The Athletic

Software Engineer, Fullstack (Remote)

Job Description

About the Role

This team consists of Analytics, Design, Engineering, and Product and works closely with Advertising, Editorial, and Marketing.  Our team powers the core of the subscriber experience:

Content (articles, podcast player, etc)
Community (comments, live rooms, game discussions)
Curation (front page, push notifications, etc)
Search & Discovery (feeds, homepage)

As a full-stack engineer, you’ll get to work on every part of the stack: web frontend, backend API, dev ops, database, and analytics.

This role is 100% remote for candidates currently residing in either the United States or Canada.


Responsibilities
  • Work with Design and Product teams to build a web UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered.
  • Architect and build the backend/API to optimize for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.
  • Write unit, functional, and integration tests to ensure maximum code and product quality.
  • Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members.
  • Work with the team to influence technology direction.
  • Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams.
  • Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on our process and making your own suggestions for improvements.

    • Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or relevant discipline preferred.
  • We have 2 primary tech stacks, one in React (Next.js) with an Apollo/GraphQL API layer, and one in PHP (Wordpress) with a REST API layer. Data stores that we use include MySQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch. All resources are hosted on AWS (relevant services include ElasticBeanstalk, ECS, RDS, Lambda. Cloudwatch). Prior experience with any of these technologies is desired, but not required.
  • The current team is largely based in San Francisco, CA, but this role can be based in a 100% remote capacity within the United States or Canada.

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