What to Expect \n\nWild Alaskan Company is a data-driven, tech-enabled marketing and cold chain logistics company that sells seafood. Our mission is to accelerate humanity’s transition to sustainable food systems by fostering meaningful, interconnected relationships between human beings, wild seafood, and the planet. To meet this goal, WAC is constantly striving to innovate technology that facilitates (a) a more connected and vertically integrated supply chain via a proprietary end-to-end logistics platform, (b) a seamless buying experience via best-in-class ecommerce and POS solutions, and (c) human-to-human connectivity via proprietary CRM, content platform and member portal. To that end, WAC is seeking a hardworking and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join the team.\nWhat You'll Do\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will be joining a growing team of talented, driven engineers who are passionate about their work and the mission. You will have an opportunity to make an important difference in the future of sustainable food systems by building technology that enables the efficient production, access, and distribution of food to individuals across the globe. You’ll be bringing your expertise to the technology stack of Wild Alaskan’s proprietary order and inventory management systems, as well as our ecommerce and content platforms.\n\nYou will work as an individual contributor in collaboration with the VP of Software Architecture, Digital Product leadership, Product Managers, Principal Engineer, other Senior Engineers, and the Data Science and Analytics Team to fully support and expand our home-grown technology stack in Laravel and Vue.js.\nYour Day-to-Day\n\n\n* Develop robust, scalable, and efficient web applications using Laravel and Vue.js, ensuring high performance and optimal user experience.\n\n* Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.\n\n* Design and implement database structures and queries to support application functionality and performance.\n\n* Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following coding standards and best practices.\n\n* Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to your peers to ensure code quality and adherence to standards.\n\n* Optimize application performance through performance profiling, code optimization, and caching techniques.\n\n* Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, identify root causes and implement effective solutions.\n\n* Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies and apply them to improve our development processes and methodologies.\n\n* Share your knowledge and expertise to foster team growth.\n\n* Collaborate with the QA team to develop comprehensive test plans and ensure high-quality software delivery.\n\n* Participate in Agile development methodologies, including sprint planning, task estimation, and progress tracking.\n\n* Continuously monitor and improve application security, identifying and mitigating potential vulnerabilities.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring   \n\n\n* Mastery of Laravel and Vue.js with 8+ years of experience.\n\n* Strong OOP and code planning proficiency.\n\n* Strong TDD and testing methodologies (PHPUnit.)\n\n* Mastery of building RESTful APIs and single-page applications.\n\n* Proficiency in front-end web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and related frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS).\n\n* Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and ability to write efficient SQL queries.\n\n* Mastery of version control systems (e.g., Git) and familiarity with collaborative development workflows (we use feature branching and rebase).\n\n* Familiarity with deployment and hosting environments, including cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and containerization (e.g., Docker).\n\n* Strong understanding of best-in-class database design practices.\n\n* Strong understanding of frontend performance to optimize user experience and response times.\n\n* Ability to identify technical debt and develop effective strategies to mitigate it.\n\n* Ability to identify gaps in the technology used and propose suitable solutions for enhancing system functionality.\n\n* Proficiency in automated testing to ensure the reliability and quality of the software system.\n\n* Ability to plan and execute incremental improvements to continuously enhance the software system's performance and functionality. \n\n* Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Self-sufficient and capable of working independently to complete tasks and troubleshoot issues.\n\n* Self-motivated with a passion for learning and staying updated with the latest technologies and industry trends.\n\n\n\nNice to Haves\n\n\n* Knowledge of server-side rendering (SSR) and modern JavaScript Framework tools (e.g., Nuxt.js)\n\n* Knowledge of Typescript\n\n* Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines\n\n* Experience with UI/UX\n\n* E-commerce Experience\n\n* Experience using BI Tools such as Looker and Google Analytics\n\n* Food Industry experience\n\n* Experience working in start-up environments\n\n\n\nLocation \n\n100% remote with occasional travel for in-person team and companywide retreats. \n\nThe starting salary range for this position is $130,000 - $170,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Wild Alaskan’s benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO, safe/sick time, vacation, parental leave and more, as well as a delicious box of free fish every month. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, JavaScript, Laravel, Cloud, Senior, Marketing, Engineer and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/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\nDenver, Colorado, United States

\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