About the position
The Starter Kit team is dedicated to building intuitive and efficient interfaces for the new Scoop Publishing Platform which will enable our newsrooms to provide the best news coverage across the bundle. Keeping both our newsroom and technology users top of mind, our engineers work closely with our product and design partners to ensure functional needs are met across a variety of workflows while maintaining a library of features that can be customized and built upon by any product team. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in stateful interactive applications with both frontend UI/UX and backend APIs to join our team and both lead and work on challenging problems to bring the new publishing platform to all New York Times newsrooms. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Starter Kit.
Responsibilities
- Build features for the Starter Kit platform that satisfy user workflows and provide a great developer experience for product teams.
- Write, test, debug, and deploy code across a variety of languages and frameworks primarily in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Go.
- Work with the team to build components and systems that are highly scalable and fault tolerant.
- Collaborate with Product and Design partners to translate requirements and mock ups into engineering tickets.
- Grow the skills of colleagues through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience working with technologies such as React, GraphQL, and DOM libraries
- 5+ years of full stack software development experience with demonstrated front end expertise
- Knowledge of software principles, application architecture, data structures, coding conventions, testing frameworks and security best practices
- Experience collaborating with cross functional partners as well as other engineering teams
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with collaborative editing (OT, CRDT, ProseMirror)
- Experience with backend technologies and APIs in languages such as Go and Node
Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- paid_holidays
- flexible_scheduling
- professional_development