Job Description

The New York Times has been fulfilling our mission to "seek the truth and help people understand the world" for nearly 170 years by delivering world-class journalism. As we seek to become a leader in the digital media business, we are expanding our investment in engineering to build strategic platforms to enhance the work of our journalists and product partners, and deliver innovation at the speed of news.

The Role:

We are looking for creative and experienced back-end software engineers to build the next-generation of technology that will support the hundreds of millions of New York Times readers across the globe on a daily basis. We are looking for engineers that will empower the next generation of excellence in a wide range of areas which include, but are not limited to - distributed systems, identity and access management, ecommerce, data pipelines, content delivery and AI.  As an engineer at the Times you will partner closely with front end engineers, product leads and design leads to create the next generation of products that will make the sharing of information (from news to cooking to games) fun, exciting and stimulating to the audiences we serve. You will work in an environment powered by collaboration, experimentation and data.  And most importantly you will be working in an environment where you can bring your genuine self to work because we value diversity, equity and inclusion at the Times.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, test, deploy and operate highly performant and fault-tolerant systems at scale.

Develop standards, libraries and processes that allow other teams to integrate with our platform smoothly and securely

Provide expertise and recommendations on technical designs relating to the domain you serve

Improve and uphold our code quality through test automation, code reviews, and other best practices

Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional partners to create requirements and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions

Contribute to planning, prioritization and delivery of projects and products.

Mentor engineers to level up the group's abilities

You have solid experience in:

At least one back-end programming language (Java, Go, etc.)

Cloud-based (AWS/GCP) architecture and technologies at scale

Troubleshooting complex systems using tools such as DataDog, SumoLogic, Stackdriver or similar

Experience in Agile methodologies

Skills & Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or relevant work experience in a related field.

More education or experience may be required.

Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Go,  PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.

Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.

Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.

Excellent project and time management skills.

Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to work independently or with a group

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