\nEach day you will work with a cross-functional team of brilliant professionals combining business, design, product, user experience and engineering expertise, working relentlessly to push the boundaries of what’s possible and paving the road for the future of news and entertainment media.\n\nThe Audience Technology group is looking for an experienced, talented and knowledgeable Software Engineer to join the Consumer/Network Services team responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our microservices, core backend APIs, and systems that power donor/subscriber conversion experiences on NPR platforms . These are the API’s and services that drive innovation and engagement across NPR’s audience facing digital platforms and member station touch points.\n\nWe are looking for someone to help develop, support and maintain our audience revenue platforms which include donations and our premium podcast offering. Examples of technology you’ll work with include our payment processing solution (Stripe), the systems powering our Podcast Subscription Service (NPR+). You will be a vital contributor to NPR’s efforts to increase financial support from our audience for our mission as we build the technology needed to service long term sustainable growth.\n\nYou’ll also work on the Listening and Identity services, which directly power the NPR One and NPR mobile applications as well as our NPR One Alexa skill. These services provide NPR content recommendations directly to thousands of users on a daily basis. You’ll also collaborate closely with our client-side engineering teams who manage NPR.org and the NPR mobile app.\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with DMU. \n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Write clean, efficient and reusable code based on product specifications\n\n* Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution\n\n* Aid in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipeline implementations\n\n* Knowledge share, write technical designs & participate in code reviews\n\n* Mentor and coach junior engineers on code quality and best practices\n\n* Consult with senior engineers across the department while designing comprehensive solutions\n\n* Provide input on system design and architecture within the feature areas and services owned by the team\n\n* Work closely with other software engineers, partner teams, dev ops engineers, infrastructure engineers, product designers, QA engineers, engineering managers and product managers\n\n* Improve team/development processes\n\n* Join agile ceremonies,including daily stand-ups, sprint retros, sprint reviews and more\n\n* Join our on-call rotation\n\n* Other duties as assigned\n\n\n\n\nThe above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Fluency in or working knowledge of PHP (or alternative back-end language)\n\n* Fluency in JavaScript / TypeScript\n\n* Fluency in or working knowledge of PHP (or alternative back-end language)\n\n* Experience in developing and working with RESTful APIs that utilize cloud infrastructure such as AWS\n\n* Ability to develop software that is scalable and performant under high loads.\n\n* Familiarity with SQL and RDBMS technologies \n\n* Strong Object-Oriented programming skills \n\n* Familiarity with deploying and monitoring production systems\n\n* Experience writing unit and other automated tests\n\n* Knowledge of web development best practices, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, deployment, rollback, testing, monitoring\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n\n* Experience with Stripe or other payment processing platforms.\n\n* Experience with Supporting Cast or other podcast subscription platforms.\n\n* Previous work in PCI-compliant environments, or comparable security experience\n\n* Experience with CRM platforms used by NPR and Member stations such as Salesforce \n\n* Advanced experience with Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform, including Lambda, EC2s, ASGs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, RDS and CodeDeploy\n\n* Familiarity with Google BigQuery\n\n* Additional programming languages and frameworks fluency (for example, Python)\n\n* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Jenkins, CodeFresh, or equivalent)\n\n* Experience using performance monitoring and log aggregation applications (Datadog, New Relic)\n\n* Knowledge and experience with different caching layers of caching (browser, DNS, web server, application, etc) and caching technologies/services (Redis, Elasticache, CDNs, AWS CloudFront)\n\n* Exposure to NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)\n\n* Experience with React and Redux\n\n* A/B testing experience \n\n* A passion for NPR’s content and/or familiarity with our digital products\n\n\n\n\nWORK LOCATION\n\nRemote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.\n\nJOB TYPE\n\nThis is a full time, exempt position.\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\nSalary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $117,968  -  121,507 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.\n\nBenefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. \n\nDoes this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Testing, JavaScript, Cloud, PHP, NoSQL, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States

\nDeeply rooted in all of us are reasons for Why we make the decisions we do. At PracticeGenius we equip thousands of businesses around the globe with tools and services that more effectively engage and align their business goals and initiatives with those of their customers, advocates, and employees. \n\nBy combining the principles of behavioral economics and choice architecture with gamification, reward-loyalty systems, and social engagement functionality we’ve created a scalable platform that helps businesses of all sizes add contextual interactions and incentives to their most valued relationships.\n\nAccomplishing this takes a focused effort from a talented team. Culturally we pride ourselves on the diversity that is celebrated amongst our teams and share an affinity for intelligent minds, quality work, and exceptional customer care. We have employees distributed throughout the US and offer a remote-friendly culture and flexible in-office positions.