Job Description
The New York Times is seeking a Back-end Engineer to join the Games Platform team. In this role, you’ll report to the Engineering Manager, Games and join a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to build an API platform that helps to significantly expand The New York Times’ suite of unique and wonderful games. This is an opportunity to make a big impact in a growing team, and you’ll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement.
Don't hesitate if you don't hit everything in this job description. If you’re a good human with related experience, we want to hear from you!
Our tech stack
We generally build APIs in Go, web applications in Node.js, and front-ends in React with accessible, semantic HTML and SCSS. We’re hosted almost entirely on Google Cloud Platform.
You’ll Be An Ideal Candidate If You
- Have 4+ years in engineering, with a focus on back-end development of APIs
- Have worked on a platform that is consumed by other developers
- Desire to be given problems to solve, as opposed to solutions to implement
- Have a track record of mentoring and helping to develop other engineers
- Love collaborating with other engineers as well as designers and product managers
- Have a growth mindset: you embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and are always learning
- Freely give and graciously receive feedback
- Are excited about games, the Games team, and The New York Times
Your Day-to-day Would Include
- Building highly-available APIs in Go for a game platform that serves mobile and web games
- Designing software for maintainability and reuse that directly impacts users
- Writing tests at all levels of the testing pyramid: unit, integration, and end-to-end (e2e) TK
- Focusing on performance and scalability during software design and code construction
- Integrating with other systems at The New York Times and externally
- Data modeling in SQL databases
- Deploying using GAE and GKE
About Games
New York Times Games helps people bring fun, intelligent and rewarding play into their daily lives through an ever-expanding slate of original games, classic puzzles and the iconic New York Times Crossword. The Games team is a subscription-first business that focuses on building through user-centered design. We work in tightly knit groups that include representatives from product and project management, development and design. Through iteration, testing, empathetic research and experimentation, our products constantly evolve, and we strive to provide an extraordinary experience for everyone who interacts with our games.
The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does 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 New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local "Fair Chance" laws.
