\nWe're looking for a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on our publishing systems and core website. This vital role serves to amplify ProPublica’s mission — publishing web-first journalism with real-world impact — by crafting scalable, efficient and user-centric products.\n\nThe right candidate will believe in our mission and thrive in a multifaceted role, contributing both to the long-term product road map and to hands-on development. Your responsibilities will include shipping high-quality and resilient software, and working alongside designers, product managers, data analysts, engineers and agency partners. You’ll write code, contribute to our documentation, mentor your peers and proactively solve problems.\n\nAs a pivotal member of our expanding, cross-functional product team, you’ll work closely with colleagues across ProPublica’s newsroom and business operations, ensuring that our product strategies align and advance our organizational objectives. \nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Act as the primary technical point of contact for our web publishing system.\n\n* Lead the planning and technical execution of tools and product features that support ProPublica’s journalistic, audience and revenue goals.\n\n* Collaborate with designers and engineering leaders to establish technical standards for front-end web development.\n\n* Build tools and product features that showcase our journalism across platforms, including the web and third-party ecosystems such as Apple News and Google News.\n\n* Evaluate new products and features, troubleshoot issues and proactively lead improvements that increase the performance, reliability and security of our products and publishing platforms.\n\n* Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs and translate them into actionable project briefs and high-quality code.\n\n* Serve as the subject-matter expert on the website and web platform, providing guidance and mentorship to developers, helping document coding standards and processes and ensuring that we’re following best practices.\n\n* Stay informed about industry trends, tools and platforms that can be leveraged to improve our newsroom’s digital capabilities.\n\n\n\nExperience and Skills\n\n\n* A deep understanding of, and care for, the open web.\n\n* Minimum five years working with modern content-management systems, preferably WordPress, including strong proficiency with PHP and experience building extensions and integrations.\n\n* Experience and comfort with modern, well-structured, standards-based HTML and CSS, as well as website optimization using core web vitals as a guide.\n\n* Experience writing vanilla JavaScript and using front-end development frameworks such as Svelte or React.\n\n* Experience working with AWS-based website infrastructure and tools.  \n\n* Expertise using APIs to query and modify CMS content.\n\n* Familiarity with templating languages such as Twig or Liquid. \n\n* Familiarity with popular third-party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, Parse.ly and Google Tag Manager.\n\n* Experience working in highly collaborative, small, efficient teams, with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to support a cross-functional and growing organization.\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\n\nThis job is full time and includes benefits. ProPublica is based in New York, but we’re open to remote candidates. We have offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Austin, Texas; Phoenix; and Berkeley, California. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.\n\nThe expected salary range for this position is $120,000 to $145,000.\n\nThis is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary figure will take into account a person’s experience, accomplishment and location. ProPublica is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.\n\n\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, PHP, Senior and Engineer 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\nNew York City, New York, United States

\nJob Description\n\nProvides technical support for all application delivery platforms including builds and continuous integration, routine application maintenance and upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning, business continuity and disaster recovery.\n\nThe position is expected to spend approximately 50% time on Configuration Management, 30% on Java/HTML/CSS/SQL and/or test/script development and 20% on Linux System Administration. Duties may vary over time and project.\n\nPurpose \n\nThe DevOps Lead is primarily responsible for maintaining the application environments and configurations supporting reliable, secure and responsive application delivery and support to internal and external customers.