\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

\nThis is a fully remote position. \n\nWork on things that matter\nAd Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start. And as we work to make critical government services intuitive, accessible, and human-centered, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. If you thrive on change, want to help close the gap between consumer expectations and government services, and can see the possibilities in ambiguity, then we want you here with us. \n\nWhat matters most\nAd Hoc operates according to our commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We believe in missions larger than our individual selves and leave our egos at the door, learn from our mistakes, and iterate in order to better serve the people in our country. We prioritize building teams that represent the diversity of the people our government serves. We love the challenge of government-size projects. We want to bring skills to federal agencies, help them better meet the needs of their users, and close the gap between consumer expectations and government. \n\nBuilt for a remote life\nAd Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide distributed team since the beginning. Being remote by design allows Ad Hoc to be thoughtful and intentional about creating diverse teams and supporting them with a work environment that fits their lives. With a generous PTO policy and Slack channels for every interest (from bird watching to space nerds to parenting) our culture embraces the things happening in your life. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s embraced. \nWhat you’ll do\n\nOur ideal Back End Software Engineer knows how to build large-scale production systems in modern agile environments. They write well-structured, tested, and secure code with little feedback or guidance. They’ve designed and implemented reliable and maintainable APIs and built services that integrate with external dependencies. They can articulate how the thing they've built fits into a larger ecosystem. They’re not afraid of large, complex problems. They take an active role in planning and delivery efforts, drawing on their experience to suggest better approaches or alternatives. As an Ad Hoc Back End Engineer, you’ll be:\n\n\nShipping software that impacts the lives of millions of people\n\nUsing modern programming languages and frameworks to build scalable services that gracefully integrate with legacy systems\n\nBuilding and working with APIs to support both the digital services we deliver as well as third-party usage\n\nUsing unit and integration testing to ensure systems work as intended\n\nHelping us continuously, iteratively improve\n\n\n\nWhat we hope you'll bring\nWhat we hope you'll bring\n\nMinimum 5 years of experience developing consumer-facing web applications, services, and APIs\n\nMinimum 2 years developing web applications in Ruby on Rails\n\nExperience compiling data from several different data sources\n\nAbility to work with ambiguity\n\nExperience with modern frameworks such as React is a plus\n\nExperience working with a large distributed agile preferred\n\nExperience and understanding of at least one agile methodology such as Scrum, XP, or SAFe.\n\nExperience with Amazon Web Services, in particular EC2, S3, and RDS.\n\nSolid spelling, grammar, and communication skills.\n\n\n\n\nMore than that, our ideal candidate wants to contribute to work that is bigger than themselves, and wants to make a difference collaborating with their team. They care deeply about building better products, better relationships, and better trust in each interaction people have with their government. They believe in intuitive, easy-to-use government services. They collaborate well with designers, stakeholders, and other teams. They mentor and guide more junior engineers. They’re human-centered.\n\nAnd if you don’t check every box on the list? That doesn’t mean you can’t help us in our mission to deliver critical government services. Talk to us!\nSome basic requirements\n\n\nAll work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.\n\nYou must be legally authorized to work in the U.S now and in the future without sponsorship.\n\nAs a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust security clearance.\n\n5 years of professional software development\n\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline\n\nOur technical screening involves completing a homework assignment that is then graded blind to remove bias. We do not do tricky, unreliable whiteboarding tests. You can read more about our homework here.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about engineering at Ad Hoc.\nBenefits\n\n\nCompany-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance\n\nVanguard 401K Plan\n\nUnlimited Vacation\n\nContinuing Education/Annual Conference Attendance Stipend\n\n\n\n\nAd Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.\n\nIn support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $101,570 - $136,994 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. \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, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Amazon, Ruby and Junior 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
\n\n#Location\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico, United States