\n\nOverview\n\nAs a Software Engineer at PracticeGenius, you’ll have a significant impact on a product used by millions of users as well as the team behind it. You’ll do this through a combination of writing code, participating in code review, collaborating remotely with engineering and non-engineering team members, and most importantly contributing your own unique experiences and perspective.\n\nOver the last several years we've made significant strides towards improving our tech stack and engineering culture. We are committed to this as a continual journey. Some technologies you'll be working with are: Laravel (primarily JSON REST APIs), MySQL, Elasticsearch, Javascript, React/Redux, webpack, CI (continuous integration), automated testing on both frontend and backend code, automated deployments, AWS, and more.\n\nJoin us as we develop fresh new product offerings as well as help drive our continued mission of improving and replacing legacy systems, constantly adopting new technologies in an environment where you are empowered to experiment and free to fail safely.\n\nWho Are You?\n\n\n* You care about product, think about end users, and take pride in the quality of your work.\n\n* Introvert or extrovert, you've got a phenomenal personality and respect for others.\n\n* You enjoy the constant challenges and learning that come with software development.\n\n* You’re not afraid to raise concerns, suggest improvements, or question the status quo.\n\n* You seek to learn from others as well as share your own knowledge and experience.\n\n* You’re a good and curious person looking to be a big part of a small team.\n\n\n\n\nWhat Are Your Skills?\n\n\n* You are proficient in PHP (Laravel experience is a plus).\n\n* You are experienced and confident in managing MySQL in production.\n\n* You communicate effectively whether on video/audio calls or in a chat environment.\n\n* You can analyze a problem and break it down into small, achievable chunks.\n\n* You can act on feedback from others and provide helpful feedback to others.\n\n* You know how to contribute to and work effectively on a distributed, remote team.\n\n* You know how to research, explore and successfully introduce new technologies.\n\n\n\n\nExamples of profiles that are relevant to us\n\n*You’ve likely had experience that falls into one or more scenarios such as:\n\n\n* Led or played a major role in the development of a system involving multiple software developers and/or teams.\n\n* Held significant ownership of a software project from its early stages, through initial development, to release and maintenance.\n\n* Revitalized and/or replaced a legacy system with more modern, appropriate technology.\n\n* Built a sizable authenticated (e.g. OAuth, JWT, etc) RESTful API-based system.\n\n* Deployed and maintained a load balanced server environment with multiple web-servers.\n\n* Introduced or owned backend technologies such as ElasticSearch, Memcached, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.\n\n* Identified and optimized performance issues on demanding processes, whether they were database or application code oriented.\n\n\n\n\nCompensation and Benefits\n\n\n* We offer competitive salaries.\n\n* We offer several health benefit plans and a company funded FSA.\n\n* New iMac or Macbook Pro of your choice, monitors, stand up desk, and more…\n\n* Paid subscriptions/software to help you grow and excel (PhpStorm, Laracasts, egghead.io, Amazon books, etc...)\n\n* Ample paid time off, flexible work schedule, and a healthy work-life balance.\n\n* Remote-friendly. Our engineering team is fully distributed across the Western US. USA candidates only please.\n\n\n\n\nWe welcome applicants of all backgrounds, gender, age, and race. If you are unsure whether you meet the requirements or have any questions, please reach out and we'd be happy to help!\n\nWell...if this all sounds good to you and you think we might have a fit, please proceed! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, Amazon, Laravel, PHP and Excel jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nJob Description\n\n Gubagoo Inc., a fast growing provider of messaging solutions for automotive dealers is looking for passionate and creative developers to join our team building the next generation of automotive consumer messaging technology. You will work directly with our wonderful development team to support our existing technology, and build the future of automotive.\n\n This is a full-time position. The development team works remotely (from home) using video and other solutions for daily communication. Very fun and passionate work environment with a young and exciting team. It’s important that you fit in with the team and culture as we work closely together on a daily basis. Additionally, you must be able to keep pace with the expertise of our team members. We don’t count hours, only work quality/output. \n\n Our technology involves real-time transactions and tracking for hundreds of thousands of visitors per day. As a full-stack developer (with more backend focus), you'll work with primarily with PHP, and there will be opportunities work with other technology such as NodeJS, front-end technology in HTML/CSS/JQuery, and several data stores including MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB. Our system is extremely high-load providing a wonderful learning experience in a professional high-load environment. We have multiple applications that comprise our system including both desktop and mobile applications.\n\n About Gubagoo\n\nGubagoo, a Florida-based technology company, is one of the fastest growing software providers to the automotive industry. We’re consistently leading, creating new technology and products including behavioral live chat, VoIP, targeted digital advertising and mobile engagement.\n\n Skills & Requirements\n\n We expect to see:\n\n\n* 5+ years software development experience\n\n* 5+ years experience with PHP\n\n* 4+ years experience with front-end Javascript and jQuery\n\n* Up-to-date knowledge of modern HTML, CSS and JS\n\n* Experience interfacing with third-party APIs and frameworks\n\n* Strong personal and communication skills\n\n* Experience with MySQL and Git\n\n\n\n\nWe like to see:\n\n\n* Experience with Zend Framework, Yii, PhalconPHP, PHPUnit\n\n* Redis, Socket.io, NodeJS, Facebook/Twitter API, Amazon AWS/RDS\n\n\n\n\nSalary: Commensurate with experience. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to PHP, Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Video, Amazon, CSS, Mobile and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n