Engineering Manager, Community Platform & Engagement

Thenewyorktimes; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Community team within the News Product mission, overseeing reader participation features from backend services to editor tools. This hybrid role is based in New York City, with about two in-office days per week.

You will shape the technical vision, collaborate with product, design and newsroom partners, and drive safety, performance and platform modernization across web and native experiences.

Qualifications

• 2+ years as Engineering Manager leading high-functioning engineering teams.
• Experience managing cross-disciplinary engineers and overseeing mission-critical production operations for user-facing systems.
• Prior experience as a senior or staff-level engineer building and operating backend services and/or native app features in a production environment.
• Experience collaborating with product, design and data partners on roadmap planning and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-platform team of engineers working across backend services, web and native clients that power comments, conversations and other reader engagement experiences.
• Guide the technical vision and roadmap for expanding Community features beyond traditional comments into new formats and surfaces, in partnership with product, design and newsroom partners.
• Oversee the development of high-availability backend services alongside the internal tools and UIs that moderators, editors and product teams use to manage reader participation.
• Ensure the reliability, performance and safety of Community systems, including incident response, post-incident reviews and follow-up work for highly visible reader experiences.
• Partner with Product, Design and Data counterparts to prioritize investments that balance immediate operational needs with longer-term platform modernization and experimentation.
• Contribute to the broader News Product mission by leading cross-team technical or cultural programs and represent the Community team in high-level technical discussions.

Skills

Engineering Management

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmap planning

Product/design/data collaboration

Tools

React

Node.js

Golang

AWS

GCP

Mobile frameworks

Job description

The New York Times is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Community team within the News Product mission, overseeing reader participation features from backend services to editor tools. This hybrid role is based in New York City, with about two in-office days per week.

You will shape the technical vision, collaborate with product, design and newsroom partners, and drive safety, performance and platform modernization across web and native experiences.