a critical role in supporting digital subscriptions on washingtonpost.com.
  • Work with a wide variety of engineering teams, design, product, marketing and newsroom stakeholders in the support and building of internal and public facing tools and applications.


Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, equivalent field, or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in React or Angular JavaScript frameworks
  • Proficiency in at least one server side programming language; Node or Java
  • Experience with DevOps technologies like Docker, Jenkins, and AWS Products.
  • Familiarity with Git.
  • 2+ years of creating user facing experiences on production sites.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building web applications on AWS.
  • Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks.
  • Experience with DevOps teams that own the full engineering life cycle.
  • Experience analyzing application and cloud environment performance.
  • Eagerness to explore and learn new programming languages, tools and applications.
  • Ability to quickly translate business requirements into prototypes

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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