\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

\nHello! Are you interested in a unique opportunity to join a team in a 100% remote company, and help build the next generation of an Enterprise Data Collection platform used by some of the largest and most well known organizations in the world? \nWe are a team of collaborators that are passionate about providing the very best that we can to our customers. We are travelers, artists, athletes, animal lovers, optimists and adventurers creating an incredibly strong, fully remote team and providing amazing service, no matter where we are. Were problem solvers, and continuous learners never afraid of a challenge, and were looking to add an amazing Software Architect to our Engineering team. \nAs an architect you have the ability to:\n\n * Spec, design, develop, and debug scalable, high-performance, and high-availability, service-based web applications\n * Play a leading role in supporting and enhancing the architecture and the framework of our application\n * Ensure we maintain a high level of code health and quality\n * Collaborate with and coach team members to determine best practices and requirements for our software and architecture\n * Help define technical solutions and a unified framework from the design and architecture through development, testing, and release\n * Help guide the technology directions by recommending specific technologies to pursue, suggesting training and team development activities\n * Identify and address technical debt as our applications evolve\n * Evaluate and prototype proofs of concept using the best technologies for the job\n * Conduct performance-testing by using application profiler and load-testing tools\n * Work with the existing team to streamline our automated build, deployment, and testing procedures\n * Identify and resolve potential application security vulnerabilities\n * Improve system scalability and application isolation\n * Spend some time hands-on coding\n \n\nWhat we are looking for:\n * Must be located in a US Eastern/Central time zone, or be able to work standard US Eastern hours daily\n * 7+ Years experience with back-end development and relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) \n * 7+ years designing, developing, and implementing production software and complex system integrations and highly scalable RESTful APIs\n * Very experienced with the following languages and frameworks: PHP (Laravel, Lumen), Javascript (React.js)\n * Experience working on large-scale software projects\n * Professional experience analyzing code for weaknesses and errors, and overseeing plans to improve them\n * Experience with using Amazon AWS\n * Expertise in open source technologies and NoSQL DB technology such as Couchbase, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.\n * Strong knowledge of application-profiling and performance-tuning\n * Strong understanding of internet security\n * Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility and limitation issues\n * Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical degree\n * Previous role as a team leader\n * Bonus points for:\n \n\n\n * Previous remote working experience\n * Working on web applications that process large volumes of data and/or receive high volumes of traffic\n \n\n\nAbout Us\nFormAssembly is a leading Enterprise Data Collection platform, thanks to our impressive roster of customers. We have been recognized in the 2018 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies, and we are a G2 Crowd Winter 2019 Leader. Our mission is to help organizations collect, use, and be good stewards of the personal data entrusted to them.\nHere are some links to give you a peek into what it's like to work at FormAssembly:\n * Meet our awesome team. \n * Learn how and why we work remotely.\n \n\nIf youre a genuinely nice person who is great to work with, respectful, and who will put the team and our customers first, wed be thrilled to have you apply for this position. FormAssembly is an equal opportunity employer. If you belong to an under-represented group in Tech, youll find a welcoming culture that thrives on diversity.\nThis is a full-time position, open to all locations (working remotely, from home).\n\nBenefits\n\nFormAssembly is a completely distributed team. We thrive through digital communication, and work to connect numerous times a day. Our culture is unique, read more about it here. Some of our benefits include: \n * Health benefits (health, dental, vision) for Team Members based in the United States\n * 401(k) with 4% company match\n * 4 weeks paid vacation and 9 company holidays\n * Flexible work schedule\n * Paid parental leave\n * Charitable contribution match\n * Budget for professional development\n * Company provided Mac laptop\n \n\nYou'll be joining our amazing, talented, and fully remote family and helping us help our users be good stewards of the data entrusted to them. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Architecture, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Amazon, PHP and NoSQL 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