\nThe Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. PJMF works in partnership with public, private, and social institutions to drive progress on our most pressing challenges, including digital health, climate change, broad digital access, and data maturity in the social sector.\n\n\nThe Patrick J McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is seeking an experienced, multi-faceted and self-driven Software Development Engineer (SDE). This role sits within the Data Solutions team and will be directly engaged with the development, deployment and maintenance of data and AI products that will drive positive social impact around the world. The charter of the Data Solutions team is to identify, develop and deploy strategic data and AI solutions, focused on unlocking opportunities and addressing broad challenges the social good sector is facing now, and in the near future. The SDE is responsible for full stack development of cloud solutions that are based around ML model predictions, using a rapid prototyping development approach. We are a small, high performance team and in many ways function as a startup. As such, the ideal candidate will be someone who can develop an end-to-end solution around which our ML products will be deployed.\n\n\n\nHow you will make an impact\n* Work closely with the Technical Product Manager, along with partners and end-users, to understand their challenges in order to build effective and safe products\n* Understand end-user needs to build applications that can solve their challenges\n* Prototype, develop, test and deploy highly reliable, safe and scalable full stack solutions\n* Ability to develop frontend and backend applications to support and integrate with our data and AI solutions\n* Monitor and maintain application performance, functionality, scalability and security\n* Develop secure, modularized, well-documented and reusable code\n* Employ rapid prototyping techniques to quickly develop and iterate on product deployment and fast integration of end-user feedback loop\n* Integrate necessary data technologies, platforms, tools, and 3rd party tools needed for product deployment and functionality\n* Ensure appropriate maintenance, bug fix and feature requests are resolved\n* Create appropriate system diagrams and documentation\n\n\n\nWhat you'll need to succeed:\n* Experience - Demonstrated experience in full stack development and deployment\n* Technologies - Strong programming experience with Python, Scala, Java, Javascript or similar languages. Strong production experience with using cloud services and infrastructure, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) tools. Experience with CI/CD, software bug tracking, version control and feature request management, using tools like Jenkins, Jira, GitHub, etc. Experience with build systems (make, gradle, etc) and package management (pip, etc). Experience with SQL database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc and NoSQL systems such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, HBase, etc\n* Learning - This role will require an individual with an appetite for (quickly) learning and applying different technologies, programming languages, and techniques needed to build the required solutions\n* Communication - Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, engineers, partners and end-users. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent technical writing and documentation skills\n* Teamwork - Effective team player who understands the responsibility every individual brings to the table and how to encourage and drive results from each team member\n* High Performance - Ability to go outside your comfort zone to learn new technologies and methodologies to ensure successful and timely completion of product development\n* Results-oriented - Highly organized and detail-oriented, self-driven and able to adapt to learning and implementing new technologies, and creative in solving issues as they arise\n* Cultural alignment - An advocate for social progress; interest in emerging technologies and their ability to advance societal outcomes\n* Work Eligibility - Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time\n\n\n\nWhat we offer:\n* Compensation – Anticipated starting salary range of $128,000 - $156,000, with flexibility based on experience\n* Health Coverage – Foundation-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, spouses/domestic partners, and dependents. HSA/FSA plans, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage\n* Long-term Rewards – 401(k) retirement plan with generous matching up to 6% of annual pay, plus an additional discretionary match at the end of year\n* Flexible PTO – Unlimited paid time off, which allows team members to take the time they need for vacation or illness so they can return to work able to contribute fully to our mission. The foundation recognizes 11 paid national holidays per year and may also announce closure for local, regional, or state holidays\n* Remote Work Environment - Ability to work 100% remotely, but not alone - with mature, socially minded professionals\n* Wellness Support – Access to Ginger, Gympass, Headspace, and SmartSpend Plus, along with financial well-being providers\n* Parental Leave – Up to 6 months of gender-neutral paid leave for parents and caregivers when they have a new addition to their families\n* Learning Reimbursements – Foundation policy encouraging employees to explore development opportunities such as peer learning, internal trainings, and external activities; savings on student loans (available via insurance provider)\n* Philanthropic Gift Matching – Opportunity for team members to support vulnerable communities, reflecting PJMF’s commitment to social impact\n\n\n\n\n\nThe attributes listed above represent our current thinking for the role. You can be a great candidate even if you don't fit everything we've described below. You can also have important skills we haven't thought of. If that's you - even if you’re on the fence - we encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself!\n\n\nCore to PJMF’s mission is inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). We apply the IDEA framework to all we do, from growing a diverse team within the foundation to coalition building with organizations and people around the world, and to democratizing the development and rewards of AI and data. We have built an environment that celebrates the differences in backgrounds and experiences. PJMF invests in activities that lead to greater inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in how AI and data are conceptualized, developed, applied, and deployed. We are applying the same framework as our team grows and expands. We encourage and invite members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. \n\n\nThe Patrick J. McGovern Foundation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.\n\n\nIt is important to us that our hiring process is accessible to everyone. If you require accommodations to participate in the interview process, please let us know when you apply. \n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Cloud, NoSQL, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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\nUnited States

\nApplication Deadline: Monday, November 20th at 5:00 PM EST \n\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 Senior Software Engineer to join the Data/Content Services team responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our data and analytics products and services. These services are used to highlight key trends and insights across podcasts, web, mobile apps and social media.  These datasets are used to extract insights from complex media usage in order to inform stakeholders both at NPR and at Member Stations across the country. \n\nAs a senior software engineer on our team, you will be met with exciting challenges to iterate on existing systems and build new datasets, dashboards and pipelines for analyzing trends in audience engagement.\n\nIn addition, the team is responsible for core backend APIs and other services that are responsible for podcast distribution, as well as content delivery for the NPR.org homepage,  topic stories, and local and national newscasts.  Our stakeholders range from local member stations around the country to key business stakeholders inside of NPR. Come join us and make an impact for the NPR mission!\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with DMU. \n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Support the NPR Content Services and Analytics team in data analytics, dashboarding, and pipelining. \n\n* Write clean, efficient and reusable code based on product requirements\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 mid-level engineers on code quality and best practices\n\n* Consult with lead and senior engineers 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, 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 Python, LookML and other data based languages\n\n* Working knowledge of BigQuery or similar (Redshift, Azure, Snowflake, etc.)\n\n* Prior experience working with business intelligence tools like Looker or similar (Tableau, Power BI, Mode, etc.)\n\n* Familiarity with SQL/DML and RDBMS technologies \n\n* Fluency in JavaScript / TypeScript\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* Strong Object-Oriented programming skills \n\n* Familiarity with deploying and monitoring production systems\n\n* Experience writing unit and other automated tests using tools like Postman and Jest.\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* Familiarity with R for advanced data analysis\n\n* Experience using APIs to retrieve analytics data\n\n* Excellent problem solving, analysis and data interpretation skills with a keen sense for data inconsistencies.\n\n* Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)\n\n* Familiarity with Salesforce platform\n\n* Advanced experience with Amazon AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform, including Lambda, SNS, EC2, ASGs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, RDS and CodeDeploy\n\n* Advanced experience with Google Cloud Platform including BigQuery Omni, Cloud Functions, Dataplex and  Composer.\n\n* Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Jenkins, CodeFresh, TravisCI or equivalent)\n\n* Experience using observability and log aggregation platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch)\n\n* Familiarity with different caching layers of caching (browser, DNS, web server, application, etc) and caching technologies/services (Redis, Elasticache, CDNs, AWS CloudFront)\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 $126,541 - $134,248 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, Salesforce, JavaScript, Cloud, NoSQL, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $105,000/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

\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