Quick Take: Axios is a new digital media company that gets your smarter, faster with news that matters. We’re hiring a Full-Stack Engineer for our Backend focused Chapter!
Why it Matters: Our engineering team enables our mission of delivering the cleanest, smartest, most efficient and trustworthy content to our users. You will be a core part of building our web-stack codebases, working closely with your squad on product direction, and helping develop the skills of less experienced developers with industry best practices around testing, accessibility, and documentation.
Go Deeper: In this role, you will make an impact to Axios through the following responsibilities:
- Building our products, including Axios.com, content creation tools, and other internal products
- Writing clean, well-documented, and well tested code using best practices
- Collaborating with your product squad to ensure we ship the best products possible on time
- Mentoring less experienced members of the team 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 preferably have the following skills:
- Proficiency building web-scale applications in languages such as Python, Ruby or Golang (We write a lot of python)
- Proven ability to ship high quality, testable, and accessible code quickly
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and understanding best deployment practices
- Experience working with product designers
- Experience building APIs
- Experience with object-oriented design and data schemas
- Experience with database querying, modeling, and optimizing
- Prior exposure to Javascript & Typescript and a frontend framework, such as React, Angular or Vue (nice but not required)
Don’t Forget:
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- 401K
- Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
- Company equity
- Commuter and cell phone benefit
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
- Annual learning and development stipend