\n\n The DevOps Lead is a mid-to-senior position that requires expertise and experience in the following areas: \n\n\n* Configuration Management, managing and documenting hardware and software configurations across development and production environments to reliably and securely deliver applications to internal and external customers, in audited transaction environments, including maintaining a SOC2 attestation and often collaborating with internal, customer, partner, vendor and contracted resources.  Build management and automation, assistance in troubleshooting build and automated testing failures.\n\n* Java/HTML5/CSS/SQL/Web Services application operations and development.  Experience in Object Oriented development and web and application server administration support, including connections to other systems (e.g. web services, databases, monitors, etc.) is expected.\n\n* Linux system administration in a Windows- and Macintosh-client networked environment on a hybrid cloud built around Amazon Web Services and internal servers using Virtual Private Cloud solutions.  This includes systems administration for patches, monitoring, disaster recovery, failover, security, etc. \n\n\n\n\nJob Responsibilities\n\nAdministration, maintenance and management of production and development environments, supporting Affiliation Management, Premium Capture, AAISdirect, AAISonline, SDMA, Hadoop, Pentaho, the AAIS Underwriting Platform (UP) and others as directed to meet service level agreements and audit (SOC2) requirements.\n\nTasks include:\n\n\n* Software configuration management and the successful installation of new software releases and system upgrades.\n\n* Evaluation and installation of patches, resolve software related problems on server platforms primarily hosted by Amazon Web Services.\n\n* Implement security policies and configurations for hardware and software resources.\n\n* Maintain network, server, application and transaction monitors with reporting and issue response protocols.\n\n* Supports SSAE16 compliance for Customer Engagement systems.\n\n* Maintenance and enhancements for Java/HTML5/CSS operational applications.\n\n* SQL to extract data for reporting and business insights.\n\n* Unit, integration and automated test development for quality assurance, build reliability and system performance.\n\n* Maintenance and enhancement of continuous integration environment to support agile development process.\n\n* Securing and protecting customer data and managing ongoing risk of compromise and intrusion.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Java, CSS, HTML, Executive, Amazon, Cloud and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

\nFull Stack Developer - Emphasis on Angular.js / Node.js / MongoDB / Redis\nThe Opportunity:\nWe're looking for an experienced full stack developer based in either the Phoenix, AZ or the Washington, DC metro area, however remote teleworkers will be considered for the position also if they have excellent communications skills and are willing to travel to either of the above locations quarterly.\nThe Day to Day:\n* Develop web apps and APIs people use every day\n* Find ways to make apps fun and natural, so users intuitively know how to work the app\n* Build apps and back-end frameworks that are maintainable, flexible and scaleable (think TB)\n* Anticipate tomorrow's problems by understanding of what users are trying to accomplish\n\n\nRequirements:\n* Substantial experience with Javascript, Angular.js and Node.js\n* Comfort with asynchronous programming methodology\n* Experience with web tech including REST, HTML 5 and CSS\n* Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or other BIG databases\n* Familiarity with jQuery\n* US Citizenship or authorization to work in the US\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* DevOps experience with Linux or FreeBSD\n* Experience with Linux Containers and Docker\n* Familiarity with data visualization tools like D3.js\n* Experience working with XML or JSON data\n* Experience with sigmajs or graphviz\n* Experience with Python, Ruby, Perl and/or shell scripting\n* Experience with the Go programming language\n* Mac OS X familiarity\n* BS or MS in a technology or scientific field of study\n* High energy level and pleasant, positive attitude!\n* History of participation in organized sports (high school or college athletic teams)\n* Evidence of working well within a diverse team\n\n\nCompensation:\n* Salary commensurate with experience, generally higher than competitive industries\n* Comprehensive benefits package\n* Opportunities for advancement and a clear career path\n\n\nAbout Us:\nWe conduct advanced technical research and develop innovative software and systems that help meet network security and reliability challenges for organizations world-wide. You can read more at our web site.\nCareer Opportunities:\nWe have many other openings available. For a complete listing, visit jobs.vostrom.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Perl, HTML, Travel and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

