Software Engineer, News Multimodal
The New York TimesBase Salary
$110k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development and delivery of multimodal features and newsroom programming tools from technical design through production operation.
- Build performant, reliable, and scalable frontend solutions across browsers and platforms.
- Build robust backend services supporting high-scale media workflows.
- Improve system quality and resolve issues using engineering and data-driven approaches.
- Contribute to technical design discussions aligned with product and newsroom objectives.
- Provide production support and participate in limited on-call rotations for reader-facing experiences and newsroom tooling.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to create multimodal user experiences.
Requirements
- At least two years of professional experience building and shipping full-stack, user-facing features in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
- Full-stack proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks on the client and server, plus HTML and CSS fundamentals.
- Experience with backend technologies, databases, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure, including technologies such as GraphQL, SQL, Kafka, Redis Queues, GCP, and AWS.
- Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in production environments.
- Preferred: experience building web-based audio or video experiences using browser media APIs, streaming, and playback performance techniques.
- Preferred: familiarity with text-to-speech or automated voice generation workflows.
- Preferred: familiarity with players, encoding, streaming, accessibility, and analytics in the web media ecosystem.
- Preferred: experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD tooling such as Drone and Jenkins, automated testing, deployments, observability, and monitoring.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by #LI-Hybrid.
- Limited on-call hours with a schedule determined after joining.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be available for U.S. roles.
- Flexible Spending Accounts may be available.
- Company-matching 401(k) plan may be available.
- Paid vacation and paid sick days may be available.
- Paid parental leave may be available.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs may be available.
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