The Washington Post is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer for the Revenue Engine team within its Arc XP platform division. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting new capabilities that power monetization features, directly impacting client revenue growth. You will focus on building robust back-end systems and UIs for authentication, entitlements, targeting, and check-out.

What You'll Do

Architect, implement and support new capabilities within the Arc XP platform.
Partner with product owners, engineers, and clients to build APIs, UIs, and platform capabilities for authentication, entitlements, targeting, and check-out.
Act as a go-to expert across many front-end and back-end services, with a focus on the back-end.
Write high-quality, maintainable code with automated testing, monitoring and alerting.
Participate in and contribute to all Agile ceremonies, and help refine our processes for continuous improvement.
Work independently and collaboratively to ensure delivery of team goals.
Plan and direct software design projects with other engineers on the team.
Contribute to solution design to ensure swift delivery of technical solutions.
Lead and participate in the solution design review process, asking thoughtful questions and raising relevant concerns.
Advocate for and implement engineering best practices.
Lead team growth via mentoring, knowledge sharing and documentation.
Produce API and usage documentation for internal and external audiences.
Monitor the performance and correctness of our backend services in production using tools like DataDog, Splunk and AWS CloudWatch.
Contribute to a DevOps team responsible for on-call support as part of a rotating schedule.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years experience building highly-scalable customer facing applications.
Strong proficiency in Java, with solid understanding of RESTful API design and back-end systems.
Hands-on experience in designing, building, testing, maintaining, monitoring & scaling web services and APIs at scale.
Experience building UIs using modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the React framework.
Experience writing automated tests to ensure code quality.
Hands-on experience with using and operating RDMSs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. at scale.
Experience with DevOps technologies like Docker and CI/CD systems such as Github Actions, AWS CodePipeline.
Knowledge of authentication protocols (OAuth), service-oriented architecture, PCI and other regulatory/compliance standards.
Ability to lead by example and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

Experience building, deploying and supporting applications on AWS.
Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platform applications.
Experience with Vert.x or Play framework/Akka.
Experience with asynchronous programming patterns.
Knowledge of Elasticsearch or other search capability.
Knowledge of NoSQL, queues, caches.
Familiarity with modern front-end patterns such as single page application frameworks and their interactions with APIs with SDKs.
Familiarity with Playwright for end-to-end testing and automation.

Technical Stack

Languages & Frameworks: Java, React, Vert.x, Play framework, Akka
APIs & Services: RESTful API, OAuth
Front-end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, NoSQL
Infrastructure & DevOps: Docker, CI/CD, Github Actions, AWS CodePipeline, AWS
Monitoring: DataDog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch

Team & Environment

You will join the Revenue Engine team within Arc XP. The team is collaborative, remote-first, and driven by a deep investigative spirit and innovation. Communication and autonomy are key.