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Über diese Senior Full Stack Engineer, Games Web Platform Team Stelle bei The New York Times

The New York Times · Hybrid · New York, NY

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, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times is looking for a Web Platform Engineer with full-stack skills to join the Web Platform squad within the Games team.

You'll join a foundational squad of engineers, designers, and product managers to help create incredible, immersive gaming experiences across The New York Times' suite of unique games. Additionally, you'll build the infrastructure and new puzzle capabilities that power our world-class content including the internal editorial tools that allow our puzzle creators to delight our players daily. You'll also be part of an engineering organization that values transparency, diversity, learning, and building a community of practice.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop the foundational web infrastructure and shared component libraries that help engineering teams to ship high-quality gaming experiences.
  • Develop new puzzle capabilities for the internal editorial platform, empowering content creators to build immersive new games.
  • Build performant, scalable APIs in Go to support the evolving needs of the Games ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and Production to translate creative visions into technical solutions.
  • Champion operational and tech excellence by participating in code reviews, defining best practices, and contributing to the engineering community of practice.
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence
  • You'll report to the Engineering Manager, Games Web Platform Squad.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining features within high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in front-end fundamentals and frameworks, including JavaScript (ES6+), semantic HTML, and CSS/SCSS, and React (or a similar modern framework.)
  • Experience building shared component libraries to guide UI consistency and developer velocity across an organization, which they designed.
  • Experience writing performant server-side code; while we use Go, experience with Java or Python is applicable.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure including AWS (or GCP), containerized environments (Docker), and Edge computing/CDNs like Fastly.
  • A collaborative, product-oriented mindset with experience working with partners like Product, Design, and Editorial teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Prior experience in the gaming industry with web-based games, puzzles, or interactive media.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Drone, or Terraform) and a "DevOps" approach to platform stability.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, or Grafana) to improve the player experience.

This role will require 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

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs. 

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an Engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all  backgrounds to apply.

We are  an Equal Opportunity Employer and do 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 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

For information about The New York Times' privacy practices for job applicants click here.

Please beware of fraudulent job postings. Scammers may post fraudulent job opportunities, and they may even make fraudulent employment offers. This is done by bad actors to collect personal information and money from victims. All legitimate job opportunities from The New York Times will be accessible through The New York Times careers site. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. You should never send money to anyone who suggests they can provide employment with The New York Times.

If you see a fake or fraudulent job posting, or if you suspect you have received a fraudulent offer, you can report it to The New York Times at NYTapplicants@nytimes.com. You can also file a report with the Federal Trade Commission or your state attorney general.

 

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Über The New York Times

At The Times, our mission is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Having a diverse staff with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences is vital to ensuring we cover the world fully and fairly and offering products that have a wide appeal.

Our vision is to become the essential subscription for every curious person seeking to understand and engage with the world. This work is supported by our journalists and a range of dedicated individuals, from data scientists to marketers, designers, engineers and more.

Our cutting-edge journalism reaches 150 million readers each month, and is produced by journalists reporting on the ground from more than 170 countries.

If you find our mission and vision inspiring, we invite you to apply for any of our open positions. And if you are a current Times employee, please apply on our internal job board.

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