ProPublica is hiring a
Senior Engineer

Summary

Join ProPublica as a Full-Stack Senior Product Engineer to lead work on their publishing systems and core website, contributing to the organization's mission of publishing investigative journalism. This role involves shipping high-quality software, collaborating with various teams, staying informed about industry trends, and more.

Requirements

• A deep understanding of, and care for, the open web
• Minimum five years working with modern content-management systems, preferably WordPress, including strong proficiency with PHP and experience building extensions and integrations
• Experience and comfort with modern, well-structured, standards-based HTML and CSS, as well as website optimization using core web vitals as a guide
• Experience writing vanilla JavaScript and using front-end development frameworks such as Svelte or React
• Experience working with AWS-based website infrastructure and tools
• Expertise using APIs to query and modify CMS content
• Familiarity with templating languages such as Twig or Liquid
• Familiarity with popular third-party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, Parse.ly and Google Tag Manager
• Experience working in highly collaborative, small, efficient teams, with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to support a cross-functional and growing organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for our web publishing system
• Lead the planning and technical execution of tools and product features that support ProPublica’s journalistic, audience and revenue goals
• Collaborate with designers and engineering leaders to establish technical standards for front-end web development
• 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
• Evaluate new products and features, troubleshoot issues and proactively lead improvements that increase the performance, reliability and security of our products and publishing platforms
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs and translate them into actionable project briefs and high-quality code
• 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

Benefits

This job is full time and includes benefits