Backend Software Engineer at The New York Times

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🇺🇸Remote work is possible, see the description below for more information.Every day, journalists at The New York Times report more than 200 stories from dozens of countries around the world on topics ranging from major international events to the best way to roast a chicken. Those stories are read, listened to, and watched by more than 100 million digital readers each month across our web and mobile products.All engineers at The New York Times take great pride in building products that live up to the quality and reputation of our journalism. We are looking for backend engineers on a variety of teams to join our organization in impactful, hands-on roles. We value transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement. Check out some of our Times Open blog posts, written by engineers and other technical team members: on working remotely, on developing your career, and working with next gen technology. Follow us @nytdevs on Twitter to see what we’re up to and come be a part of the digital revolution of a 168-year-old institution with a “mission worth believing in.”You will:Contribute to technical discussions to gather requirements and develop product features or solutions while maintaining standard methodologiesResearch and document proposed solutionsBuild, maintain, and debug server-side applications and toolingWrite unit and integration testsDevelop processes for automating, testing, and deploying your workCollaborate with Project Management and Product Management and other professionals within your team and across the organizationContribute to our mission of reaching 10+ million paid subscriptions by 2025For this role, you should:Have empathy for existing solutions and issuesHave pride in your workBe able to work in a collegial environment with peers from diverse backgrounds and skillsBe a committed bug hunterEnjoy commenting your codeYou should apply if you:Have programming and syntax knowledge in Go, Python, Java (7+), Scala, or other similar backend programming languagesUnderstand data modeling in both SQL based and NoSQL database systemsUnderstand version control using Git and Github.comAnd you have experience or interest in learning:System design and architecture, with an emphasis on building for scaleDocker/KubernetesPublic cloud platform services: Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques and toolingMulti-tier application architecture & concepts of networking, load balancing, monitoring and *nix OSSome of the teams hiring are:PublishingThe ideal browser-based interface for ensuring creative collaboration in reporting, conceiving, editing and publishing content of the future doesn’t yet exist. We’re making it, and we’re looking for people to join us.Delivery EngineeringJoin the team that builds developer tools to empower engineering teams to deliver applications fasterThe Subscription Platform GroupSubscription Platforms works on our e-commerce platforms, anything related to subscriptions, billing and payments for our digital and home delivery subscribers.Data EngineeringWe focus on the software engineering related to data replication, storage, centralized computation, and data API’s. We provide customers and partners with data tools, shared frameworks, and data services. We support key business goals like growing our digital subscriber base, understanding how our customers use our products, and retaining our print subscribers.Reader EngagementThis team supports two newsroom systems critical for breaking news alerts and reader engagement. We are creating new interfaces for editors to send alerts and push notifications to millions of devices and we support all newsroom generated newsletters which are key tools in reaching new users and bringing top-notch personalized content to readers. Join our team in pushing forward the launch of new systems and experiences!CultureWe’ve won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other organization (including three in 2018), and you will help power, distribute and expand what is possible for our award-winning journalism.We believe diversity fuels innovation and creativity, and we have a variety of employee groups dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.We are a New York-based engineering organization with a remote-friendly workplace that includes engineers around the world.We are committed to career development and have a formal mentoring program. We encourage our engineers to participate in conferences and we frequently host talks by industry leaders. Recently, we’ve had Sheryl Sandberg, Melinda Gates and Ta-Nehisi Coates.Every person within the tech organization is expected to spend five full days focusing on learning. We have a generous tuition reimbursement program and you can use this time on career-relevant activities like attending formal classes, internal company training, online training, a self-developed learning program and have the opportunity to teach others.We run a Maker Week event twice a year, where Design, Product, Project, Marketing and Technology come together to work on compelling, creative, multi-functional projects.Benefits and Perks:Make an impact by supporting our original, independent and deeply reported journalism.We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their familiesWe support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.We offer a competitive parental leave.We are committed to career development and ongoing learning supported by a formal mentoring program as well as $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.