Senior Backend Engineer — Scale APIs & Personalization

The New York Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Paid vacation and sick days

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Reflections team in New York. You will help personalize the Times experience by building scalable backend and API services for web and mobile.

Join a cross-functional group of engineers, product managers, designers and data experts to design, implement, and operate modern systems with Go, TypeScript, Node.js/Express and GraphQL. Hybrid work, on-site NYC HQ.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and optimizing scalable backend and API‑driven services for web and mobile applications using REST or GraphQL.
• 5+ years of experience developing backend systems using modern programming languages such as Go, TypeScript/Node.js.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), including data modeling and query performance optimization, plus familiarity with NoSQL technologies (e.g., DynamoDB).
• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP, including containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), managed databases, networking, and storage services.
• Demonstrated proficiency with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and feature flag deployments.
• Experience leading projects through the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Work with design, product, web/backend and native mobile engineers to refine and develop new features.
• Build systems in modern technologies including Go, TypeScript, Node.js/Express, GraphQL and write high-quality code with best practices in mind.
• Contribute ideas that shape the direction of our products and in taking on work that is meaningful to you.
• Participate in technical discussions with native mobile, web, backend engineers and other owners of internal/external dependencies.
• Work with all parts of the stack and learn new skills.
• Provide production support by participating in on‑call rotations for the systems and tools we build.
• Contribute to iteration on internal team processes and norms.
• 5+ years of experience building and optimizing scalable backend and API‑driven services for web and mobile applications using REST or GraphQL.
• 5+ years of experience developing backend systems using modern programming languages such as Go, TypeScript/Node.js.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), including data modeling and query performance optimization, plus familiarity with NoSQL technologies (e.g., DynamoDB).
• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP, including containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), managed databases, networking, and storage services.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Node.js/Express

GraphQL

REST APIs

SQL databases

PostgreSQL

NoSQL (DynamoDB)

AWS or GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD

Automated testing

Observability/Monitoring

Code reviews/mentoring

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Node.js/Express

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Reflections team in New York. You will help personalize the Times experience by building scalable backend and API services for web and mobile.

Join a cross-functional group of engineers, product managers, designers and data experts to design, implement, and operate modern systems with Go, TypeScript, Node.js/Express and GraphQL. Hybrid work, on-site NYC HQ.