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The Atlantic · 23 hours ago

Senior Engineer

Washington DC - The Wharf

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$115K/yr - $150K/yr

6+ years exp

The Atlantic is looking for an innovative, analytical, and curious Senior Engineer to support a more thoughtful American public by powering and expanding their Pulitzer Prize winning journalism. In this role, you will build products to amplify their impact and reach, collaborating with Product and Design teams while maintaining system reliability and uptime.

Information ServicesNewsPublishing

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Hit the ground running to write, test, debug, document, and deploy code across our full stack

Partner with the Product and Design teams to collaboratively translate ambiguous requirements into well-scoped technical solutions

Participate in and contribute to code reviews, stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical documentation

Participate in on-call rotation (outside of standard business hours) to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents, ensuring system reliability and uptime

Research and recommend technical solutions for future product features, evaluating new technologies and presenting recommendations with clear tradeoff analysis

Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, and helping maintain quality standards across the engineering department

The role will at times include night, early-morning, and weekend work

Qualification

Full-stack developmentJavaScript/TypeScriptCloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)PythonReact/React NativeDjangoGraphQLContainerization (Docker)CI/CD pipelinesScalable systems designMedia/publishing platformsData pipelinesTechnical leadership

Required

6+ years of full-stack software development experience, including 3+ years of full-stack web development (frontend and backend)

Professional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one backend language (Python preferred)

Experience deploying and maintaining production systems using cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), containerization, and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred

Experience with React/React Native, Django, GraphQL, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Terraform)

2+ years in a technical leadership role (leading projects, mentoring, or architectural decisions)

Experience designing scalable systems and working with AWS/GCP cloud services

Background in media/publishing platforms with third-party integrations and data pipelines

Company

The Atlantic

The Atlantic provides its readers with articles related to literature, political science, cultural trends, technology, and more. It is a sub-organization of Atlantic Media.

Founded in 1857

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.theatlantic.com

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