Senior Software Engineer, Storytelling Video Frontend

The New York Times • New York, NY

125d • $140,000 - $155,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The New York Times is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Storytelling Video team, where you will shape our audience experiences video across all our platforms and advance the newsroom's video goals. You will lead the definition and execution of major components in our next-generation strategy for News Video. You will partner with Product and Design colleagues and fellow engineers to design scalable, sustainable systems, which include the foundational components of our video player, and innovative, reader-facing video formats that tell impactful stories. We will look to you to bring expertise in web technologies, experience solving complex problems, and a product-engineering mindset to deliver a world class user experience. You will not only write code but also mentor other engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across the organization to guide our video strategy forward. You will report to the Engineering Manager, Storytelling Video. The primary technologies used on our team include React, Preact, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL.

Requirements

• 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) and web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web performance, accessibility)
• 3+ years of full-stack development experience, including backend languages (Node.js, Java), persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining user-facing experiences
• Experience leading technical projects and driving architectural decisions
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience with web video handling, including browser video APIs, streaming protocols, performance optimization, playback reliability, and using analytics to guide technical strategy
• Experience integrating video into multimedia experiences
• Familiarity with the wider web video ecosystem, including CDNs and video infrastructure
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of video initiatives from technical design through production operation.
• Architect and build frontend solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable across browsers and platforms.
• Develop technical strategies for video that scale across use cases, using data to inform architectural decisions.
• Improve video playback performance and reliability with rigorous engineering mindset.
• Align technical decisions behind product and newsroom objectives using a product engineering mindset.
• Reliably resolve urgent or complex issues, triaging effectively and identifying long-term improvements.
• Collaborate across the wider organization to drive end-to-end video delivery improvements.
• 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.

Benefits

• The annual base pay range for this role is between $140,000-$155,000 USD.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees