Wirecutter

Senior Software Engineer

Mobile-App

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JOB FUNCTION

Senior Software Engineer

COMPANY

Wirecutter

INDUSTRY

Mobile-App

LOCATION

Headquarters:New York, NY,USA

WEBSITE

https://thewirecutter.com/

JOB DESCRIPTION

About the position:

Wirecutter is seeking an experienced senior full stack engineer to join the team that is responsible for the application, APIs, and client interfaces that serve our product reviews and power our business. This is a new position on a team of two-plus engineers, reporting to the engineering manager and working closely with engineers, product managers, and designers. Successful candidates thrive in a fast-paced environment, think critically, communicate clearly, collaborate, solve problems, write quality code, and ship features that achieve business goals. As a senior engineer, you play a pivotal role in building a best-in-class product platform. You should be comfortable working remotely. Ideally, you have experience working on a distributed development team.
We have a strong focus on scale, reliability, performance, and product agility, and that means picking the right tool for the job while being pragmatic and flexible. The tech stack for the platform team mainly consists of:
  • Laravel — PHP framework
  • MySQL/MariaDB
  • Vue JS
  • Grunt/Gulp — task automation
  • Sass/CSS — markup styles
This is a remote (US-only) full time position.
About Wirecutter:
Founded five years ago by journalists fed up with the time and energy it takes to shop, Wirecutter developed a simpler approach to giving buying advice: Just tell people exactly what to get in one single guide. The company’s purpose: to help people find great things, quickly and easily. Through rigorous testing, research, reporting, and whatever means necessary, we create straightforward recommendations that save readers unnecessary stress, time, and effort.  We then monetize these guides by enabling our readers to easily purchase the products they are interested in.
Wirecutter was recently acquired by, and is now a subsidiary of, The New York Times Company.  As part of the acquisition, The Times is investing in Wirecutter to accelerate its business through editorial category expansion, development of more robust product features, and unlocking of new revenue streams.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identifies problems with requirements for their own and adjacent work. Communicates these issues early to help course-correct
  • Communicates project status clearly and effectively in a proactive manner
  • Translate UI/UX wireframes to visual elements
  • Build scalable, high-quality, and innovative solutions and features
  • Write code that is simple, reliable, maintainable, performant, functional, and compatible across devices and browsers
  • Design applications with extensibility in mind, while considering efficiency and the burden of developer onboarding
  • Debug issues reported in our production environment
  • Provide level-of-effort estimates and specifications for upcoming project tasks
  • Understand requirements, discuss trade-offs, and collaborate on the best approach to solving a problem
  • Succinctly communicate complex problems and proposed solutions, in writing and in conversation
  • Perform code reviews with meaningful feedback
  • Test and troubleshoot with automated testing or manual quality assurance

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with PHP, including Laravel or another MVC frameworks
  • 3+ years of experience with JavaScript, jQuery, NPM, and the Document Object Model API
  • 3+ years of experience styling client-side views with CSS or Sass
  • Understanding of object-oriented software principles, unit testing, acceptance testing, and design patterns
  • Experience developing and consuming restful web services
  • Experience working closely with design and product teams throughout the product development life cycle
  • A deep understanding of software development, working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team with a track record of shipping software on time
  • Curiosity and vision: You have a passion for technology and can think critically about performance, scalability, and reliability of software
  • Comfortable working without micromanagement of day-to-day tasks
  • Experience with version control and basic shell scripting

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Vue JS or other JavaScript frameworks
  • Experience working with Terraform & Ansible
  • Experience with the JSON API specification
  • Working knowledge of GraphQL
Even with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, Wirecutter remains a highly remote culture, and open to employing people across the country (and in Canada!).  Right now, we are eligible to hire in CA, CT, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, NV, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA. If you live outside of these states but are still interested in working with Wirecutter, you are welcome to apply, and we will keep your information on file for future opportunities.

Benefits and Perks:

  • Make an impact by supporting our original, independent and deeply reported journalism.
  • We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families
  • We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.
  • We offer a competitive parental leave.
  • We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.
  • We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.
  • Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Apply for this Position

If you can see yourself in this remote role and feel you can add to the ongoing success of In Marketing We Trust, then apply via https://thewirecutter.com/jobs/