Senior Back-End Engineer

Company: Axios
Location: Virginia
Posted on: April 4, 2021

Job Description:

Quick take: Axios is a growth-stage startup dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a Senior Back-end Engineer! Why it matters: Our Engineering team enables our mission of delivering the cleanest, smartest, most efficient and trustworthy content to our users. This team member will be a core part of building our web-stack codebases, working closely with an assigned squad on product direction, and helping develop the skills of less experienced developers with industry best practices around architecture, testing, and professional growth. Go deeper: In this role, you will help make Axios a stronger, more successful tech company through the following responsibilities:

• Building our products, with an emphasis on our newly launched B2B technology, AxiosHQ
• Writing clean, well-documented, and well-tested code using best practices
• Collaborating with assigned product squad to ensure Axios ships the best products possible on time
• Architect and build significant features across the platform
• Collaborating with Axios' platform engineers, product managers, and product designers to ensure we quickly and safely ship and iterate on high-quality products
• Mentoring and growing the next generation of software engineers through pair-programming and empathetic code review
• Staying up to date with industry trends and collaborating on best practices The details: Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for Axios' mission and possess the following skills and attributes:
  • Deep experience and interest in Python and Django/Django REST Framework
  • Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and understanding best deployment practices
  • Proven ability to ship high quality, testable, and accessible code quickly
  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Experience building & maintaining REST APIs
  • Experience working on cross-functional agile teams where you advocate for technical needs as well as the best solution to the problems at hand
  • Specific passion for user-focused and data-driven decision making
  • Experience with data modeling in relational databases
  • A belief in and commitment to Axios' diversity, equity, and inclusion values--
  • Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
  • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
  • 401K
  • Company equity
  • Commuter and cell phone benefit
  • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
  • Annual learning and development stipend Additional pandemic-related benefits :
    • $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
    • Tele-mental health services--
    • OneMedical membership, including tele-health services--
    • Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers--
    • Access to the Axios "Family Fund", which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies-- Axios is committed to maintaining the same safe and inclusive environment for candidates as for our team members. Addressing you by the correct pronoun is an important part of this commitment. How did you hear about this job? --*
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