Senior Full Stack Software Engineering

At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.Why This Role MattersWe are looking for a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of newsletter and content delivery at The Washington Post. This role will own and expand engineering capabilities across our Iterable platform and newsroom-facing tools built around Arc.With the initial migration from Carta to Iterable largely complete, the next phase is about going beyond platform replacement. This engineer will help build sophisticated audience journeys, reusable templates and content systems, data integrations, personalization capabilities, and workflows that allow the newsroom to reach readers in more targeted and effective ways.The Content Delivery team is small and highly collaborative, supporting critical publishing surfaces and tools used across the newsroom. What Motivates YouYou are excited by the opportunity to build platforms that help journalism reach the right audiences.You care about reliability, maintainability, testing, observability, and the long-term health of the systems you own.You are interested in audience personalization, campaign automation, content distribution, and data-driven product development.You use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation and exploration while maintaining strong engineering judgment and accountability.How You'll Support the MissionLead the development and evolution of newsletter and content-delivery capabilities within Iterable.Develop and maintain reusable newsletter templates and Handlebars-based content components that reduce duplication and support consistent rendering.Build and support integrations between Iterable, Arc, newsroom systems, data feeds, content APIs, and backend services.Contribute to newsroom-facing Arc extensions and tools used to create, curate, preview, validate, and distribute content.Lead features and larger initiatives independently, from technical design and implementation through rollout and ongoing support.Evaluate existing systems and workflows, identify areas of operational or technical risk, and recommend improvements.Write modular, testable, reusable, and well-documented code across front-end and backend systems.Improve platform reliability through automated testing, observability, alerting, documentation, and thoughtful production support practices.Review pull requests promptly and provide constructive technical guidance that helps unblock and develop other engineers.Make pragmatic decisions about scope, technical debt, and delivery timelines while clearly communicating risks and trade-offs.Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate prototyping, implementation, testing, documentation, and investigation.Share platform knowledge across the team to reduce single points of failure and strengthen long-term ownership.Mentor engineers and contribute to team practices, technical standards, hiring, and engineering culture.The Skills and Experience You BringMinimum QualificationsBachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.At least eight years of relevant technical experience, including six or more years in software development.Strong experience building production applications with JavaScript or TypeScript.Strong experience with React or a similar component-based front-end framework.Experience designing and integrating REST or JSON APIs and working with structured content and data.Experience developing backend services using Node.js or another server-side technology.Ability to independently lead complex features or engineering initiatives from definition through delivery.Experience producing maintainable, reusable, tested, and well-documented code.Experience with automated testing, quality assurance, monitoring, and production support.Preferred QualificationsHands-on experience with Iterable or another enterprise marketing automation or customer engagement platform.Experience developing dynamic templates using Handlebars or a similar templating language.Experience building campaign journeys, audience segmentation, personalization, or event-driven messaging workflows.Experience with content management systems, publishing platforms, newsroom tools, or media products.Experience building extensions or integrations for Arc XP or another enterprise publishing platform.Experience with Amazon Web Services, including services such as Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Step Functions, or API Gateway.Experience with Node.js frameworks such as NestJS.Experience with Spring Boot, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar backend technologies.Experience building data feeds and integrations across content, customer, analytics, or marketing systems.Experience with observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms.Experience working on high-volume email, notification, or content-distribution systems.Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Kiro, or similar tools as part of an engineering workflow.With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.Competitive medical, dental and vision coverageCompany-paid pension and 401(k) matchThree weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leaveNine paid holidays and two personal days20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parentRobust mental health resourcesBackup care and caregiver concierge servicesGender affirming servicesPet insuranceFree Post digital subscriptionLeadership and career development programsBenefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status.This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.Full time