Senior Django/Python Web Developer

National Journal, the premium provider of insightful reporting, essential research and intelligence tools for those operating in Washington’s policy and government arenas, seeks a Senior Web Developer to be jointly responsible for the successful delivery of digital products. The Senior Web Developer will be a key member of our team of developers and act as the architect of major digital projects while helping to ensure that the work completed by the development team is stable and efficient. This is not a management position, but responsibilities will include mentorship of junior colleagues.

Local Washington, DC area candidates only, please. This is not a remote or telework position.

Major Responsibilities Include:

• Architect major initiatives and work with the development team to ensure the intended architecture of minor initiatives is executed with excellence
• Reinforce and maintain development processes and workflows, including identifying and implementing optimizations
• Reinforce and help to maintain a system of peer review, help to verify the quality of code being released, and maintain a high degree of focus on reliability and performance
• Provide accurate time and effort estimates for work completion based on requirements and help to ensure the development team delivers on agreed-upon deadlines
• Promote a culture of automated testing and code reliability
• Perform major and minor day-to-day development tasks as needed
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to plan weekly sprints
• Collaborate with IT to ensure stability and up-time and in cases of downtime or other issues, help to communicate with key internal stakeholders to manage expectations

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of demonstrated experience successfully launching complex projects on time
• 2+ years of experience as a full-time developer for a web app, custom software product or organization web site
• 3+ years of experience with most or all of the following: Python & Django, relational DBs, jQuery & JavaScript, HTML, CSS/LESS, Git
• Experience with the following technologies preferred but not required: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, WordPress, CDNs, uWSGI, Redis, Celery, Jenkins, Sentry, New Relic, Nginx, CentOS, RabbitMQ, NodeJS, React, Salesforce, Marketo, iOS development, high availability systems, or graph databases
• Organized, detail and deadline oriented, highly focused
• Ability to prioritize & manage multiple projects at one time; cool under pressure
• Analytical thinker with strong/creative problem solving skills
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Atlantic Media Values:  Across Atlantic Media, generally, the firm looks for two “pillar gifts” in you, and everyone else.  In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions –

• Force of Ideas:  At the center of Atlantic Media work are the ideas within our writing.  We believe that ideas – to the good and not – have consequence.  Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight, intellectual honesty, to that ultimate purpose of separating the bad from the good, and giving voice to the latter.
• Spirit of Generosity:  Atlantic Media seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity – a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct.  Atlantic Media writing should be cut from the same cloth –critical on the merits but informed by charity and forbearance in measuring motive and personal character