Senior Full-Stack Developer - AI-First (Python, React)

University of Alabama Libraries; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Medical

Tuition reimbursement

Training

Job summary

U.S. News & World Report is seeking a Senior Software Developer (Python, React, AI) to join our tech team in a hybrid New York/DC area. You will build data-driven web applications, applying AI-first approaches to improve workflows and product quality.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and analysts, mentor colleagues, and help shape architecture while delivering clean, well-documented code across front-end and back-end layers.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years of full stack experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, skills, agents, automations.
• Modern JavaScript frameworks, such as React.
• Web styling with CSS preprocessors or CSS-in-JS.
• Modern JavaScript patterns and ES6.
• Server-side technologies, such as Python, Java, or NodeJS.
• Databases, such as PostgreSQL.
• Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux or Mac OS X, along with the shells and command-line tools available in those environments.
• Version control, such as Git.

Responsibilities

• A key contributor for a team of developers working with one of our verticals.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, mentor developers.
• Employ an AI-first approach to day-to-day investigation & development.
• Develop and maintain clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Make code architecture decisions.
• Review code for quality.
• Serve as a technical role model.
• Senior team members are responsible for promoting the overall quality of our team and technology, beyond just focusing on their own individual contributions.

Job description

U.S. News & World Report is seeking a Senior Software Developer (Python, React, AI) to join our tech team in a hybrid New York/DC area. You will build data-driven web applications, applying AI-first approaches to improve workflows and product quality.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and analysts, mentor colleagues, and help shape architecture while delivering clean, well-documented code across front-end and back-end layers.