Senior Software Engineer, Content Data Products

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

The New York Times is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Content Data Products team. You will report to the Engineering Director, Publishing and work with a team of engineers, product and project managers, data scientists, and newsroom stakeholders to build systems that turn NYT's archive of publishing content into data products. These tools will be used by internal teams and external partners who wish to derive insights from or build experiences based on NYT content.

The Content Data Products team sits within the Publishing group at the New York Times, which is responsible for the content management system for all of the Times. It empowers development teams to build and evolve innovative experiences with speed and agility, and provides editors and creators with a unified and interconnected suite of tools they can use with confidence to make the world's best journalism.

This is a hybrid position based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, design, other engineers, and newsroom partners to build content data products and APIs within the NYT's publishing platform, including internal data solutions and external offerings

• Take ownership of significant features or components, driving them from requirements gathering through design, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring

• Use AI to process our archive and turn unstructured data into structured data, while developing a deep understanding of what we're building and how to use it

• Ensure a high degree of code quality, security, and system observability

• Review code written by other software engineers on the team and provide feedback

• Contribute to and advocate for robust testing strategies to ensure service reliability

• Be a mentor to other software engineers to enable their growth

• 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 software engineering experience

• Full stack engineering experience: Either fluency in backend technologies (Go, Python, Java, Scala or similar) and SQL databases, with front end familiarity (ideally Javascript). Or fluency in Javascript and deep understanding of modern JS ecosystem (e.g. ES6+, Typescript, Node.js, React) and familiarity with backend technologies

• Experience building data products or APIs with an understanding of data concepts, including data modeling, data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, data feeds, and data architecture

• Demonstrated familiarity or experience with AI/ML

• Understanding of application and data security best practices

• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively as a part of a cross-functional team

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Content Management Systems

• Experience with metadata and tagging

• Familiarity with extracting and/or digitizing content from multiple sources

• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like GCP or AWS

 

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$140,000—$155,000 USD

 

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