Senior Engineer, Starter Kit

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

, Mission or Department Overview The Starter Kit team is dedicated to building intuitive and efficient interfaces for the new Scoop Publishing Platform which will allow our newsrooms to provide the best news coverage across the bundle. Our engineers keep both our newsroom and technology users top of mind. They work with our product and design partners to ensure functional needs are met across a variety of workflows.

Meanwhile, they maintain a library of features that can be customized and built upon by any product team. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in both frontend UI/UX and backend APIs. This engineer will join our team and lead on challenging problems.

You will also build these problems to bring the new publishing platform to all New York Times newsrooms. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Starter Kit.

Responsibilities

: Build features for the Starter Kit platform that satisfy user workflows and provide a great developer experience for product teams Write, test, debug, and deploy code across a variety of languages and frameworks including React and Go Work with the team to build components and systems that are scalable and fault tolerant Collaborate with Product and Design partners to translate

Requirements

and mock ups into engineering tickets Grow the skills of colleagues through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world Basic

Qualifications

: 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience working with technologies such as React, GraphQL, GCP or AWS, and CI/CD Full stack software development experience with demonstrated front end expertise Knowledge of software principles, application architecture, data structures, coding conventions, testing frameworks and security best practices Experience collaborating with partners and other engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

: Experience with backend technologies and building APIs in languages such as Go, Python, or Java Experience building software tools on top of existing platforms #LI-Hybrid REQ-020075 The annual

Base Pay Range

, dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.

Benefits

may include medical, dental and vision

s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

will be provided during the interview process. We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an Engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment. The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization.