ProPublica is hiring a
Senior Engineer

Summary

Join ProPublica as a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on publishing systems and core website, amplifying the organization's mission through scalable, efficient, and user-centric products.

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
• Stay informed about industry trends, tools and platforms that can be leveraged to improve our newsroom’s digital capabilities