Senior Software Engineer, Content Retrieval

The Washington Post; México; A distancia; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established news organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Content Retrieval team. The role involves architecting and maintaining cloud-based APIs in a remote working environment. Candidates should have a strong background in server-side programming, experience in scalable application design, and proficiency in English. Join us to help reinvent news delivery for audiences worldwide.

Formación

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise designing, building, and analyzing scalable web applications.
• Experience designing, building and troubleshooting multi-service applications.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement technical solutions meeting requirements.
• Iteratively deliver technical solutions improving KPIs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for resolution support.

Conocimientos

Server-side programming languages (Node.js)

API design and troubleshooting

Automated testing

Scalable web applications

English proficiency

Educación

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

Amazon Web Services

Postman

Descripción del empleo

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Senior Software Engineer, Content Retrieval

Apply locations MEX-TWP Remote Office COLOMBIA- TWP Remote Office time type Full time posted on Posted 13 Days Ago job requisition id JR-90275281

Join the future of news

We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

About Our Team

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role Matters

Arc XP, a cloud-based digital experience platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the backend engineering team responsible for Arc's content management and retrieval system. Arc XP is the SaaS division of The Washington Post, and powers more than 2000 media sites across 27 countries, reaching more than 1.5 billion unique users. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, maintaining and ensuring that our our cloud-based APIs are efficient and profitable at scale. You will also function as a member of our Lean and Agile content platform group, collaborating across teams on performance, scalability, security, and cost goals.

Motivation

• You are inspired by having developers as your customers, finding motivation in the different and creative solutions they build on your platform.

• You welcome the challenge of working at scale, aiming to deliver consistent high-quality incremental improvements to customers regularly. Your philosophy is that a project isn't complete until it's shipped.

• You find satisfaction in getting to ground truth and using it to influence decisions.

• You thrive in a collaborative environment, exchanging technical insights with peers during code reviews and design discussions. You enjoy mentoring others, fostering growth, and sharing knowledge within the team.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement technical solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements. Set a high bar for quality through automated testing, peer review, and observability technologies.

• Iteratively propose, design and deliver technical solutions that improve our KPIs and delight customers.

• Deliver value regularly by practicing Agile development. Support the development of a roadmap through refinement and estimation of new features.

• Reduce ambiguity in technical direction by actively contributing ideas and insights, and seeking clarification through questions during technical deliberations.

• Fulfill our SLAs (service-level agreements) by participating in an on-call rotation, supporting the team in resolving incidents, producing RCAs, and implementing best practices.

• Earn customer trust by upholding security best practices and participating in Arc’s security processes.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Expertise with one or more server-side programming languages, such as Node.js.

• Expertise designing, building, and analyzing scalable web applications, from the data layer to the gateway.

• Experience designing, building and troubleshooting multi-service applications in Amazon Web Services

• Preferred: Experience designing and using API design and troubleshooting tools such as Postman, and on related technologies like JSON Schema and OpenAPI/Swagger

• Experience with and enthusiasm for automated testing.

• English proficiency.

This is a fully remote position that operates on US EST hours and reports to the Engineering Lead for Content Retrieval. As a division of The Washington Post, we actively support remote work from select non-US countries. We currently have team members in Mexico, Colombia, and other parts of Latin America.

Your story awaits. Apply today!

Learn more about The Post at careers.washingtonpost.com.

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We are powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us.

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