Sr. Developer - Quality Engineering

USA TODAY Co.

19h • Remote

About The Position

USA TODAY Co., Inc. is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. We seek to inspire, inform, and connect audiences as a sustainable, growth focused media and digital marketing solutions company. Through our trusted brands, including the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations, including our network of local properties, in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom, we provide essential journalism, local content, and digital experiences to audiences and businesses. We deliver high-quality, trusted content with a commitment to balanced, unbiased journalism, where and when consumers want to engage. Our digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, supports small and medium-sized businesses with innovative digital marketing products and solutions. USA TODAY Co. open roles are featured on various external job boards. When applying to a position at USA TODAY Co., you should be completing an application on USA TODAY Co. Careers via Dayforce. Job postings directing you to complete an application on other external sites may not be valid. To connect with us, visit www.usatodayco.com
We’re looking for a Sr. Developer - Quality Engineering (focused on Infrastructure and Tools) who is passionate about quality-driven development and excited to help shape the future of digital journalism and media delivery. In this role, you will build and maintain custom tools and solutions to support product and engineering teams across the company by improving quality, reducing pain points, and ensuring our platforms deliver fast, reliable, and trustworthy content to millions of users.
While this role is on our Quality Engineering team, this is very much a development-focused role. You’ll be a key player in building services and pipelines using cloud resources, adding observability for other teams (using dashboards, alerting, and more), and scaling our tools as we increase our quality footprint to cover more aspects of our business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of development experience
• Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with exposure to other programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Ruby)
• Experience working with containers and building configuration files (e.g. Docker)
• Experience deploying and maintaining serverless projects (using tools like Google Cloud Run/Functions, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience working with CI tools and building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience ingesting, storing, organizing, displaying, and analyzing data (with tools like Google Cloud BigQuery, Data Studio, SQL, and Grafana)
• Experience architecting or designing multi-step software systems or pipelines (especially using Cloud tools) is a plus
• Exposure to and experience with test automation tools is a plus (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit).
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Nice To Haves

• A deep appreciation for the role of quality in digital products and services
• A passion for problem-solving, finding approaches and tailoring solutions to meet of many stakeholders.
• A strategic approach to automation, balancing speed, coverage, cost, and maintainability.
• A collaborative spirit that thrives in cross-functional environments.
• A data-driven mindset, using metrics to guide decisions and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Propose, build, and maintain QE tools that are modular and can be used across many projects.
• Collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering teams to assess quality strategies and find solutions to embed quality into every stage of the development lifecycle.
• Integrate automated tools and tests into CI/CD pipelines to support rapid deployment cycles and minimize production defects.
• Ensure test coverage for critical workflows, including content ingestion, publishing, personalization, and user engagement features.
• Champion testability and observability, especially in high-traffic, high-availability environments.
• Mentor teams on automation best practices, helping shift testing left and improve developer ownership of quality.
• Analyze test results and production metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.

Benefits

• The annualized base salary for this role will range between $105,000 and $125,000. Base compensation is reflective of many factors, including, but not limited to, the market in which one lives/works, individual education level, skills, certifications and experience. Note: variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior