Senior Front-End Engineer, Digital Asset Management

Job Description

Arc XP is the digital publishing platform built to power storytelling at scale for media companies. With AI-powered solutions for editorial efficiency, compelling audience experiences, and content monetization, we provide everything modern media businesses need to unlock growth. Originally developed for The Washington Post, today Arc XP is trusted by leading media brands across the globe — delivering billions of monthly page views across more than 2,500 sites.

Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives, mentor teammates, and help drive engineering excellence across our team. You’ll work autonomously and collaboratively to design scalable solutions, improve our development practices, and contribute to the overall success of our product and engineering teams.

This role requires deep technical knowledge, leadership maturity, and a strong sense of ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as a go-to expert in several areas of the codebase with a broad, in-depth skillset

• Writes clear, maintainable code with automated testing, alerting, and monitoring

• Participates in and contributes to all Agile ceremonies

• Participates in and leads solution design reviews, asking thoughtful questions and raising relevant concerns

• Improves the team’s testing frameworks and strategy

• Develop and set standards for development of front end react applications

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive product improvements

• Advocates for and implements unit and integration test improvements

• Identifies root causes of production issues, contributes to risk assessments, and helps prevent recurrence

• Contributes to solution design to ensure operational costs are managed appropriately

• Looks for opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve development processes

• Works independently and ensures delivery of team goals

• Contributes to a DevOps team responsible for on-call support as part of a rotating schedule.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

• 5 years experience in software development building highly-scalable customer facing applications.

• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.)

• Experience working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the React framework.

• Experience with Jest and React Testing Library for component and unit testing

• Familiarity with Playwright for end-to-end testing and automation.

• Ability to lead by example and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Bonus Points For

• Contributions to open-source projects or internal engineering initiatives

• Knowledge of AWS, Video Technologies, Tailwind.

Our Tech Stack

Here’s the tech we’re actively building with (we don’t expect you to be an expert in all of this, and you’ll primarily be focused on the front-end):

• Frontend: React, AngularJS, Tailwind

• Backend Languages and Frameworks:

  • Java + Spring Boot

  • TypeScript + AWS Lambda

• Database: MongoDB, Amazon Aurora

• Cloud Provider: AWS (especially the AWS Elemental Services)

Who is a fit for this role?

• You are eager to solve challenging problems and collaborate with the team to improve our application UI.

• You have high technical curiosity and are always looking for better solutions

• You are comfortable in a remote team and promote transparency and collaboration

• You own and see features/problems/issues through from start to finish

Ready to lead impactful work and grow with a strong engineering culture? Apply now and be a part of something meaningful.

The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed. 

The innovation doesn’t end in the Newsroom – dozens of teams power The Washington Post.  We are now hiring the next innovator – how will you Impact Tomorrow?

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