Senior Engineer - Web Platforms
The New York TimesBase Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop the web platform while maintaining reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Promote high-quality releases focused on user experience and web performance.
- Collaborate with the team to shape priorities and the long-term roadmap.
- Provide feedback through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting for platform-level escalations.
- Partner with engineering teams through technical discussions, documentation, and issue troubleshooting.
- Support The New York Times’ mission and value of journalistic independence.
Requirements
- At least five years of full-stack web development experience with the modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem.
- Experience with application build tools, monorepo tooling and practices, and frontend frameworks including React, Vite, and TanStack Start.
- Experience building centralized systems for internal engineering teams.
- Familiarity with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
- Experience designing, implementing, testing, and documenting projects.
- Experience with GenAI tooling such as skills creation or agentic workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD tools, including GitHub Actions.
- Experience leading complex initiatives.
- Preferred experience with client-side GraphQL tooling and GraphQL data fetching, caching, error handling, and performance optimization.
- Preferred experience building and supporting shared tools, frameworks, or services on a platform team.
- Ability to evaluate and adopt evolving web standards and industry practices across frontend tooling, JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS.
Benefits
- Hybrid remote/in-office role
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- Company-matching 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development programs
- Eligible for variable pay, including an annual bonus and restricted stock
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About The New York Times
The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories that might otherwise go untold. Whether bringing new truths to light with our reporting, building innovative products that deliver a best-in-class digital experience, or analyzing data to understand how we can best serve our readers, our people power the world’s top destination for journalism. Working at The Times means envisioning and developing the future of journalism. Bring your passion, perspective and experience and join us as we seek the truth and help people understand the world. Check out our career opportunities (nytco.com/careers) and follow our page to connect with Times employees, journalists and readers.