Principal Software Engineer- Backend
Full Time
United States
$107,200 - $178,600 a year
Posted
Job description
Job Description
Owned by Jeff Bezos, Arc XP (https://www.arcxp.com/) is a state-of-the-art digital experience platform engineered to meet the demands of enterprise brands and media and entertainment companies around the world. An integrated ecosystem of cloud-based tools, Arc helps create and distribute content, drive digital commerce, and deliver powerful multichannel experiences to both internal and external audiences. Today, Arc powers more than 1,400 sites across 23 countries, reaching over 1.5 billion unique monthly visitors.
Built 100% on AWS, the Arc platform follows a microservice architecture. All our software teams use devops to deliver and maintain products. Our processes are lightweight, which allows our teams to innovate quickly to bring new ideas to market. New features and products are deployed to our customer base every day. The platform is operated by Arc as Software as a Service.
We are currently looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our platform engineering team to architect, implement and support new capabilities within Arc. You will have the opportunity partner with product owners, engineers and clients to build APIs and platform capabilities for identity, product information, merchandising and order management.
Motivation
- Stay abreast of back-end technology trends.
- You want to be an example to the organization on professional software development practices.
- You want to be a mentor and a technical leader.
Responsibilities
- Mentors others to raise the level of quality in everything we produce.
- Looks for innovative opportunities to experiment and to boldly confront problems.
- Blends technical and product strategies to ensure teams are delivering value.
- Establishes engineering best practices, architectural patterns for the teams.
- Understands the importance and promotes stability, performance and scalability.
- Produces API and usage documentation for internal and external audiences.
- Monitors the performance and correctness of our backend services using tools like DataDog and Splunk.
Minimum Qualifications
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years experience building highly-scalable customer facing applications.
- Proficient in Java and experienced in at least one other programming language.
- Proficient knowledge of multithreading in Java.
- Demonstrated experience using one or more RDMSs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Demonstrated experience profiling and performance tuning Java applications, and using monitoring tools for production application monitoring.
- Capable of designing, building and testing web services and APIs.
- Knowledge of REST, Service Oriented Architecture, OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD tooling with an emphasis on building quality code and speed to market.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into high-level designs.
- Ability to be subject matter expert for multiple areas of expertise while also representing areas owned by other engineers within the engineering team.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building, deploying and supporting applications on AWS.
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platform applications.
- Experience with asynchronous programming.
- Experience with Vert.x framework/Akka.
- Experience with 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.
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Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:
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Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
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Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
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Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
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Nine paid holidays and two personal days
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20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
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Robust mental health resources
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Backup care and caregiver concierge services
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Gender affirming services
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Pet insurance
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Free Post digital subscription
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Leadership and career development program
Benefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status
The Washington Post includes salary ranges for certain positions to comply with local pay transparency laws. The salary range for this position is:
107,200.00 - 178,600.00 USD Annual
The actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.
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