The Atlantic is looking for an innovative, analytical, and curious Senior Engineer to join our Monetization & Growth team. We aim to support a more thoughtful American public by powering and expanding our Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism. Guided by our readers and informed by data, you will build products and systems that amplify our impact and reach. We pride ourselves on maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture that values continuous learning, elegant problem solving, supportive teamwork, and delivering value.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience building and evolving production web products
Experience working with advertising systems, monetization integrations, and/or ad-supported digital products
Experience building and debugging user-facing product experiences in close partnership with product and design
Experience owning technical work in production, including troubleshooting, operational responsibility, and sound engineering judgment
Understanding of how third-party integrations, performance, and product decisions can affect advertising or revenue outcomes
Ability to work through ambiguity, break complex problems into technical plans, and drive execution with appropriate stakeholder communication
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with modern web application architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and deployment workflows
Familiarity with direct-sold and programmatic advertising workflows, audience activation, or third-party monetization vendors
Experience improving performance for ad-supported experiences, including latency, rendering behavior, layout stability, and core web vitals
Strong frontend judgment around responsive layouts, embedded third-party experiences, and debugging placement or creative-sizing issues
Experience supporting product experiences across both web and app surfaces
Familiarity with audience data, targeting, experimentation, consent, or measurement systems
2+ years in a technical leadership role, whether through leading projects, mentoring engineers, or shaping architectural decisions
Background in media, publishing, subscriptions, or other consumer product environments with meaningful third-party integrations and data flows
As a Senior Engineer at The Atlantic, you will
Write, test, debug, document, deploy, and maintain code across our full stack
Build and improve systems that support monetization, advertising, and reader-facing product experiences
Partner with Product and Design to turn ambiguous requirements into well-scoped technical solutions
Work closely with the Mobile Engineering team on app monetization efforts while remaining anchored on Monetization & Growth priorities
Help evaluate, integrate, and improve third-party platforms and vendors that support advertising, targeting, experimentation, and monetization
Improve ad-supported product experiences with a focus on performance, reliability, layout stability, and reader experience
Participate in and contribute to code reviews, sprint planning, technical documentation, and broader engineering collaboration
Participate in an on-call rotation outside standard business hours to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues
Research and recommend technical approaches for future product and platform improvements, presenting tradeoffs clearly
Demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, and helping maintain a high bar for quality across the engineering organization
Balance revenue impact, implementation complexity, system health, and user experience when making technical decisions
Work effectively across product, data, revenue, legal, and vendor stakeholders on business-critical systems with real operational dependencies
The role will at times include night, early-morning, and weekend work.
As an Atlantic Engineer, you are
A talented programmer: you are proficient in modern full-stack web development and write clean,…