Apply for the Senior Engineer role at The Atlantic.
Overview
The Atlantic is looking for an innovative, analytical, and curious Senior Engineer. 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 to amplify our impact and reach in this role. We pride ourselves on maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture that values continuous learning, elegant problem solving, supportive teamwork, and delivering value.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of full stack software development experience, including 3+ years of full stack web development (frontend and backend)
- Professional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one backend language (Python preferred)
- Experience deploying and maintaining production systems using cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with React/React Native, Django, GraphQL, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Terraform)
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role (leading projects, mentoring, or architectural decisions)
- Experience designing scalable systems and working with AWS/GCP cloud services
- Background in media/publishing platforms with third party integrations and data pipelines
Responsibilities
- Write, test, debug, document, and deploy code across our full stack.
- Partner with Product and Design teams to translate ambiguous requirements into well scoped technical solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, stand ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical documentation.
- Participate in on call rotation (outside of standard business hours) to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents, ensuring system reliability and uptime.
- Research and recommend technical solutions for future product features, evaluating new technologies and presenting recommendations with clear trade off analysis.
- Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, and helping maintain quality standards across the engineering department.
- Work flexible hours, including nights, early mornings, and weekends, as required.
Candidate Profile
- Proficient in modern full stack web development and able to design RESTful or GraphQL microservices, run apps locally in Docker, and deploy to production.
- Strong knowledge of established architectures and industry best practices, staying current with security, accessibility, and performance standards.
- Curious and open to new solutions and industry trends, evaluating whether new technology truly solves a problem.
- Excellent communicator, explaining technical concepts to non technical colleagues and providing constructive code review feedback.
- Pragmatic technologist who seeks the simplest viable solution while balancing current and near term needs.
- Critical thinker who breaks product requirements into technical tasks, identifies dependencies and risks, and executes with minimal oversight.
- Adaptable and enthusiastic about working on varied projects of different sizes, using different technologies.
- Team player who offers help, shares knowledge, encourages collaboration, and thrives in a discussion driven environment.
- Committed to the pursuit of truth, recognizing the importance of journalism and wanting to help it thrive.
Compensation
Salary minimum: $115,000; salary maximum: $150,000.
Employment Type
Full time; Guild Position.
About The Atlantic
The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third longest running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.
Equal Opportunity
The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to diversity and encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
COVID 19 Vaccination Policy
Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate's successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID 19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID 19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.