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About the Role
The New York Times is looking for a full stack Software Engineer to join the NYT Cooking's Publishing team. NYT Cooking helps you discover and cook the world’s best recipes. The NYT Cooking team is tight knit and interdisciplinary — we collaborate with our design, data, product, and editorial partners to develop new features for both our responsive website and mobile apps. We are made up of small, focused groups tasked with building great cooking experiences on a variety of devices and platforms, including web, iOS and Android. You will report to the Engineering Manager of Cooking's Publishing team. You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Cooking Publishing team.
Responsibilities:
- You’ll work on our editorial tooling, creating software that supports our editors and eventually Cooking’s end users.
- You’ll work with product, design, data, and editorial partners to better the Cooking publishing platform and make it easier for editors to create content and users to find our recipes and cook with us more often.
- Your work will allow editors to develop their content more quickly and easily through tooling like a new Recipe Editor.
- You will help us build a technical vision based on evaluating existing technologies, partnering with product, design and other publishing-focused teams within the company, and using out-of-the-box software built for publishing teams across the Times.
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience building and maintaining modern web applications.
- Experience with Typescript or Javascript and React/Next.js.
- An understanding of internal tooling systems and how to support their users.
- Experience troubleshooting systems using tools such as DataDog, Sentry or similar.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Some experience with GraphQL.
- Some experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP or other cloud provider products and services.
- Familiarity with Docker or similar containerization service.
- Database experience, particularly using PostgreSQL.
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 annual base pay range for this role is between:
$104,000—$130,000 USD
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