The New York Times-posted 29 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • New York, NY
5,001-10,000 employees

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 Community team at The New York Times is looking for a collaborative frontend software engineer with an interest in working at the forefront of news, a desire to shape meaningful experiences for our readers and directly supporting the mission of The Times. You will report to the Community Engineering Manager within the Storytelling organization and join a team of engineers, designers, and product managers to create destinations for reporters to engage with readers, as we work towards enhancing our comments infrastructure into a comments platform for the entire NYT bundle. You'll use your engineering expertise to build web-based reader facing experiences that are performant and accessible; guide improvements in our moderation tooling to ensure our moderators can follow commenting standards; help level up engineering standards to turn a collection of services into a single community platform for the entire NYT bundle; and collaborate with community backend engineers in building reliable services which integrate with web and mobile surfaces.

  • Lead the architecture, creation and maintenance of scalable frontend systems that are performant across browsers and platforms.
  • Prototype experiments with designers and product managers
  • Ensure seamless integrations of services in collaboration with backend engineers
  • Use modern approaches to monitoring and observability to detect and resolve issues
  • Learn and share new technologies with other engineers
  • Mentors junior engineers by providing technical guidance, constructive feedback, and ongoing support to accelerate skill development and career growth.
  • Improve internal team processes, norms and documentation appropriate for a high-class platform team
  • Occasionally work at the speed of news, to take advantage of news opportunities
  • 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.
  • Have 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale user facing web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server
  • Demonstrate expertise in frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), web standards and technologies (W3C, web performance, accessibility, routing, and bundling)
  • Lead technical projects and architectural decisions informed by business context
  • Demonstrate proficiency resolving issues in a production environment
  • Demonstrate proficiency with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Github Actions, Drone), automated and load testing, feature flag deployments, observability, and monitoring
  • Demonstrate proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Can create clear, organized written and visual communication
  • Explore new and unfamiliar product spaces, and share insights with your team
  • Build and deploy applications in one or more backend languages (Node.js, Python, Go), to collaborate with backend engineers
  • Find their way around cloud platform services such as GCP or AWS
  • Explain the purpose behind one or more Agile methodologies
© 2024 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service