The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website. The company offers live news, investigations, opinion pieces, photos, videos, and analysis on a wide range of topics inc...

Media
1K-5K
Founded 1851

Description

  • Collaborate with Design and Product teams to build a beautiful, performant, and well-engineered web UI.
  • Architect and implement backend APIs optimized for performance, scalability, growth, and ease of future development.
  • Develop and maintain all parts of the stack, including web frontend, backend/API, devops, databases, and analytics.
  • Write unit, functional, and integration tests to ensure code and product quality.
  • Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other team members.
  • Influence technology direction and contribute to architectural and tooling decisions.
  • Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements and iterate on team processes.
  • Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders such as Advertising, Editorial, and Marketing.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a relevant discipline preferred.
  • Experience building web frontends and backends and owning full-stack features.
  • Experience writing unit, functional, and integration tests and diagnosing production issues.
  • Familiarity with React (Next.js) and Apollo/GraphQL or PHP (WordPress) with REST APIs (preferred).
  • Familiarity with data stores such as MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch) (preferred).
  • Experience mentoring or providing guidance to other engineers (preferred).
  • Must be located in and eligible to work remotely from the United States or Canada.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range: $120,000 - $140,000 USD.
  • Highly competitive employer-contributed medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus basic life and disability coverage.
  • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
  • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, and 15 days of accrued vacation to start.
  • Up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
  • 100% remote work eligibility for candidates residing in the United States or Canada; global employees receive comparable local benefits.

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