The Athletic is rapidly growing in the world of journalism. We've developed a high quality subscription product that users love enough to give us a 4.9 rating in the App Store, and we see best in class retention rates when it's time for users to renew their subscription. We're building a product that users love and we want to keep growing it. That's where you come in!
Develop new features based on product specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance. Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups. Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with design and product to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product. Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem. Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until itβs live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work. Coach and mentor Junior engineers, helping them understand new technologies, general best practices and troubleshoot issues in their daily work.