thenewyorktimes
Software Engineer, News Multimodal
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
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.