Senior Software Developer (Python, React, AI)
About The Position
U.S. News & World Report is seeking an enthusiastic Full Stack Senior Software Developer with an interest in building dynamic, data-driven products. The role emphasizes an 'AI-first' mindset, encouraging the use of AI tools to enhance efficiency and workflows. Developers at U.S. News operate with significant independence and minimal overhead, leveraging technologies such as AI-coding tools, React, Python, AWS cloud, Google BigQuery, and data science to drive transformation. This position offers the opportunity to become an influential member of a passionate, friendly, and growing team that creates web applications reaching millions of visitors monthly. Developers are typically involved in the entire application lifecycle, from creation to implementation, upgrade, optimization, and testing, working directly with project owners. The role requires comfort with both front-end development and web standards, as well as back-end technologies. Collaboration is key, but independent problem-solving is also highly valued. The team utilizes a variety of technologies and environments, working closely with designers, analysts, stakeholders, and testers to build products efficiently and effectively. A commitment to continuous self-improvement and skill development for oneself and others is expected.
Requirements
- Minimum three years of related or similar full stack experience.
- A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, skills, agents, automations.
- Modern JavaScript frameworks, such as React.
- Web styling with CSS preprocessors or CSS-in-JS.
- Modern JavaScript patterns and ES6.
- Server-side technologies, such as Python, Java, or NodeJS.
- Databases, such as PostgreSQL.
- Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux or Mac OS X, along with the shells and command-line tools available in those environments.
- Version control, such as Git.
Nice To Haves
- CICD pipelines such as Jenkins.
- Cloud environments such as AWS.
- Data ingestion/transformation.
- Developed product-facing AI features.
Responsibilities
- Be a key contributor for a team of developers working with one of our verticals.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers.
- Mentor developers.
- Employ an AI-first approach to day-to-day investigation & development.
- Develop and maintain clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Make code architecture decisions.
- Review code for quality.
- Serve as a technical role model.
- Promote the overall quality of our team and technology, beyond individual contributions.
Benefits
- Paid vacation time
- Medical
- Tuition reimbursement
- Training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
