Senior Back End Engineer

Job Description

The Washington Post is hiring a Senior Back End Engineer for our subscription team to focus on building and supporting internal and externally facing systems. The Digital Subscriptions org is a fast paced, high growth environment that respects its engineers and customers. We are looking for a self-driven engineer with a conscientious mentality and a commitment to innovate with high quality work. In this role, you have a direct impact on The Post’s top line performance and the opportunity to work with colleagues from all parts of the company from Marketing to the Newsroom.  

Motivation

• You have a passion to find areas where you can bring change and have an impact with minimal direction and guidance.
• You are obsessed with understanding the big picture and how your work fits in
• You think outside the box and find unique solutions to business problems including solutions to problems that the business doesn’t yet know they have.
• You have a passion to write flexible and reusable code.
• You are energized with learning new technologies and platforms.
• You have an eye for detail and passion for quality.
• You will directly impact the work of our colleagues across the organization with every release.
• You will have opportunities to work on multiple projects and deliver a variety of features and services.
• You love to collaborate to figure out solutions to the toughest problems.
• You have an aptitude to simplify and communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Work across many backend services which power internal tools and subscriber experiences both onsite and for our native mobile apps.
• Write high-quality code with best practices and design patterns in mind and engage in code review/quality assurance.
• Work with your partners from different teams and disciplines to create a scalable experimentation and personalization architecture.
• Consult with your partners in Product to form goals and break work into atomic units.
• Optimize the underlying AWS infrastructure for subscription services for performance and cost.
• Use your experience to help guide technical decisions and participate in technical architecture discussions.
• This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined a couple of months after you join, considering team size and other variables.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

It’s okay to not meet 100% of these requirements! We’re primarily looking for people who meet some of these requirements and are motivated to learn new technologies and expand their skill set.

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years’ experience with Java
• 3+ years’ experience with back-end technologies such as Java EE, Spring Boot, and JUnit.
• 3+ years’ experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Postgres.
• 3+ years’ experience with Application servers such as Wildfly, Glassfish, Tomcat.
• 3+ years’ experience with Web servers such as httpd and Nginx.
• 3+ years’ experience with message/event buses such as JMS, ActiveMq, SQS/SNS (AWS).
• 3+ years’ experience with engineering tools such as DataDog, Splunk, and Catchpoint
• 2+ years’ experience with DevOps technologies such as Docker and Jenkins.
• 2+ years’ experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as S3, ECS, EC2, and CloudWatch.
• Experience in agile software development teams and working iteratively with designers, product managers, and stakeholders.
• A keen eye for detail, good use of polymorphism, and the ability to write code that promotes code reuse. 

Preferred Qualification

• 5+ years’ experience with Java
• 5+ years’ experience with back-end technologies such as Java EE, Spring Boot, and JUnit.
• 5+ years’ experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Postgres.
• 5+ years’ experience with Application servers such as Wildfly, Glassfish, Tomcat.
• 5+ years’ experience with Web servers such as httpd and Nginx.
• 5+ years’ experience with message/event buses such as JMS, ActiveMq, SQS/SNS (AWS).
• 2+ years’ of experience with Front End technologies such as JS, React, NextJS

Compensation and Benefits

Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:

• 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 holi