Senior Backend Engineer

Quick take: Axios is a respected media company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Application Development organization! This role will come in at either the Senior II or Staff level, to be determined during the interview process.

Why it matters: As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer you will be responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the backend architecture and services that enable Axios journalists to reach its readers through our editorial tools, website, newsletters, subscription services, and live events.   

Go deeper: This Engineer will oversee the evolution and maintenance of the technical architecture of our platform and core services. This involves spearheading technical initiatives and coordinating their implementation with our product, data, and infrastructure teams, while also developing and evangelizing engineering standards and principles across the organization. In this role, you will drive impact at Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Driving strategic platform initiatives, collaborating with application, data, and platform team members to ensure stable and performant application services.
• Establishing and aligning technical vision with engineering and product leadership.
• Working closely with product development teams to define and adopt engineering principles and standards
• Mentoring less experienced team members through pair programming, code review, and group learning sessions
• Proactively identifying technical debt and prioritizing its remediation with the development teams
• Staying up to date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices
• Evaluating and recommending new tools and technologies to improve the platform and developer experience
• Works closely with cross functional teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Contributes to a culture of documentation, including platform architecture, processes, and workflows.

The details: Ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit, be highly collaborative, exhibit a passion for building technology products, and have the following qualifications:

• Experience building web-scale systems in languages such as (but not limited to) Golang, Python, and TypeScript
• Demonstrated senior-level expertise in proactive problem-solving and driving technical innovation.
• Track record of designing and building scalable systems
• Strong understanding of database concepts such as modeling, querying, and performance tuning.
• Proficient in diagnosing and resolving performance issues within complex, large-scale systems.
• Experience working on cloud-based infrastructure using AWS.
• Proficient in Agile Software Development methodologies.

Starting salary for this role is in …