The Washington Post

Full Stack Software Engineer, Subscriptions 2

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4 days ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$99k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate customer-facing subscription experiences using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Contribute to frontend architecture, component design, state management, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.
  • Build and integrate backend services and APIs primarily in Java, while contributing to Node.js services, tooling, and automation.
  • Own features and technical solutions through implementation, deployment, observability, production support, and continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to monorepo shared libraries, tooling, build systems, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and developer tooling.
  • Help operate and improve Jenkins, Airflow, and other engineering platforms and services.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and follow-up improvements.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and stakeholders while communicating technical decisions, risks, and dependencies.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools for implementation, testing, debugging, investigation, documentation, and automation.

Requirements

  • BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production applications.
  • At least 2 years of frontend development experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Experience building or integrating backend services and APIs, preferably with Java.
  • Experience with Node.js for services, APIs, automation, build tooling, or developer tooling.
  • Understanding of frontend fundamentals including component design, state management, testing, performance, accessibility, responsive design, and web standards.
  • Experience with shared or monorepo-based codebases, common libraries, dependencies, or development tooling.
  • Familiarity with AWS, CI/CD, production observability, and troubleshooting production applications.
  • Ability to independently deliver well-defined features and collaborate effectively with technical and product stakeholders.
  • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools in day-to-day development.
  • Preferred qualifications include 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, strong React and Java experience, AWS Infrastructure as Code, containerized workloads, production support, on-call participation, and familiarity with ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, Jenkins, Airflow, or DataDog.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Company-paid pension and 401(k) match.
  • Three weeks of vacation, up to three weeks of paid sick leave, nine paid holidays, and two personal days.
  • Twenty weeks of paid parental leave for any new parent.
  • Mental health resources, backup care, and caregiver concierge services.
  • Gender-affirming services and pet insurance.
  • Free Post digital subscription.
  • Leadership and career development programs.
  • On-site work five days per week, with certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSDatadogJavaJavaScriptJenkinsNode.jsReactTypeScript

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