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About Us
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 450+ 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.
About Us
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 450+ 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.
About The Role
The Athletic is rapidly innovating 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
The team works closely with our Newsroom staff scattered across the world, along with our other product and engineering teams. You'll be trusted and encouraged to dream up and try out your own ideas and experiments. You will be joining a team of generalists and will have the opportunity to work on the whole stack: frontend, backend, database, and APIs.
The current team is largely based in Melbourne and Sydney, but this role can be based in a 100% remote capacity within Australia.
Responsibilities
* Work with Product team to implement growth-related features and experiments on the website and in our backend APIs
* Suggest and prototype product improvements and features aimed at growing our subscriber base
* Architect and build solutions that take into account performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality
* Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues
* Work with the team to influence technology direction
Requirements
* Experience with video capabilities is highly desirable but not required
* Entrepreneurial mindset and desire to work in fast-paced, growth environment
* 2+ years full-stack engineering development
* Experience delivering products working across the stack—you're comfortable building the frontend, and want to grow your skills in the backend and designing the data persistence layer
* Experience with Javascript, React, Apollo, and AWS
* The current team is largely based in Melbourne and Sydney, but this role can be based in a 100% remote capacity within Australia
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our Australian benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Online Media
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