Software Engineer, News Multimodal

The New York Times•New York, NY

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

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, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis Queues, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.

Requirements

2+ years of professional experience building and shipping fullstack 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, TypeScript, 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.

Nice To Haves

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 DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring.

Responsibilities

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.