Senior Software Engineer - Cpt

Job Description

OVERVIEW

Working on a team with other developers, DevOps, and QA engineers, the Senior Software Engineer will be a full participant in the planning, architecture, implementation and support of the tools and workflows used by our content creators to produce our award-winning content. The engineer contributes to the mission of the organization by providing high quality solutions that make the jobs of our content creators easier.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Write clean, efficient and reusable code based on product specifications
• Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution
• Aid in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipeline implementations
• Knowledge share, write technical designs & participate in code reviews
• Mentor and coach junior engineers on code quality and best practices
• Consult with principal engineers across the department while designing comprehensive solutions
• Provide input on system design and architecture within the feature areas and services owned by the team
• Work closely with other software engineers, partner teams, dev ops engineers, infrastructure engineers, product designers, QA engineers, engineering managers and product managers
• Improve team/development processes
• Join agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint retros, sprint reviews and more
• Join our on-call rotation
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

WORK LOCATION: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.

REQUIRED SKILLS
• Fluency in Java
• Strong Object-Oriented programming skills
• Familiarity with SQL and RDBMS technologies
• Fluency in JavaScript / TypeScript
• Knowledge of web development best practices and coding standards
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs that utilize cloud infrastructure such as AWS
• Ability to develop software that is scalable and performant under high loads
• Familiarity with deploying and monitoring production systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github, Jenkins, CodeFresh, or equivalent)
• Experience writing unit and other automated tests
• Fluency in or working knowledge of PHP (or alternative back-end language)

PREFERRED SKILLS
• Experience developing on a SAAS platform, preferably a CMS
• Experience with Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform, including Lambda, EC2s, ASGs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, RDS and CodeDeploy
• Familiarity with Github Actions
• Experience using performance monitoring and log aggregation applications (Datadog, New Relic)
• Knowledge and experience with different caching layers of caching (browser, DNS, web server, application, etc) and caching technologies/services (Redis, Elasticache, CDNs, AWS CloudFront)
• Exposure to NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)
• Experience with React and Redux
• Experience with Java framework Struts 2
• A passion for NPR's content and/or familiarity with our digital products

The minimum annualized salary for this position is $128,000 - maximum 135,000. Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you.

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