Senior Engineer, Starter Kit

Senior Software Engineer, Starter Kit

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.

The Starter Kit team is dedicated to building intuitive and efficient interfaces for the new Scoop Publishing Platform which will allow our newsrooms to provide the best news coverage across the bundle. Our engineers keep both our newsroom and technology users top of mind. They work with our product and design partners to ensure functional needs are met across a variety of workflows.

Meanwhile, they maintain a library of features that can be customized and built upon by any product team.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in both frontend UI/UX and backend APIs. This engineer will join our team and lead on challenging problems. You will also build these problems to bring the new publishing platform to all New York Times newsrooms. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Starter Kit.

Responsibilities:

• Build features for the Starter Kit platform that satisfy user workflows and provide a great developer experience for product teams
• Write, test, debug, and deploy code across a variety of languages and frameworks including React and Go
• Work with the team to build components and systems that are scalable and fault tolerant
• Collaborate with Product and Design partners to translate requirements and mock ups into engineering tickets
• Grow the skills of colleagues through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience working with technologies such as React, GraphQL, GCP or AWS, and CI/CD
• Full stack software development experience with demonstrated front end expertise
• Knowledge of software principles, application architecture, data structures, coding conventions, testing frameworks and security best practices
• Experience collaborating with partners and other engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with backend technologies and building APIs in languages such as Go, Python, or Java
• Experience building software tools on top of existing platforms

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.