Job Description
About the Role
The Athletic is rapidly innovating in the world of journalism. We've developed a high quality subscription product that users love enough to give us a 4.9 rating in the App Store, and we see best in class retention rates when it's time for users to renew their subscription. We're building a product that users love and we want to keep growing it. That's where you come in!
The team works closely with our Newsroom staff scattered across the world, along with our other product and engineering teams. You'll be trusted and encouraged to dream up and try out your own ideas and experiments. You will be joining a team of generalists and will have the opportunity to work on the whole stack: frontend, backend, database, and APIs.
The current team is largely based in Melbourne and Sydney, but this role can be based in a 100% remote capacity within Australia.
Responsibilities
Work with Product team to implement growth-related features and experiments on the website and in our backend APIs.Suggest and prototype product improvements and features aimed at growing our subscriber base.Architect and build solutions that take into account performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.Work with the team to influence technology direction.Requirements
Experience with video capabilities is highly desirable but not required.Entrepreneurial mindset and desire to work in fast-paced, growth environment.2+ years full-stack engineering development.Experience delivering products working across the stack—you’re comfortable building the frontend, and want to grow your skills in the backend and designing the data persistence layer.Experience with Javascript, React, Apollo, and AWS.The current team is largely based in Melbourne and Sydney, but this role can be based in a 100% remote capacity within Australia.