Staff Engineer, Web Platforms - Web

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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.

Note for US based roles: Any offer of employment is contingent on providing proof of Covid-19 vaccination prior to your start date, subject to approved medical and/or religious exemptions, in accordance with applicable law.

Job Description

About the Role

When news breaks, readers from around the world turn to The New York Times for trustworthy, authoritative coverage. Every day, journalists at The New York Times report more than 200 stories from dozens of countries around the world on topics ranging from major international events to the best way to roast a chicken. Those stories are read, listened to, and watched by more than 100 million users each month across our web and mobile products.

As a world-class digital media business, we are continuing to expand our deep investment in engineering and are looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Web Platforms team. This is an opportunity to make a big impact on a vital team, and you’ll be part of an engineering organization that values empathy, collaboration, transparency, diversity, and learning. In this role, you will report to Tim Fisher and work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver capabilities across our suite of products.

About The Team

The Web Platforms team enables the development of highly scalable, secure, sustainable, and consistent web products at NYT by delivering high quality full stack common components, libraries and frameworks, and by providing innovative & well-informed thought leadership on best practices around web application architecture and operations.

What You’ll Do

• Translate broad business goals into practical technical solutions with realistic milestones
• Organize and guide balanced decisions across your peers for architecture, design, and implementation details
• Gather support on your technical strategy through collaborative discussions with adjacent teams and other partners
• Create strategies for delivering new capabilities while paying down technical debt and investing in engineering excellence
• Advise engineering management and product management on assessing technical complexity and resourcing needs
• Support engineers in your team in developing architecture, design, development, testing, delivery and operations systems and solutions
• Mentor engineers to level up the group's abilities

About You

• 6+ years full stack web engineering experience
• A passion for web development
• Strong experience with JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS
• Experience building complex distributed systems at scale, with an emphasis on fault tolerance, stability, observability and operability.
• Experience with public cloud platform services: Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Nice if you are knowledgeable in any of: Python, Typescript
• Conversant in Lean, DevSecOps, GitOps, etc.
• Kanban or other agile methodologies
• Accessibility (A11Y)

Culture and Benefits

We’ve won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other organization (including four in 2022).

• We are a New York-based engineering organization that embraces a remote-friendly workplace and includes engineers around the world.

We offer generous parental leave and 6% 401(k) matching in addition to a variety of other benefits.

We value a growth mindset and provide a formal mentoring program, $8k annual tuition reimbursement, a week of dedicated time for learning, and an annual Maker Week event.

To learn more about our work and NYT’s broader technology organization check out the Times Open blog, and our open-source projects, and follow @nytopen on Twitter!

This role may 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 $160,000.00 and $175,000.00.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws, and will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.