Senior Mobile Software Architect

🔥 12 hours ago

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $184.8k - $205.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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1001 - 5000 employees

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📱 Media

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💰 $4.7M Grant on 2020-05

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NPR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing breaking news, analysis, music, arts, and podcasts. As a prominent figure in journalism, NPR covers top stories in U. S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, and culture. Among its many offerings, NPR is known for its diverse range of podcasts and programming that include news, music, and cultural topics, thereby fulfilling its mission of public service journalism and cultural exploration.

📋 Description

• Define and implement shared architectural patterns and modular design systems across native iOS and Android codebases and cross-platform integrations • Lead platform-to-client architecture for personalized content delivery across owned digital properties and member station networks • Conduct technical evaluations of custom builds versus vendor solutions • Introduce modern technologies and establish architectural standards across divisions • Provide technical oversight across cross-divisional product roadmaps, project proposals, and OKR planning cycles • Conduct architectural proposals and code reviews • Integrate privacy compliance, security standards, CDN caching strategies, and cloud cost optimization • Participate in automated deployments across QA, UAT, and production environments • Join the developer on-call rotation to diagnose and resolve critical incidents • Author documented, resilient code and reusable core libraries • Assist in onboarding, training, and interviewing software engineering staff • Advocate for efficient agile processes and inclusive team practices

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including designing and leading technical architecture for complex, multi-team platform environments • Deep proficiency in native mobile architecture for iOS and Android • Proficiency with Swift, Kotlin, Java, or Objective-C • Experience designing high-traffic, resilient distributed systems • Experience with RESTful/GraphQL APIs and client-server integration patterns • Experience architecting media playback and streaming protocols • Experience with CDN configurations and cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP • Experience integrating GDPR and CPRA privacy compliance standards • Experience with cloud cost optimization frameworks in high-availability environments • Experience with Git, continuous integration pipelines, and automated testing frameworks • Ability to translate complex business and product requirements into architectural designs across multiple engineering teams • Ability to conduct code reviews and promote engineering best practices • Ability to diagnose and resolve production incidents during on-call rotation • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical work experience • Preferred: familiarity with Go or PHP in event-driven or microservice architectures • Preferred: experience with edge media caches, relational databases/SQL, or open-source software

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents • Health and wellness benefits • Paid time off • Financial well-being benefits • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Voluntary retirement savings • Remote work option within an NPR-supported location in the United States • On-site work option at an NPR facility, subject to desk availability and approval • Combination of remote and on-site work • Travel to other locations as needed