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Senior Software Engineer

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Mar 19, 2021

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Job Description

As a senior engineer, you will help set the direction of the design and development of our evolving ecosystem of high performing SaaS products in Arc Publishing. You will partner with product owners, architects, and Arc clients to build a world-class, bleeding-edge set of services focusing on video content management, live streaming, video editing, and video ad monetization. You will play a crucial role with opportunities to bring your unique ideas around development practices, testing, and deployment strategies to the table.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop new features/optimizations on our custom built Audio and Video players.
  • Build dynamic new features across both the front-end and the back-end of Audio/Video/Photo content management systems.
  • Integrate photo/video/audio content across The Post's publishing landscape and platforms
  • Collaborate with designers to implement and extend our Design System across components.
  • Use your experience to help guide technical decisions and participate in technical architecture discussions.
  • Enhance the ad monetization and performance of Audio and Video players
  • Work directly with product managers and occasionally stakeholders from either the Newsroom or other internal teams to help translate business requirements into technical tasks.
  • Serve in an on-call capacity.


Requirements:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience preferably working on a SaaS product
  • Experienced in building web-based, distributed, multi-tenant, and multi-tier applications using Java and JavaScript.
  • Capable of designing, building, and testing web services and APIs.
  • Good knowledge of Spring, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, Docker, and container services.
  • Experience working with VOD and live video asset management and encoding.
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into high-level designs and act as a subject matter expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment, and support across our full platform
  • Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling
  • Knowledge of NoSQL, queues, caches is a plus


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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
 

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

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