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Manager – Software Engineering – Adaptive Experiences
Company | The Washington Post |
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Location | Washington, DC, USA |
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Salary | $144600 – $241100 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, equivalent field, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years + of experience working as a software engineer
- Experience working with back-end languages Java and Python
- Proficiency with back-end frameworks such as Flask and Nodejs
- Experience working with front-end technologies HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Proficiency with web frameworks such as Next, Astro and others
- Experience working with front end framework React
- Strong experience in command line (Unix & Linux) navigation and revision tracking (Git)
- Experience with DevOps technologies such as Docker and Jenkins
- Experience working with designers and design frameworks
- Varied experience with databases, MongoDB and MySQL preferred
- Experience writing unit and integration tests to ensure code quality
- Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills for technical and business audiences.
Responsibilities
- Mentor and coach talented full stack engineers
- Recruit new engineers and grow a strong team
- Prioritize and delegate tasks effectively
- Manage team members across projects in a fast paced cross functional environment
- Provide foundational support and empower team members to own their work
- Drive forward and provide a vision on engineering goals and technology usage
- Work with stakeholders in engineering and product to prioritize milestones and mitigate business risks
- Manage an on call cycle and ensure constant coverage on critical systems
- Take ownership of stability of our site experiences
- Provide powerful insights by surfacing metrics and performance data to stakeholders and other engineers
- Work closely with other engineering teams to understand their systems and work within the constraints of different technical stacks
- Establish and foster a standard of engineer excellence that will maintain stability and quality across all of our systems
- Ensure quality code and cloud practices are being used by the team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Varied experience with databases, MongoDB and MySQL preferred.