Full Stack Developer with JavaScript and GraphQL

Join POLITICO Europe as a Full Stack Developer

POLITICO is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer to join our pioneering and growing media company in Brussels. Political decision-making is distributed, disorganized, and generally hard to follow at a larger scale, this is the issue we work on at POLITICO. By collecting, normalizing, organizing and thoughtfully presenting information we give individuals and organizations greater insight into political processes around the world.

What You’ll Do

As a full stack developer at POLITICO, you’ll work on all aspects of our stack ranging from data collection systems, REST and GraphQL APIs, background jobs, serverless applications, frontend single page applications, and cloud infrastructure. You will be an important player in an agile development team dedicated to building the technology that delivers our POLITICO Pro platform to policy professionals.

Our team holds itself to the highest standard and employs techniques such as conventional commits, continuous integration, test-driven development, infrastructure as code, and agile development with two-week sprints. We expect you to align with our core values and be a driving force towards further improvements of code quality and excellence in delivering our applications to customers.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience in building and working with large multi-service applications.
• Fluency in English; any other European language is an asset.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable in an international environment.
• Highly proficient in JavaScript, with a strong track record in web development, while demonstrating the ability to adapt to various programming languages as needed.
• Experience with frontend frameworks like Vue or React.
• Understand asynchronous concepts like message queues and service interoperability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (Amazon Web Services and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) is a bonus).
• Experience with Kubernetes is a bonus.
• Experience with React Native is a bonus.

We Value Our People

Our benefits package is built for you, and includes:

• Hybrid work: Whether you love company and enjoy collaborating with colleagues in person or want some time alone at home to get some deep work done.
• Work from abroad days: Fancy a workday from atop a mountain resort, or want to work from your parent’s dining room table around the holidays? POLITICO offers the opportunity to work from abroad for a limited period each year.
• Health and Wellness: Across the different cities where we have offices, we offer various initiatives that contribute to your well-being.
• Transportation: Say goodbye to traffic jams and hello to smooth commutes. POLITICO partially covers public transportation costs.
• Personal and Professional Growth: From dedicated pieces of training to regular career chats, with our Grow@POLITICO program, we put your professional development and growth first.

About POLITICO

POLITICO is a global news and information company at the intersection of politics and policy. It is the essential online, mobile and print destination for the most influential people in the world. With publications based in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, and Brussels, POLITICO boasts an enormous roster of the most talented reporters and editors in the world.

Equal Opportunity

It is POLITICO's policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, gender, age or any other characteristic protected by local laws and regulations.

Application Instructions & Further Details

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a CV and motivation letter in English outlining why you’re right for this role.

Location: Brussels

Employment level: Full-time

Type of role: Specialist

Updated: Aug 8, 2024

Job ID: 00564