Full Stack Software Engineer, Subscriptions

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We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Subscriptions team at The Washington Post. This role is centered on building and evolving high-quality customer-facing web experiences while contributing across the full application stack. You will own meaningful features and technical work, collaborate on engineering decisions, and help build reliable, maintainable systems that support our subscription products.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with React and modern JavaScript/Type Script, along with experience in Java - our primary backend language - and Node.js. You should be comfortable working across AWS, CI/CD, production systems, and monorepo-based codebases. We value initiative, collaboration, strong communication, and meaningful day-to-day use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development, problem solving, and effectiveness.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for the customer experiences and systems you build.

• Passionate about creating reliable, performant, accessible, and maintainable web applications.

• Proactive and comfortable taking ownership of features and technical problems.

• Interested in working across frontend applications, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.

• Actively uses AI as part of day-to-day engineering and looks for new ways to improve development, quality, and productivity.

• Enjoys collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and communicating technical ideas clearly.

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate customer-facing subscription experiences using React and modern JavaScript/Type Script.

• Contribute to frontend engineering decisions involving component design, state management, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.

• Build and integrate with backend services and APIs, primarily in Java, while contributing to Node.js services, tooling, and automation where appropriate.

• Own features and technical solutions from implementation through deployment, observability, production support, and continuous improvement.

• Work effectively within monorepo-based codebases, contributing to shared libraries, tooling, build systems, and development practices.

• Contribute to AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and developer tooling that support reliable software delivery.

• Help operate and improve engineering platforms and services such as Jenkins and Airflow.

• Participate in the team’s on‑call rotation, including incident response, troubleshooting, and follow‑up improvements.

• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver effective solutions.

• Communicate progress, technical decisions, risks, and dependencies clearly and proactively.

• Use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle and explore effective ways to apply it to implementation, testing, debugging, investigation, documentation, and automation.

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting production applications.

• 2+ years of frontend development experience with React and modern JavaScript or Type Script.

• Experience building or integrating with backend services and APIs, preferably using Java.

• Experience with Node.js in areas such as services, APIs, automation, build tooling, or developer…