Senior Engineer - Web Platforms

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote work

401(k) plan with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platforms team to enhance the platform powering web and mobile app webviews. You’ll improve developer experience, performance, and resiliency using React, Node, TypeScript, and GraphQL, while collaborating across product teams.

You will report to the Engineering Manager Web Frameworks and contribute to platform tooling, documentation, and incident response with a commitment to journalistic independence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack web development with modern JS/TS
• Experience with React, Vite and GraphQL
• CI/CD and automation for developer workflows
• Experience designing, implementing, testing and documenting projects
• Experience with GenAI tooling and agentic workflows
• Experience leading complex initiatives

Responsibilities

• Develop platform for reliability, scalability and performance
• Promote high-quality releases for UX and web performance
• Collaborate to shape priorities and long-term roadmap
• Provide feedback via pairing, design reviews and code reviews
• Support on-call, incident response and troubleshooting
• Partner with teams on technical discussions and documentation
• Reinforce journalistic independence and mission alignment

Skills

Full-stack web development

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Vite

TanStack Start

Monorepo tooling

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Code reviews & pairing

GenAI tooling

API design & docs

Platform teams experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Vite

GraphQL tooling

Job description

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.

About The Role, Mission Or Department Overview

The New York Times is searching for a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platforms team to help us grow the platform that powers the presentation of content for web and mobile app webviews. We are accountable for improving the developer experience, performance, and resiliency of our web applications. Our primary technologies include React, Node, TypeScript, and GraphQL. We're looking for someone who values collaboration and learning with an interest in building web tooling for engineers across multiple product feature teams.

You will report to our Engineering Manager Web Frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop our platform while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as it grows.
• Promote high-quality releases regarding user experience and web performance.
• Collaborate with the team to shape our priorities and long-term roadmap.
• Deliver clear feedback through pairing, design review, and code reviews.
• Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting efforts for platform-level escalations.
• Partner with teams by participating in technical discussions, writing technical documentation, and troubleshooting issues.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack web development experience with the modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem, including application build tools, monorepo tooling and practices, and frontend frameworks (we use React, Vite, and TanStack Start).
• Experience building centralized systems for internal engineering teams.
• Familiarity with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing and documenting projects.
• Experience with GenAI tooling such as skills creation or agentic workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (we use GitHub actions).
• Experience leading complex initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using client-side GraphQL tooling and applying GraphQL best practices, including data fetching, caching, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Experience working on a platform team, building and supporting shared tools, frameworks, or services used by multiple product teams.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt evolving web standards and industry practices across frontend tooling, JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Compensation And Benefits For This Role

• In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
• Benefits 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.
• The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 - $160,000 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email [e-mail]. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.