Engineering Lead
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Closing date
- Mar 17, 2021
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- Industry
- Engineering
- Function
- Engineer, QA Engineer, IT
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc Publishing (https://www.arcpublishing.com/) 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 devops 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.
As an Engineering Lead, you will manage a team of engineers and own the technical direction of the product. You will partner with product owners, architects, and Arc clients to build a world-class, bleeding-edge set of services focusing on photo and video asset management. You will play a crucial role with opportunities to bring your unique ideas around development practices, testing, and deployment strategies to the table.
Responsibilities
- Lead full stack teams of software engineers that design, implement, instrument, test, deploy and support their own code.
- Build full stack web-based, distributed, multi-tenant, and multi-tier applications using java and javascript.
- Provide expertise to guide the technical implementation of projects with up to 50% of time spent directly working on development and architecture.
- Plan and then execute successful complex technical projects in an Agile process.
- Coach team members on a daily basis, establishing goals and conducting performance reviews.
- Own the full lifecycle of your team's QA and Operations.
- Develop a deep understanding of how our products and client solutions are built and sometimes contribute technically to client solutions.
- Understand and interpret client needs and design solutions for how to achieve them.
- Ensure adequate workload balance to ensure maximum team performance.
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain a roadmap and project plan that meets the demands of our clients.
- Assist the manager in turning roadmaps into staffing needs and a hiring strategy.
- Implement technical strategies that ensure future success of your products and teams.
- Contribute to design and architecture of systems that span multiple teams and/or products.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years experience building highly scalable customer facing applications.
- Experience managing engineers
- Experience architecting and implementing scalable SaaS or Cloud based applications.
- Experience leading the implementation of technical products and mentoring junior and senior developers.
- 5+ years of experience with Java, Spring, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, Docker and container services. Knowledge of Kafka, Jenkins is a plus.
- 2+ years of experience in SQL and relational database modeling
- 2+ years of experience working with ReactJS or other modern front-end technologies
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing engineers.
- Experience building web applications on AWS.
- Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks.
- Experience with devops teams that own the full engineering lifecycle.
- Experience analyzing application and cloud environment performance.
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.
The innovation doesn't end in the Newsroom - dozens of teams power The Washington Post. We are now hiring the next innovator - how will you Impact Tomorrow?
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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
-
1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US
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