Job Description

The Washington Post is hiring a Software Engineer for our in-house image management tool. We are looking for a self-motivated engineer with a conscientious mentality and a commitment to innovate upon high-quality work. In this role, your contributions would directly support the Newsroom’s world-class photography and visual journalism.

Responsibilities

• Build dynamic new features across both the front-end and the back-end of the application.


• Refactor and improve the stability of the current application codebase.


• Support and make improvements upon the application’s cloud-based infrastructure.


• Work directly with product managers and occasionally stakeholders from either the Newsroom or other internal teams to help translate business requirements into technical tasks.


• Focus on application performance testing and tuning


• Serve in an on-call capacity.

What we’re looking for:

It’s okay to not meet 100% of these requirements! We’re primarily looking for people who meet some of these requirements and are motivated to learn new technologies and expand their skill set.

• Experience with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, AngularJS, and React.


• Experience with back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, and JUnit.


• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Docker and Jenkins.


• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as S3, ECS, EC2, and CloudWatch.


• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.


• Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.


• Experience in agile software development teams and working iteratively with designers, product managers, and stakeholders.