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NPR

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1970

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $4.7M Grant on 2020-05

Media • Non-profit • Social Impact

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

• Architect Personalization & Data Systems: Lead the design, optimization, and scaling of real-time data ecosystems and event-driven pipelines that power personalized audience experiences across NPR digital platforms. • Establish Self-Service Infrastructure: Design robust frameworks, governance standards, and APIs that enable engineering, analytics, and marketing teams to autonomously leverage data and personalization tools. • Guide Technology Strategy & Standards: Evaluate emerging technologies, establish modern architecture standards (including medallion architecture and orchestration frameworks), and drive adoption across product lines. • Technical Oversight & Governance: Provide technical direction and cross-divisional oversight for complex, high-impact engineering projects impacting multiple teams and systems. • Collaborative Solutioning & Planning: Partner with product managers, engineering leaders, and stakeholders during OKR planning, roadmap development, and technical proposal reviews. • Code & Architecture Quality: Mentor engineering peers through substantive design reviews, code standards definition, security/privacy alignment (GDPR/CPPA), and cost-optimization practices. • Production Excellence & Operational Support: Participate in system deployments, establish CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production incidents, and join the engineering on-call rotation after initial onboarding. • Team Growth & Inclusion: Assist in onboarding new technical staff, participate in inclusive hiring practices, and proactively contribute to continuous process improvements within scrum environments.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and leading solutioning and architecture planning in a multi-team environment. • 5+ years of experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency as first-class concerns. • 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc) and infrastructure as code (eg. Terraform). • 5+ years of experience building applications that span multiple platforms such as web, mobile, voice, API’s, and system integrations using modern languages and frameworks. • Demonstrated experience integrating with external API's / Services. • Ability to design and lead practical technical design. • Demonstrated expertise in designing real-time integrations and data-centric applications & services that power personalized user experiences at scale. • Expertise in data governance strategy and implementation. • Familiarity with medallion architecture. • Fluent in Node/TypeScript, Python. • Experience building consumers facing high traffic applications and related concerns - SEO, Browser performance, CDN configurations etc. • Experience with Data Privacy and Compliance (GDPR, CPPA etc) concerns. • Experience with test and development automation. • Experience working with a version control system (Git preferred). • Experience with cost-optimization & controls, forecasting, and evaluating trade offs for high availability systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• access to health and wellness • paid time off • financial well-being • medical plans • dental plans • vision plans • life insurance • long-term disability • short-term disability • voluntary retirement savings