Software Engineer, Sr - News & Insights

What you’ll do

• Product Ownership & Frontend Experience
  • Build and expand consumer-facing features across the full stack, with a strong emphasis on delivering high-quality frontend experiences in React and Next.js.
  • Create modular, performant, responsive, and accessible components and pages in collaboration with Design System, Product, and content teams.
  • Take ownership of the user experience for key product surfaces and help evolve the frontend architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Full-Stack Platform Development
  • Develop and extend the platform’s data layer, including GraphQL queries and schema, persisted-query workflows, Node.js services, and the API surface between the frontend and CMS.
  • Work comfortably across frontend and backend systems to solve product and platform challenges end to end.
  • Improve developer experience and platform health through intuitive APIs, strong documentation, observability, and reduced operational friction.
• Performance, Reliability & Scale
  • Own and improve caching and rendering architecture, including ISR, CDN and edge caching, and object caching, to keep content fresh while serving it quickly at scale.
  • Drive SEO and Core Web Vitals improvements on a high-traffic, search-driven content property where page speed and discoverability directly impact the business.
  • Ensure code is well-tested using unit, component, and end-to-end testing practices.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration
  • Provide technical guidance through code reviews, design discussions, and day-to-day collaboration across engineering and business partners.
  • Research opportunities to improve existing systems and processes, build proofs of concept, and communicate technical ideas and trade-offs clearly to both engineering and business audiences.
  • Contribute to team planning, roadmap discussions, Agile ceremonies, and incident-response or operational practices.

What you’ll bring

• Experience & Expertise
  • 5+ years of web development experience with strong knowledge of modern JavaScript or TypeScript and frameworks such as React and Next.js.
  • Strong experience building high-quality consumer web experiences and solving problems across both frontend and backend systems.
  • Solid backend experience in one or more languages such as Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, or Ruby, with comfort designing APIs and reasoning about server-side behavior.
  • Experience with GraphQL, including schema design, queries, and clients, or a strong API foundation with eagerness to go deep in GraphQL.
  • Experience using AI-forward development practices and modern tooling to maximize quality and velocity.
• Technical Skills
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, modern CSS approaches, responsive layouts, accessibility, and performance optimization.
  • APIs & Data: GraphQL, persisted queries, schema design, and API integration between frontend systems and CMS platforms.
  • Performance & Delivery: Core Web Vitals, SEO best practices, SSR, SSG, ISR, caching strategies, and debugging browser or layout issues.
  • Testing & Tooling: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, and modern build tooling such as webpack, Babel, or SWC.
  • Cloud & CI/CD: Familiarity with AWS services and modern CI/CD ecosystems such as CloudFront, ECS/EKS, S3, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or Kubernetes.
• Professional Qualities
  • Wants to own a product, especially the frontend
  • Extremely collaborative and able to work directly with Product and cross-functional stakeholders
  • AI-forward, using modern tools to maximize impact
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to performance, reliability, accessibility, and great user experiences.
  • Growth mindset and comfort working in ambiguity while helping shape short- and long-term technical direction.