thenewyorktimes

Software Engineer, News Multimodal

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At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Work Regime
hybrid
Experience
2+ years
Posted
2026-05-14T09:18:44-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSCI/CDDevOpsGCPJavaScriptJenkinsKafkaNode.jsReactRedisSQLTypeScript

Domain Knowledge

  • Cloud
  • Finance
  • Media
  • Medical

Requirements

2+ years of professional experience building and shipping fullstack user-facing features in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Full-stack proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server and web fundamentals (e.g.

React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)

Experience with backend technologies and databases (e.g.

GraphQL, SQL), messaging systems (e.g.  Kafka, Redis Queues) and cloud infrastructure (e.g.

Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will develop our audio and video features into a truly multimodal experience, shaping how tens of millions of people watch, listen to, and engage with our journalism every day.

You’ll work with engineers, designers, and product managers to build

immersive frontend formats

multimodal user experiences

You will also build scalable systems—including our

services—and the essential programming tools our editors use to publish multimodal coverage across all platforms.