Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Front End Subscriptions
The Washington Post1 day ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate customer-facing subscription applications and services.
- Develop React, JavaScript, and TypeScript frontend applications for checkout, offers, paywalls, product pages, subscriber lifecycle flows, and mobile integrations.
- Contribute to Java and Node.js backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, and tooling.
- Own technical solutions from architecture and implementation through deployment, observability, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Build reusable components, shared libraries, frontend patterns, and application architecture supporting performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Work with AWS infrastructure, Docker, ECS, CI/CD, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Establish observability and diagnose issues across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and deployment systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident diagnosis, mitigation, communication, and follow-up.
- Identify technical debt and performance bottlenecks and drive improvements.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards, architecture discussions, documentation, and engineering practices.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development, testing, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and operations.
Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of frontend development experience with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- At least 3 years of backend development experience with Java, Node.js, or both.
- At least 2 years of experience deploying and operating applications in AWS.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility, browser behavior, and frontend performance.
- Experience with frontend architecture, reusable components, state management, API integration, and automated testing.
- Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and distributed backend services.
- Experience with AWS services including ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with Jenkins or comparable CI/CD and deployment automation tooling.
- Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Experience building and operating containerized applications using Docker and ECS.
- Experience with production observability, logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, troubleshooting, on-call rotations, and incident response.
- Ability to independently scope and drive complex technical work from design through production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and significant hands-on use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Preferred qualifications include 7+ years of frontend experience, 4+ years of backend experience, and 3+ years operating AWS applications.
- Preferred experience includes frontend monorepos, shared component libraries, design systems, high-volume subscription or payment experiences, native mobile integrations, Datadog, Catchpoint, mentoring, and cross-team architectural influence.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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 and leadership and career development programs.
- The position works on-site five days per week, with exceptions for newsgathering and business travel.
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About The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a U.S. news organization that publishes national and international reporting across web, mobile apps, and print. It earns revenue from digital and print subscriptions, advertising, events, and licensing its Arc XP publishing platform. Founded in 1877 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it is owned by Nash Holdings, controlled by Jeff Bezos. The Post’s journalism reaches millions of readers and its software powers content sites for media and enterprise customers.