Hybrid Games Platform Engineer (React/TS, Node, Go)

The New York Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)

Company-matching 401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

Job summary

The New York Times Games team is seeking a Software Engineer to build frontend features with React/TypeScript and backend services in Node.js and Go, running on AWS.

You will contribute to monetization efforts, collaborate across teams, and participate in full development lifecycle, including testing, observability, and on-call rotations, with a hybrid NYC-based role reporting to the Engineering Manager, Games CASH squad.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of full-time software engineering experience building user-facing features in large-scale web applications using TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
• Experience in version control tools (Git, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Familiarity with server-side web development (Node.js, Go, or similar) or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test entry points across NYT surfaces (web and mobile) using React, TypeScript, and modern HTML/CSS to help players see the value of a Games subscription and become subscribers.
• Collaborate with partner teams to monetize games through subscriptions, including running Games Sales and iterating the marketing landing page.
• Participate in the full development lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, code review, testing, and release.
• Instrument features for observability and experimentation with analytics and product partners to define success metrics.
• Debug and resolve issues in frontend code, Node.js services, and supporting infrastructure.
• Help improve frontend architecture, shared components, and developer tooling.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you help build.
• Demonstrate support for journalistic independence and our mission to seek the truth.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend web development

Node.js

Go

AWS

Testing

Collaboration

Documentation

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

HTML/CSS

APIs

Job description

The New York Times Games team is seeking a Software Engineer to build frontend features with React/TypeScript and backend services in Node.js and Go, running on AWS.

You will contribute to monetization efforts, collaborate across teams, and participate in full development lifecycle, including testing, observability, and on-call rotations, with a hybrid NYC-based role reporting to the Engineering Manager, Games CASH squad.