Senior Frontend Engineer, Axios
$130-175k
News media company
Open for applications
News media company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$130-175k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building large, high-traffic frontend applications, with a sharp eye toward responsive and accessible user experiences
- Fluency in TypeScript or JavaScript with strong foundation with a modern front end library, such as React, and a framework like Next.js
- Proven ability to ship high quality and testable code using Jest, React Testing Library and Storybook
- Experience with REST API development and best practices for API design
- Familiarity with using AI to optimize workflows
- Experience working on cross-functional agile teams where you advocate for technical needs as well as the best solution to the problems at hand
- Specific passion for user-focused and data-driven decision making
- Experience working on front end web performance, SEO and accessibility
- Experience with TDD and up-front tech design planning
- Experience working with asset management, content management, ad tech, and A/B testing solutions
- Caching and multi-layered caching strategies (e.g. redis, Varnish, but also Cloudflare)
- A passion for media and building award-winning brands
What the job involves
- Our Engineers are a critical part of our mission to deliver the cleanest, smartest, most efficient, and trustworthy content to our users
- You will architect and grow new and existing codebases, give technical input and feedback to Axios’ product and design teams for new features, and help develop the skills of less experienced engineers with industry best practices around testing, accessibility, and documentation
- Architect and build significant features across the Axios web site, content/media management systems, and feeds
- Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code
- Advocate for best practices, automation over repetition, the best technical approaches, and when to build vs buy
- Collaborate with Axios’ platform engineers, test engineers, product managers, and product designers to ensure we quickly and safely ship and iterate on high-quality products
- Mentor and coach members of the team through pair-programming and empathetic code review
- Share knowledge through presenting at guild meetings and demoing to team members and stakeholders
- Stay up to date with industry trends and advise the team on best practices
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions other news outlets were having to undergo to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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