# Senior Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [The New York Times Company](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/the-new-york-times-company)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6d65b807-ed1d-4888-8e0d-9c5ded681611

Listed on The New York Times Company's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 140000 – 160000 USD per year

## Summary

A backend engineer role on the New York Times' personalization team, building systems that help readers discover journalism. Suited to experienced engineers comfortable with Go, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure who want to work on a consumer-facing platform at scale.

_Our summary, not The New York Times Company's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD, Contract Express, Docker, DynamoDB, Go, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Node.js, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Retrofit (REST), Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 5+ years building and optimizing scalable backend and API-driven services for web and mobile applications using REST or GraphQL
- 5+ years developing backend systems using Go, TypeScript, or Node.js
- 5+ years with SQL databases including data modeling and query performance optimization, plus NoSQL familiarity
- 3+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP with containerized environments, infrastructure as code, managed databases, networking, and storage
- Proficiency with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and feature flag deployments
- Experience leading projects through the full software development lifecycle and mentoring engineers

## Nice to have

- Experience with GraphQL federation and building scalable subgraphs in distributed architectures
- History of collaborating with product, design, and data teams
- Ability to contribute to system design and architecture across multiple services
- Experience shaping team processes, documentation, and engineering culture

Apply on The New York Times Company's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorktimes/jobs/4712623005