Senior Back End Developer
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Application Instructions

Please list all professional experience and explain any gaps in employment history.

Job Description

The Washington Post is seeking a Full Time Employee or a Long Term Contractor for their open senior back end developer role.

As a senior developer, you will help set the direction of the design and development of our evolving ecosystem of high performing SaaS products in Arc Publishing. You will partner with product owners, architects and Arc clients to build a world class, bleeding edge set of services focusing on delivering subscriptions, checkout, metering, offer and campaign management. You will play a crucial role with opportunities to bring your unique ideas around development practices, testing and deployment strategies to the table.

What you need for this position

* Experienced in building web based, distributed, multi-tenant and multi-tier architecture using java or other major platforms (Scala, Python, etc.)


* Capable of designing, building and testing web services and APIs.


* Good knowledge of Spring, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI


* Ability to translate complex technical concepts into high-level designs and act as a subject matter expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment and support across our full platform


* Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling


* Knowledge of NoSQL, queues, caches is a plus


* Good understanding of AWS or other cloud technologies


* Worked with CI/CD tools with emphasis on building quality code and speed to market.


* Familiarity with modern front-end technologies such as javascript and single page application frameworks and their interactions with APIs



Please apply for immediate consideration.