Senior Software Engineer, Starter Kit

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.

About the Role

The Starter Kit team is dedicated to building intuitive and efficient interfaces for the new Scoop Publishing Platform which will enable our newsrooms to provide the best news coverage across the bundle. Keeping both our newsroom and technology users top of mind, our engineers work closely with our product and design partners to ensure functional needs are met across a variety of workflows while maintaining a library of features that can be customized and built upon by any product team.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in stateful interactive applications with both frontend UI / UX and backend APIs to join our team and both lead and work on challenging problems to bring the new publishing platform to all New York Times newsrooms. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Starter Kit.

Responsibilities :

Build features for the Starter Kit platform that satisfy user workflows and provide a great developer experience for product teams.

Write, test, debug, and deploy code across a variety of languages and frameworks primarily in JavaScript / TypeScript, React, and Go.

Work with the team to build components and systems that are highly scalable and fault tolerant.

Collaborate with Product and Design partners to translate requirements and mock ups into engineering tickets.

Grow the skills of colleagues through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.

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.

Basic Qualifications :

5+ years of full-time software engineering experience working with technologies such as React, GraphQL, and DOM libraries

5+ years of full stack software development experience with demonstrated front end expertise

Knowledge of software principles, application architecture, data structures, coding conventions, testing frameworks and security best practices

Experience collaborating with cross functional partners as well as other engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience with collaborative editing (OT, CRDT, ProseMirror)

Experience with backend technologies and APIs in languages such as Go and Node

This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between :

$140,000 — $160,000 USD

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