\nFull Stack Developer - Emphasis on Angular.js / Node.js / MongoDB / Redis\nThe Opportunity:\nWe're looking for an experienced full stack developer based in either the Phoenix, AZ or the Washington, DC metro area, however remote teleworkers will be considered for the position also if they have excellent communications skills and are willing to travel to either of the above locations quarterly.\nThe Day to Day:\n* Develop web apps and APIs people use every day\n* Find ways to make apps fun and natural, so users intuitively know how to work the app\n* Build apps and back-end frameworks that are maintainable, flexible and scaleable (think TB)\n* Anticipate tomorrow's problems by understanding of what users are trying to accomplish\n\n\nRequirements:\n* Substantial experience with Javascript, Angular.js and Node.js\n* Comfort with asynchronous programming methodology\n* Experience with web tech including REST, HTML 5 and CSS\n* Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or other BIG databases\n* Familiarity with jQuery\n* US Citizenship or authorization to work in the US\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* DevOps experience with Linux or FreeBSD\n* Experience with Linux Containers and Docker\n* Familiarity with data visualization tools like D3.js\n* Experience working with XML or JSON data\n* Experience with sigmajs or graphviz\n* Experience with Python, Ruby, Perl and/or shell scripting\n* Experience with the Go programming language\n* Mac OS X familiarity\n* BS or MS in a technology or scientific field of study\n* High energy level and pleasant, positive attitude!\n* History of participation in organized sports (high school or college athletic teams)\n* Evidence of working well within a diverse team\n\n\nCompensation:\n* Salary commensurate with experience, generally higher than competitive industries\n* Comprehensive benefits package\n* Opportunities for advancement and a clear career path\n\n\nAbout Us:\nWe conduct advanced technical research and develop innovative software and systems that help meet network security and reliability challenges for organizations world-wide. You can read more at our web site.\nCareer Opportunities:\nWe have many other openings available. For a complete listing, visit jobs.vostrom.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, InfoSec, Perl, CSS, HTML, Python, Angular, Node, Ruby, API, Admin, Excel, Data Viz, jQuery, Linux, Sys Admin, Cassandra, Full Stack, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad and Travel jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

\nUX Developer – Emphasis on Angular.js / Node.js / MongoDB / Redis\nThe Opportunity:\nWe're looking for an experienced UX developer based in either Virginia Beach, VA or the Washington, DC metro area, however remote (tele) workers will be considered for the position also if they have excellent communications skills and are willing to travel to either of the above locations several times per year.\nThe Day to Day:\n* Develop front-end interfaces for web apps people use every day \n* Find ways to make apps fun and natural, so users intuitively know how to work the app\n* Build apps and back-end frameworks that are maintainable, flexible and scaleable\n* Anticipate tomorrow's problems by understanding of what users are trying to accomplish \n\n\nRequirements:\n* Experience with Javascript, Angular.js and Node.js \n* Comfort with asynchronous programming methodology \n* Experience with web tech including REST, HTML 5 and CSS \n* Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or other BIG databases \n* Familiarity with jQuery\n* US Citizenship\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* DevOps experience with Linux or FreeBSD \n* Experience with Linux Containers and Docker \n* Familiarity with data visualization tools like D3.js\n* Experience working with XML or JSON data \n* Experience with sigmajs or graphviz\n* Experience with Python, Ruby, Perl and/or shell scripting \n* Experience with the Go programming language \n* Mac OS X familiarity \n* BS or MS in a technology or scientific field of study\n* High energy level and pleasant, positive attitude!\n* History of participation in organized sports (high school or college athletic teams)\n* Evidence of working well within a diverse team\n\n\nCompensation:\n* Salary commensurate with experience, generally higher than competitive industries\n* Comprehensive benefits package\n* Opportunities for advancement and a clear career path\n\n\nAbout Us:\nWe conduct advanced technical research and develop innovative software and systems that help meet network security and reliability challenges for organizations world-wide.  You can read more at our web site.  \nCareer Opportunities:\nWe have many other openings available. For a complete listing, visit jobs.vostrom.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, InfoSec, Perl, CSS, HTML, Python, Angular, Node, Ruby, Admin, Excel, Data Viz, jQuery, Linux, Sys Admin, Cassandra, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad and Travel jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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