The New York Times' Growth mission works to accelerate its subscription business to secure its position as the most successful journalistic institution in the world. The Meter Team focuses on the paywall subscription business by building the suite of services responsible for managing access and metering content across The New York Times portfolio of products, powering the access model that converts readers into paying subscribers.
Requirements
- 1 year of experience writing production-grade code in Go or another backend language including unit and integration tests
- 1 year of experience building secure, scalable, resilient and observable distributed systems on a cloud platform like AWS or GCP.
- 1 year of experience with version control systems like GitHub / GitLab
- 1 year of experience working with SQL
- Experience with Javascript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks like React
- Experience using GenAI tools in your development workflow
- Experience operating production systems using Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Build reliable, secure and scalable distributed backend services using Go.
- Collaborate with product, data analysts and engineers to design and implement new access capabilities across the NYT portfolio of products.
- Participate in design and code reviews.
- Work limited on-call hours on the team. On call responsibilities are shared with other engineers on the team
Other
- This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Meter. You will be expected to come into the office at least two days per week.
- 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.
- 1 year of experience working collaboratively within a cross-functional team.
