Senior Engineer

The Atlantic is looking for an innovative, analytical, and curious Senior Engineer to join our Monetization & Growth team. We aim to support a more thoughtful American public by powering and expanding our Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism. Guided by our readers and informed by data, you will build products and systems that amplify our impact and reach. We pride ourselves on maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture that values continuous learning, elegant problem solving, supportive teamwork, and delivering value.

Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience building and evolving production web products

Experience working with advertising systems, monetization integrations, and/or ad-supported digital products

Experience building and debugging user-facing product experiences in close partnership with product and design

Experience owning technical work in production, including troubleshooting, operational responsibility, and sound engineering judgment

Understanding of how third-party integrations, performance, and product decisions can affect advertising or revenue outcomes

Ability to work through ambiguity, break complex problems into technical plans, and drive execution with appropriate stakeholder communication

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with modern web application architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and deployment workflows

Familiarity with direct-sold and programmatic advertising workflows, audience activation, or third-party monetization vendors

Experience improving performance for ad-supported experiences, including latency, rendering behavior, layout stability, and core web vitals

Strong frontend judgment around responsive layouts, embedded third-party experiences, and debugging placement or creative-sizing issues

Experience supporting product experiences across both web and app surfaces

Familiarity with audience data, targeting, experimentation, consent, or measurement systems2+ years in a technical leadership role, whether through leading projects, mentoring engineers, or shaping architectural decisions

Background in media, publishing, subscriptions, or other consumer product environments with meaningful third-party integrations and data flows

As a Senior Engineer at The Atlantic, you will Write, test, debug, document, deploy, and maintain code across our full stack

Build and improve systems that support monetization, advertising, and reader-facing product experiences

Partner with Product and Design to turn ambiguous requirements into well-scoped technical solutions

Work closely with the Mobile Engineering team on app monetization efforts while remaining anchored on Monetization & Growth priorities

Help evaluate, integrate, and improve third-party platforms and vendors that support advertising, targeting, experimentation, and monetization

Improve ad-supported product experiences with a focus on performance, reliability, layout stability, and reader experience

Participate in and contribute to code reviews, sprint planning, technical documentation, and broader engineering collaboration

Participate in an on-call rotation outside standard business hours to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues

Research and recommend technical approaches for future product and platform improvements, presenting tradeoffs clearly

Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, and helping maintain a high bar for quality across the engineering organization

Balance revenue impact, implementation complexity, system health, and user experience when making technical decisions

Work effectively across product, data, revenue, legal, and vendor stakeholders on business-critical systems with real operational dependencies

The role will at times include night, early-morning, and weekend work.

As an Atlantic Engineer, you areA talented programmer: you are proficient in modern full-stack web development and write clean, maintainable code Knowledgeable: you work effectively within established architectures and follow industry best practices around security, accessibility, and performance

Flexible: you are curious, adaptable, and open to new tools and approaches when they genuinely solve a problemA strong communicator: you communicate clearly and proactively with both technical and non-technical partnersA pragmatic technologist: you gravitate toward the simplest viable solution that balances current and near-term needsA critical thinker: you can…