The New York Times is looking to advance its newsroom's video goals and shape audience experiences for video across all platforms by hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Storytelling Video team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) and web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web performance, accessibility)
- 3+ years of full-stack development experience, including backend languages (Node.js, Java), persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining user-facing experiences
- Experience leading technical projects and driving architectural decisions
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment
- Experience with web video handling, including browser video APIs, streaming protocols, performance optimization, playback reliability, and using analytics to guide technical strategy
- Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of video initiatives from technical design through production operation.
- Architect and build frontend solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable across browsers and platforms.
- Develop technical strategies for video that scale across use cases, using data to inform architectural decisions.
- Improve video playback performance and reliability with rigorous engineering mindset.
- Align technical decisions behind product and newsroom objectives using a product engineering mindset.
- Reliably resolve urgent or complex issues, triaging effectively and identifying long-term improvements.
- Collaborate across the wider organization to drive end-to-end video delivery improvements.
Other
- Partner with Product and Design colleagues and fellow engineers to design scalable, sustainable systems
- Mentor other engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across the organization to guide our video strategy forward.
- 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.
- This role will require limited on-call hours.
- The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism.
