\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

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test to help us build our QA & automation processes, procedures, and tools. You will be responsible for integration and regression testing our frontend, mobile, and backend applications, and will be an advocate for a modern DevOps-first automation-rich development and release pipeline. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test you will: \n\n\n* Lead and create robust test documentation including test plans, test cases, and test result analysis.\n\n* Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables.\n\n* Build, run and maintain automated functional, integration and regression tests to help improve software quality.\n\n* Build and maintain tooling to facilitate testing in the CI/CD pipelines.\n\n* Design metrics for performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other systems.\n\n* Work deeply with our in-house and field operations team to identify, document, and regression test issues as they occur in the wild\n\n* Collaborate closely and daily with the design, product, engineering teams and other key teams at Knock.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Sr. SDET\n\n* Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and analyzing test results.\n\n* Experience in building automated functional, integration and regression tests.\n\n* Experience with testing automation frameworks.\n\n* Experience in building automated UI testing for both web and mobile.\n\n* Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Programming proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and other scripted or interpreted languages.\n\n* Knowledge of SQL (MySQL or Postgres).\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n\n\n* Team and/or technical leadership experience.\n\n* Development and test experience in Node.js and React Native.\n\n* Experience with native Android and iOS automated test frameworks.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with Docker-based ecosystems and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Testing, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Amazon, Android 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

\nOur homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz.\n\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Software Engineer in Test to help us build our QA & automation processes, procedures, and tools. You will be responsible for integration and regression testing our frontend, mobile, and backend applications, and will be an advocate for a modern DevOps-first automation-rich development and release pipeline. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products and making the world amazing for homebuyers.\n\n\nAt Knock, we have fun, we move fast, we support and celebrate our fellow teammates, and we live by our POPSICLE values.\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a Software Engineer in Test you will: \n\n\n* Lead and create robust test documentation including test plans, test cases, and test result analysis.\n\n* Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of deliverables.\n\n* Build, run and maintain automated functional, integration and regression tests to help improve software quality.\n\n* Build and maintain tooling to facilitate testing in the CI/CD pipelines.\n\n* Design metrics for performance, reliability, stability and compatibility with other systems.\n\n* Work deeply with our in-house and field operations team to identify, document, and regression test issues as they occur in the wild\n\n* Collaborate closely and daily with the design, product, engineering teams and other key teams at Knock.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for Knockstars who have: \n\n\n* Must be U.S. based.\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n\n* Minimum of 5 years of experience as a software quality assurance engineer.\n\n* Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, test cases, and analyzing test results.\n\n* Experience in building automated functional, integration and regression tests.\n\n* Experience with testing automation frameworks.\n\n* Experience in building automated UI testing for both web and mobile.\n\n* Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.\n\n* A strong customer-first mindset and data-driven approach to their work\n\n* Programming proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and other scripted or interpreted languages.\n\n* Knowledge of SQL (MySQL or Postgres).\n\n* Proven success working remotely in prior positions & are experienced working with a distributed, national team \n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n\n\n* Team and/or technical leadership experience.\n\n* Development and test experience in Node.js and React Native.\n\n* Experience with native Android and iOS automated test frameworks.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with Docker-based ecosystems and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS or Kubernetes.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat We Can Offer You:\n\n\n* An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.\n\n* Talented, passionate and mission-driven peers disrupting the status quo.\n\n* Competitive cash, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time.\n\n* Flexibility to live and work anywhere within the United States. As we are a distributed company and engineering team, we are open to any U.S. location for this role.\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Dallas-Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Denver with more on the way. In fact, we are proud to be a distributed company with employees in 21 different states. This is an amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building a multi-billion dollar consumer brand in an industry that is long overdue for a new way of doing things. You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.\n\n\nKnock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\n\nPlease no recruitment firm or agency inquiries, you will not receive a reply from us. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Testing, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Amazon, Android 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