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Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (Remote)

The Athletic

Full Time
Senior
150k-165k
17 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic's newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs. The role is focused on developing and maintaining a high-quality subscription product that users love, with a strong growth trajectory in journalism and digital media. This position is remote to the US and Canada only.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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. Engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it's live.
  • Coach and mentor Junior engineers, helping them understand new technologies, best practices and troubleshoot issues in their daily work.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
  • Experience with React (Next.js) with an Apollo/GraphQL API layer, or PHP (Wordpress) with a REST API layer.
  • Familiarity with MySQL database, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, and hosting on AWS is desired but not required.

Qualifications

  • Educational background is not explicitly specified, but relevant experience is required.

Benefits & Perks

  • Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
  • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
  • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
  • Paid time off including sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
  • Global benefits packages offering similar perks to the local market for international candidates.

Working at The Athletic

The Athletic values diversity and encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. They emphasize a commitment to equal opportunity employment and prioritize building a supportive, inclusive work environment.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 7, 2025
Salary150k-165k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeRemote
ExperienceSenior

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About The Athletic

Website

theathletic.com

Company Size

501-1000 employees

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