The New York Times
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SeniorFullStackEngineer,GamesWebPlatformTeam
“Senior Full Stack Engineer, Games Web Platform Team at The New York Times. Skills: Full-stack development, Go, AWS, React. Develop foundational web infrastructure. Develop new puzzle capabilities”
Industry & Context.
limited on-call hours
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, JavaScript (ES6+), semantic HTML, CSS/SCSS, React (or a similar modern framework), Experience building shared component libraries, Go, Java, Python, AWS (or GCP), Docker, Fastly, Product, Design, and Editorial teams
Nice to Have
Prior experience in the gaming industry, web-based games, puzzles, interactive media, CI/CD automation, GitHub Actions, Drone, Terraform, DevOps approach, monitoring and observability tools, Datadog, Sentry, Grafana
What You'll Do.
Develop foundational web infrastructure
Develop new puzzle capabilities
Collaborate with partners
Champion operational and tech excellence
Participate in code reviews
Define best practices
Contribute to engineering community
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and Production; Work with partners like Product, Design, and Editorial teams
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