Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Arc XP, a division of The Washington Post, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the backend engineering team responsible for Arc's content management system. Arc XP powers more than 1500 sites across 24 countries, reaching more than 1.5 billion unique users. In this role, you will develop extensible platforms that allow Arc clients to design world-class experiences for their customers. You will collaborate with other teams at Arc to achieve operational excellence, including performance, scalability, security, and cost goals. This role operates on ET hours and reports to the engineering lead of the Content Import team.

Motivational Fit

• You’re inspired to see what developers build on your platform.
• You welcome the challenge of working at scale and don’t think it’s real until it’s shipped.
• You find satisfaction in getting to ground truth and using it to influence decisions.
• You value your colleagues' perspectives because you’ve seen collaboration spark epiphanies neither party would have come to alone.
• Commitment to iterative prototyping, development, and releasing.

• Implement technical solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements. Set a high bar for quality through automated testing, peer review, and observability technologies.
• Deliver value regularly by committing to iterative prototyping, refining requirements, and development in an Agile environment.
• Fulfill our SLAs (service-level agreements) by participating in an on-call rotation, supporting the team in resolving incidents, producing RCAs, and implementing best practices.
• Earn customer trust by upholding security best practices and participating in Arc’s security processes.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on infrastructure or service operations and quality.

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in two or more server-side programming languages with the ability to work in a language agnostic environment primarily in JavaScript/Typescript.
• Experience articulating designs and development processes to technical and non-technical team members in a verbal and written format.
• Experience analyzing applications, software diagrams, and code in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience working with ambiguous problems and resolving them with collaborative engineering solutions.
• Preferred: Experience with asynchronous programming patterns.
• Preferred: Experience with making decisions around trade-offs & design patterns emerging in web-services based technologies.
• Preferred: Experience working with containers, orchestration tools, AWS, and asynchronous services within AWS.
• Preferred: Experience with NoSQL & SQL Database solutions, designs, and schema best practices.

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
• Robust mental health resources
• Backup care and caregiver concierge services
• Gender affirming services
• Pet insurance
• Free Post digital subscription
• Leadership and career development program.