Senior Software Engineer, Subscription Platforms
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.
Mission Overview & Responsibilities:
The Subscription Platform Group develops the core backend services for the New York Times’ digital and home delivery subscriptions. It includes billing, payment processing and subscription management systems. This team has enabled The New York Times to grow to over 9 million subscribers. Our new goal is to reach 17 million subscribers by 2027. We're engaged in several projects to break down monolithic applications into microservices. In doing so, we need engineers with experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
Responsibilities:
- You will Develop the next generation of our subscription platform to ensure NYT's growth goals.
- Work with your team to build resilient systems that can scale.
- Incorporate telemetry and observability in our platform to allow operational efficiency.
- Identify security problems and improve the security aspects of our services.
- Develop processes for automating, testing, and deploying your work.
- Mentor the next generation of engineers at the NYT.
- Contribute to our mission of reaching 17+ million subscribers by 2027.
- You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, SPG
Basic Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience working with subscriptions/ecommerce systems.
- 4 + Years of experience with object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Go, TypeScript, Python.
- 4+ years of experience with system design and architecture with an emphasis on building distributed systems at scale.
- 4+ years of Years experience with public cloud platform services: Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building microservices or distributed cloud-based software systems with an emphasis on fault tolerance,, observability, and operability.
- Experience data modeling and working with transactional data using both SQL-based and NoSQL database systems.
- Experience building and integrating GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Experience of working with Project Management, Product Management and other professionals within your team and across the organization.
This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email [email protected]. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.
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Date Posted
11/06/2023
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