Software Engineer (Australia)
The Athletic Media CompanyPosted 2/14/2025
Software Engineer (Australia)
The Athletic Media Company
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Job Summary
The Athletic is seeking a full-stack software engineer to join their team in Australia. The role involves working with the product team to implement growth-related features, suggesting and prototyping product improvements, and architecting solutions that consider performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality. The ideal candidate has experience with video capabilities, Javascript, React, Apollo, and AWS, and is comfortable building the frontend and growing skills in the backend and designing data persistence layers. The role offers a 100% remote capacity within Australia, competitive benefits, and unique perks. The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people from all backgrounds to apply.
Job Description
About Us
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
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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