Full-Stack Subscriptions Engineer — Shape News Experiences

washpost; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Washington Post is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Subscriptions team. You will build and evolve high-quality customer-facing web experiences across the full stack, owning features from implementation through production support.

You will work with React, TypeScript, Java, and Node.js, across AWS and CI/CD pipelines, in a monorepo-based codebase, contributing to tooling, automation, and observability.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production applications.
• 2+ years of frontend development experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate customer-facing subscription experiences using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Contribute to frontend engineering decisions involving component design, state management, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.
• Build and integrate with backend services and APIs, primarily in Java, while contributing to Node.js services, tooling, and automation where appropriate.
• Own features and technical solutions from implementation through deployment, observability, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Work effectively within monorepo-based codebases, contributing to shared libraries, tooling, build systems, and development practices.
• Contribute to AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and developer tooling that support reliable software delivery.
• Help operate and improve engineering platforms and services such as Jenkins and Airflow.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including incident response, troubleshooting, and follow-up improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver effective solutions.
• Communicate progress, technical decisions, risks, and dependencies clearly and proactively.
• Use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle and explore effective ways to apply it to implementation, testing, debugging, investigation, documentation, and automation.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Java

Node.js

AWS

CI/CD

Monorepo

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Airflow

Job description

The Washington Post is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Subscriptions team. You will build and evolve high-quality customer-facing web experiences across the full stack, owning features from implementation through production support.

You will work with React, TypeScript, Java, and Node.js, across AWS and CI/CD pipelines, in a monorepo-based codebase, contributing to tooling, automation, and observability.