Software engineer storytelling video

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 New York Times is hiring a Software Engineer for the Storytelling Video team, where you will shape our audience experiences video across all our platforms and advance the newsroom's video goals.

You will closely partner with fellow engineers, Product and Design colleagues to deliver features and build scalable, sustainable systems, which include the foundational components of our video player, and innovative, reader-facing video formats that tell impactful stories.

We will look to you to bring fluency in web technologies, experience solving problems in new product spaces, interest in shaping thoughtful video experiences and a product-engineering mindset to deliver a world class user experience.

The primary technologies used on our team include React, Preact, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of video features from technical design through production operation.
• Build frontend solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable across browsers and platforms.
• Proactively improve the quality of our systems, using engineering mindset and data-driven approaches to identify and resolve issues.
• Contribute to technical strategy design, aligning technical considerations behind product and newsroom objectives using a product engineering mindset.
• 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.
• You'll report to the Engineering Manager, Storytelling Video.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of frontend development experience with knowledge of web fundamentals and modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server (e.g. React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
• Familiarity with backend technologies, data persistence and cloud infrastructure (e.g. GraphQL, SQL, NoSQL, GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience building, launching and maintaining user-facing features
• Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment
• Proven experience working in a highly-collaborative cross-functional team
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to web video, including browser video APIs, streaming protocols, and playback performance considerations
• Experience integrating video into multimedia experiences
• Familiarity with the wider web video ecosystem
• Experience with Software DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring
  
  

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$110,000 - $130,000 USD

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