\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

Location: Austria, Germany, Switzerland - preferred: Vienna, Dornbirn, Berlin, rest of Europe also possible (remote)\n\nPosition: Full-time employment\n\n**ABOUT CRATE.IO**\n\nCrate.io is the developer of CrateDB, a global leading-edge IoT database, extending the limits of time-series applications. The highly scalable distributed database solution combines the performance of NoSQL with the power and simplicity of standard SQL. Designed specifically to support machine data applications and IIoT, CrateDB is optimized for time series and industrial data and runs in the cloud on Azure and Amazon as well as on the edge and on-premise.\n\nWe are a VC and corporate funded global technology company in the IOT space, both Forbes and Gartner have recognized us as cutting edge. The company is well funded with $10M+ of fresh capital we raised in our latest financing round this year. We are gearing up for hyper-growth with offices in the USA, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.\nIn addition to the CrateDB, we are developing a leading edge IOT Platform to enable Smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 initiatives with our customers globally. The solution is live today with the first lighthouse customer and expected to commercially launch later this year.\n\nWith our Analytics Platform, we are leveraging the power of CrateDB for discrete manufacturing use cases to enable the frontline workers by providing a “digital friend” to them. We build the next generation of analytics processes and tools to enable efficiency on the factory floor and help rollout teams and integration specialists to roll this out to their factories.\n\n**ABOUT THE ROLE**\n\nWe are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to strengthen our team. This role will report directly to the Lead Engineer. \n\n**WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY**\n* Join a leading VC funded tech company from the pre-B stage through the exit\n* Contribute demonstrable business impact to Crate’s growth\n* Be part of an open, collaborative culture with “Craties” from diverse backgrounds\n\n**WHAT YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR**\n\n* Maintain, improve and extend the code base of our front-end applications that power our IoT analytics platform\n* Implement web applications using state of the art front-end frameworks\n* Work closely together with the UI/UX designer\n* Ensure quality through test driven development\n* Think about performance and security as keys to build sustainable products\n* Do research and derive customer implementation\n\n**YOUR SKILLS**\n\n* Proven experience as a frontend engineer or similar role (5 years+)\n* Experience interacting with REST and GraphQl APIs\n* Experience with CI/ CD procedures and tools\n* Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills\n* Strong working experience with React and react native, other common web stack technologies nice to have (Javascript, HTML,CSS, …)\n* Comprehensive understanding of service architecture\n* High affinity to transform customer needs into software\n* Familiar with testing frameworks like Jest or Cypress\n* Craftsmanship to continuously improve and take over responsibility for existing code\n* Fluent English\n\n**NICE TO HAVE**\n\n* Work experience with agile methodologies, such as Scrum\n* Experience with CrateDB\n* Additional language skills such as Python\n\n**WHAT WE OFFER**\n\n* Competitive compensation\n* Flexible working hours\n* A variety of perks (e.g., financial allowances for public transportation, fitness, and education)\n* Participation in our Employee Stock Options Plan\n* The opportunity to become part of one of the most exciting startups in the IT scene (Winner of the 2021 [IoT Evolution:](https://crate.io/press/crate-io-receives-2021-iot-evolution-industrial-iot-product-of-the-year-award/) Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award)\n\n\nAt Crate.io, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it and support it. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. \n\nPlease mention the words **BEACH THAT STOOL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $80,000 — $110,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope