Senior Software Engineer, Storytelling Video New York, NY Job at The New York Ti

Senior Software Engineer, Storytelling Video Frontend

New York, NY

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 hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Storytelling Video team, where you will shape our audience experiences video across all our platforms and advance the newsroom\'s video goals.

You will lead the definition and execution of major components in our next-generation strategy for News Video. You will partner with Product and Design colleagues and fellow engineers to design scalable, sustainable systems, which include the foundational components of our video player, and innovative, reader-facing video formats that tell impactful stories.

We will look to you to bring expertise in web technologies, experience solving complex problems, and a product-engineering mindset to deliver a world class user experience. You will not only write code but also mentor other engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across the organization to guide our video strategy forward. You will report to the Engineering Manager, Storytelling Video.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of video initiatives from technical design through production operation.
• Develop technical strategies for video that scale across use cases, using data to inform architectural decisions.
• Improve video playback performance and reliability with rigorous engineering mindset.
• Align technical decisions behind product and newsroom objectives using a product engineering mindset.
• Reliably resolve urgent or complex issues, triaging effectively and identifying long-term improvements.
• Collaborate across the wider organization to drive end-to-end video delivery improvements.
• 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

• 3+ years of full-stack development experience, including backend languages (Node.js, Java), persistence technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining user-facing experiences
• Experience leading technical projects and driving architectural decisions
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating video into multimedia experiences
• Familiarity with the wider web video ecosystem, including CDNs and video infrastructure
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring

This role will require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

Compensation

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

Equal Opportunity

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, or other legally protected characteristics. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.