# Software Engineer

Job Description: POLITICO is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our Technology team in Brussels. The way information is produced, discovered, and consumed is changing rapidly. At POLITICO, we build products that help our users understand complex political environments and make better-informed decisions. Today, that means rethinking how AI can improve access to our content and data, how our products can become smarter and more personalized, and how we build a consistent experience for our audience across our transatlantic organization. We are looking first and foremost for a Software Engineer who can design systems, rather than a specialist in a particular language or framework. We fully embrace AI-generated code as part of modern software engineering. What matters is the ability to understand a problem, design the right system, give AI tools the right context and constraints, critically evaluate their output, and take ownership of the result. We also believe great engineering happens through close collaboration. Being together makes it easier to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, make decisions quickly, and solve complex problems as a team. That is why this is a B

- **Id**: 49534
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/politico-full-stack-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Brussels, Belgium
- **Countries**: BE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-17T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T05:37:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 118
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7297
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Government, Media & Entertainment, Digital Media

## Company

- **Id**: 11390
- **Name**: Politico
- **Domain**: politico.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/politico>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 44000
- **Max usd**: 123000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 15

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Ruby on Rails** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 118

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-07-17T00:00:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.598
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 118
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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