Front-End Web Engineer - T Brand

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 89 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

Restricted stock

401(k) plan

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Paid vacation and leave

Résumé du poste

The New York Times Company is seeking a junior front-end web engineer to contribute to our Studio team in New York City. You’ll build features using React and Astro, create engaging animations with GSAP, and collaborate across Design, Product, and Editorial to translate creative mockups into functional web experiences.

You’ll work with mentors and senior engineers, participate in code reviews, and help improve front-end templates for advertising products while contributing to the broader modern

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in front-end web development.
• Familiarity with Astro and Svelte frameworks.
• Proficient with Git version control and debugging.
• Strong communication and collaboration with designers and PMs.

Responsabilités

• Build features using modern technologies, and frameworks (e.g., React, Astro).
• Create fluid animations and interactive visuals with CSS and GSAP.
• Implement front-end development for web products including ads templates and SPAs.
• Participate in regular code reviews and apply team design principles.
• Receive mentorship from senior engineers and leads, contributing to growth.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, and Editorial to translate mockups into experiences.
• Help resolve technical debt, fix bugs, and maintain project documentation (Jira).
• Integrate GenAI tools and modern dev tools to improve code production.
• Follow GitHub workflows and branching strategies for collaboration.

Connaissances

Front-end development

Outils

React

Astro

Svelte

Git

GSAP

Description du poste

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

T Brand is a growing team of editors, designers, strategists, and more who create branded content across the gamut of The New York Times's advertisers. Our work takes many forms — reported articles, documentary videos, animations, photo essays, social posts, podcasts, interactive data visualizations, event activations and Newsroom sponsorships.

The Studio is looking for a junior web engineer. As a Front-End Web Engineer, you will contribute to the development of our front-end products, including Paid Posts, the Flex Suite, and custom interactive applications. Working with senior engineers and your manager, you will implement responsive features, building modular components, and writing clean, maintainable, readable, and reusable code across our advertising templates. You will collaborate with the broader creative team, participates in code reviews, and grows their technical skillset across our modern front-end stack.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City Headquarters. You will report to the Director of Design.

Responsibilities:

• Build features using modern technologies, and frameworks (e.g., React, Astro) to support product capabilities and performance.


• Create fluid animations and interactive visual elements using CSS and web animation libraries (such as GreenSock/GSAP).


• Implement front-end development for web products, including advertising templates and interactive single-page applications under technical guidance.


• Participate in regular code reviews, receiving constructive feedback and applying team design principles to improve code quality.


• Receive mentorship from Web Engineers, Senior Web Engineers, and Lead Engineers, participating in team learning projects and technical growth.


• Collaborate with partners (Design, Product, and Editorial) to translate creative mockups and requirements into functional web experiences.


• Help resolve technical debt, fix bugs, and maintain clear project documentation and detailed work tickets (e.g., in Jira).


• Integrate AI-assisted workflows and modern developer tools to improve code production, improve, and boost development efficiency.


• Implement best practices in version control using Git and GitHub, managing repositories, branching strategies, and collaborative code reviews.


• You will report to the Director of Design.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in front-end web development.


• Familiarity or eagerness to learn modern front-end frameworks, specifically Astro and Svelte.


• Basic familiarity with version control workflows using Git.


• Careful eye for detail when debugging and troubleshooting front-end code.


• Clear communication, excellent interpersonal skills, with a collaborative mindset when working with designers and project managers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to web animation libraries like GreenSock (GSAP) or CSS animation techniques.


• Exposure to Google Ad Manager (GAM) or ad technology integration patterns.

Applications without a digital portfolio will not be considered.

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Additional Compensation and Benefits:

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$89,000 - $120,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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