Senior Software Engineer, Community

The New York Times•New York, NY

27d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.