Associate Software Engineer, NYT Cooking Publishing

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a full stack Software Engineer to join the NYT Cooking team. NYT Cooking helps you discover and cook the world’s best recipes. The NYT Cooking team is tight knit and interdisciplinary — we collaborate with our design, data, product, and editorial partners to develop new features for both our responsive website and mobile apps. We are made up of small, focused groups tasked with building great cooking experiences on a variety of devices and platforms, including web, iOS and Android. You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Cooking Publishing team.

Responsibilities:

• You will join Cooking’s Publishing team.
• You will work on our editorial tooling, creating software that supports our editors and eventually Cooking’s end users.
• You will work with product, design, data, and editorial partners to better the Cooking publishing platform and make it easier for editors to create content and users to find our recipes and cook with us more often.
• Your work will allow editors to develop their content more quickly and easily through tooling like a new Recipe Editor.
• You will help us build a technical vision based on evaluating existing technologies, partnering with product, design and other publishing-focused teams within the company, and using out-of-the-box software built for publishing teams across the Times.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience building and maintaining modern web applications in a professional setting (internships included)
• 1+ years of experience with Javascript, Typescript, React, Next.js
• An understanding of internal tooling systems and how to support their users
• 1+ years of experience troubleshooting systems using observability and monitoring tools
• 1+ years of experience experience collaborating with cross-functional partners

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider products and services
• Familiarity with Docker or similar containerization service
• Database experience, particularly using PostgreSQL

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$96,000—$110,000 USD

 

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all  backgrounds to apply.

We are  an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here. 

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