# Senior Software Engineer, NYT Cooking

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c0609db3-f946-4af2-90ee-f36b5d8c1489

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

This role builds backend systems and APIs powering NYT Cooking's recipe features, including AI-driven personalization and search, serving millions of users across web and mobile platforms. It suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with distributed systems, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure who want to work on a consumer product at scale.

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

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Docker, Elasticsearch, GitHub Actions, Go, GraphQL, Java, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Retrofit (REST), Ruby, Sentry, Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 5+ years designing and implementing scalable APIs and backend services using GraphQL and REST
- 5+ years developing backend systems in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Java
- 5+ years working with SQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization
- 3+ years with distributed systems and search technologies like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
- 3+ years with cloud infrastructure platforms like AWS or GCP and containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience leading projects through full software development lifecycle and mentoring engineers

## Nice to have

- Experience with GraphQL federation and building scalable subgraphs
- Experience with search and recommendation technologies, Elasticsearch relevance tuning, and ML/LLM-driven features
- Strong experience with Go and/or Ruby on Rails for API-driven services
- Experience with infrastructure tooling including Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and LLM evaluation tools like Braintrust

Apply on The New York Times Company's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorktimes/jobs/4696585005