The Athletic is a rapidly growing sports media company powered by a large global newsroom.
The company provides comprehensive stories about various teams, sports, and athletes, with a focus on professional and college teams across North America and the English Premier League.
The Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack role is remote and available only to candidates in the US and Canada.
Responsibilities include developing new features based on product specifications while optimizing for scalability and performance.
The engineer will engage in the scrum process, including sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and daily standups.
The role requires understanding technical requirements and collaborating with design and product teams to meet expectations.
The engineer will fix live bugs, triage issues, and ensure root causes are identified for long-term solutions.
Quality validation of work through manual and automated testing is expected, with engineers owning their code throughout the development lifecycle.
The position also involves coaching and mentoring junior engineers on new technologies and best practices.
Requirements:
Candidates must have 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
Familiarity with the primary tech stacks is desired: one in React (Next.js) with an Apollo/GraphQL API layer, and another in PHP (WordPress) with a REST API layer.
Experience with MySQL, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB on the backend is preferred, but not required.
All systems are hosted on AWS.
Benefits:
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000.00 - $165,000.00 USD, with total compensation varying based on education, experience, skills, and location.
The Athletic offers a comprehensive benefits package for US employees, including highly competitive employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life, and disability insurance plans.
Employees have access to savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
A 401k retirement savings plan with employer matching is provided.
Paid time off includes paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
For international candidates, similar benefits and perks are offered, competitive with the local market.
