The New York Times

Journalism

SeniorFullStackEngineer,GamesWebPlatformTeam

$140–160k Chicago, United States Remote Friendly
The Brief

“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.

Journalism
Eligibility Requirements

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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