Senior Software Engineer, Community

Frontend Software Engineer

The New York Times is looking for a collaborative frontend software engineer with an interest in working at the forefront of news, a desire to shape meaningful experiences for our readers and directly supporting the mission of The Times. You will report to the Community Engineering Manager within the Storytelling organization and join a team of engineers, designers, and product managers to create destinations for reporters to engage with readers, as we work towards enhancing our comments infrastructure into a comments platform for the entire NYT bundle. You'll use your engineering expertise to build web-based reader facing experiences that are performant and accessible; guide improvements in our moderation tooling to ensure our moderators can follow commenting standards; help level up engineering standards to turn a collection of services into a single community platform for the entire NYT bundle; and collaborate with community backend engineers in building reliable services which integrate with web and mobile surfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, creation and maintenance of scalable frontend systems that are performant across browsers and platforms.
• Prototype experiments with designers and product managers
• Ensure seamless integrations of services in collaboration with backend engineers
• Use modern approaches to monitoring and observability to detect and resolve issues
• Learn and share new technologies with other engineers
• Mentors junior engineers by providing technical guidance, constructive feedback, and ongoing support to accelerate skill development and career growth.
• Improve internal team processes, norms and documentation appropriate for a high-class platform team
• Occasionally work at the speed of news, to take advantage of news opportunities
• 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:

• Have 5+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale user facing web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server
• Demonstrate expertise in frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), web standards and technologies (W3C, web performance, accessibility, routing, and bundling)
• Lead technical projects and architectural decisions informed by business context
• Demonstrate proficiency resolving issues in a production environment
• Demonstrate proficiency with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Github Actions, Drone), automated and load testing, feature flag deployments, observability, and monitoring
• Demonstrate proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Can create clear, organized written and visual communication
• Explore new and unfamiliar product spaces, and share insights with your team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Build and deploy applications in one or more backend languages (Node.js, Python, Go), to collaborate with backend engineers
• Find their way around cloud platform services such as GCP or AWS
• Explain the purpose behind one or more Agile methodologies

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role based in our New York headquarters.

The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 — $160,000 USD

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