Software Engineer, Publishing Technology
The New York Times
Job Description
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 looking for a Software Engineer to help build our next generation of internal tools and services to support our production and publishing operations. We are rebuilding our manufacturing and publishing workflow systems in the latest cloud technologies, with a focus on microservices and serverless technology.
You'll work on systems that support our publishing workflow and plant manufacturing systems. You will work with the latest cloud-based technologies, building applications in serverless and container technology from back-end workflow engines, data mining, API, and websites. We are entirely cloud-focused; our group is completely invested in AWS Lambda functions and a variety of other serverless AWS Managed Services. You'll participate in discovery, analysis, requirements gathering, design, and implementation. You will help in transforming our systems and deployment methodologies to be aligned with the current best practices models.
You will be reporting to the Senior Director of the Publishing Technology Software Engineering team. Your teammates will be other Systems Analysts, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Project Managers, all working in an Agile environment. You will work with internal customers company wide as you build applications that produce the world's greatest journalism.
This position is hybrid remote/in-office (2 days/3 days)
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Responsibilities:
- As part of an internal application development team, you will develop internal applications in TypeScript, Node.j, and JavaScript.
- You will work on frontend and backend code bases.
- 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:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, and JavaScript environments
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
- Experience building applications using React.js
- Experience communicating with internal customers, technical peers, and management
- Experience building applications on a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP)
- Experience building and integrating APIs
- Experience dissecting, understanding, and building complex systems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Terraform and Drone
- Experience building microservices and working with AWS Lambda, S3, API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, AWS RDS and other AWS serverless resources
- Some experience with C/C++ would be nice to have.
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