Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Cards

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 Cards team at The New York Times is looking for a collaborative full-stack software engineer who is interested in working within a journalism-driven engineering team. You will report to the Engineering Manager on the Cards team and join a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to elevate card-based storytelling.

You will use your frontend engineering skills to develop our suite of visual and mobile-first reader-facing formats such as Bursts and Tap Stories, at scale. In addition, you will use your backend engineering skills to develop editing tools and workflows, allowing our newsroom to author and publish these formats for diverse reporting needs.  

Responsibilities:

• Lead feature development from technical design to production operation, serving both our readers and internal users (editors)
• Work across the stack, build systems in modern technologies, write high-quality code, and expand your skills
• Prototype news-driven experiments, and then scale these systems
• Ensure features you create are performant, reliable and scalable
• Operate at the speed of news, responding within hours rather than days, to seize news opportunities

Our tech stack:

React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Next.js, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Datastore and GCP

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience developing large-scale web applications and features using modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server
• Full-stack technical background with expertise in one or more areas of the stack
• 3+ years of experience with one or more frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) and web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web performance, accessibility)
• 3+ years of experience with one or more backend languages (Node.js, Java, Go)
• 1+ years of experience with one or more persistence technologies (SQL or NoSQL)
• History of proactive collaboration, and curiosity for exploring new product domains

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in journalism or media 
• Experience with frontend work involving video and images
• Experience with public cloud platform services such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience implementing CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring and other DevOps practices

Application Process

In place of a cover letter, please attach a PDF document with brief (1-2 paragraph) responses to these questions:

• What interests you about the intersection of product and engineering? Tell us about an experience where combining your product and engineering thinking helped shape a meaningful experience. What impact did it have for the users? 
• Tell us about a project you worked on that demonstrated your ability to shepard a feature from start to finish.

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

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$140,000—$155,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate