The Washington Post-posted 5 days ago
$119,700 - $199,300/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Washington, DC
Publishing Industries
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The Washington Post is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to support the site's rendering web engine, design system and content delivery. This role builds and supports applications that enable purchasing Washington Post content around the world. This role requires a close relationship with the newsroom's editorial staff and its publishing systems.

  • Deliver value to our users by implementing features and maintaining applications across our stack.
  • Ensure high-quality, maintainable code by writing clean, performant, and well-documented software and regularly reviewing colleagues' code.
  • Engage with your fellow engineers to create and maintain a dynamic and scalable architecture.
  • Understand our cloud infrastructure, AWS, experiment and learn how it supports our implementations.
  • This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule is on a rotating basis and will be determined a couple of months after you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, an equivalent field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • A minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience in a team setting.
  • Proficiency in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern front-end development technology and best practices.
  • Experience working with Python.
  • Comfort with command line (Unix & Linux) navigation and revision tracking (Git)
  • Knowledge about DevOps technologies such as Docker and Jenkins.
  • Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as S3, EC2, ELB, SES, and CloudWatch.
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
  • Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
  • Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
  • Nine paid holidays and two personal days
  • 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
  • Robust mental health resources
  • Backup care and caregiver concierge services
  • Gender affirming services
  • Pet insurance
  • Free Post digital subscription
  • Leadership and career development programs
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