Software Engineer, Games - Full Stack
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 with full stack skills to join the Gameplay squad within the Games team. You’ll join a team of engineers, designers, and product managers to help create incredible, immersive gaming experiences across The New York Time’s suite of unique games. You’ll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement.
Your work will include development of the next generation of software products to expand and strenghten the tech behind our existing Games. You’ll work with engineers in the platform group to leverage the technology provided by them. You will also work closely with cross functional partners from Product, Design and Production.
We generally build APIs in Go, web applications in Node.js, and front-ends in React with accessible, semantic HTML and SCSS. We’re hosted almost entirely on Google Cloud Platform and will eventually move to AWS.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of full-time software engineering experience building features in large scale distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability writing performant server-side code with any of: Go, Java, Python
- Experience building systems using cloud infrastructure, including databases, queues, caching layers, container runtimes, content distribution, and more
- Experience in frontend web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web performance, accessibility)
- Familiarity with one or more frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior engineering experience in gaming industry
- Demonstrated interest in working alongside an accomplished team of engineer for a mission-driven organization like The New York Times
- Ability to embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and share learnings with others
- Experience keeping end user satisfaction as top priority
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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, and will 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
09/06/2023
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