Software Engineer, News Multimodal

About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times is hiring a full-stack Software Engineer for the News Product Multimodal team. In this role, you will develop our audio and video features into a truly multimodal experience, shaping how tens of millions of people watch, listen to, and engage with our journalism every day.

You’ll work with engineers, designers, and product managers to build immersive frontend formats and multimodal user experiences. You will also build scalable systems—including our core video player and automated voice services—and the essential programming tools our editors use to publish multimodal coverage across all platforms.

We are looking for a candidate with a product‑engineering mindset who is passionate about shaping thoughtful, world‑class user experiences across all our platforms.

The primary technologies used on our team include React, Preact, JavaScript, Type Script, Node.js, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis Queues, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.

You’ll report to the Senior Engineering Manager for News Multimodal.

• Lead the development and delivery of multimodal features and newsroom programming tools from technical design to production operation.
• Build frontend solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable across browsers and platforms.
• Build robust backend services to support high‑scale media workflows.
• Proactively improve the quality of our systems and resolve issues, using engineering mindset and data‑driven approaches.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, aligning engineering considerations behind product and newsroom objectives.
• Provide production support and join our on‑call rotations for our reader‑facing experiences and newsroom tooling.
• 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.

• 2+ years of professional experience building and shipping full‑stack user‑facing features in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment.
• Full‑stack proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server and web fundamentals (e.g., React, Node.js, Type Script, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Experience with backend technologies and databases (e.g., GraphQL, SQL), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, Redis Queues) and cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS).
• Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment.

• Experience building web‑based audio or video experiences, including browser media APIs, streaming, and playback performance.
• Familiarity with audio workflows such as text‑to‑speech or automated voice generation.
• Familiarity with the web media ecosystem (players, encoding, streaming, accessibility, analytics).
• Experience with Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g., Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring.

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.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $110,000 and $130,000 USD. For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts, a company‑matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not…