Software Engineer, Backend, Games Developer

15 hours ago

New York, New York, United States New York Times Full time

The New York Times is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer, Backend to join our team of engineers and collaborate with Product, Design and Producers to develop an innovative puzzle game experience.

We are a collaborative team that values inclusion, diversity and personal growth. Our team combines product development with a world-class suite of puzzles including beloved titles such as the NYT Crossword, Spelling Bee, Connections and Wordle.

Come help us expand our portfolio of Games with social play, as we continue delivering delightful experiences to millions daily.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.

We build APIs in Go on AWS and GCP, iOS apps in Swift, Android apps in Kotlin and web front-ends in Typescript and React.

We solve for the world of today with room to evolve for the future needs for the business. We consider quality, observability, scalability and security as first-class citizens in our code.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing APIs and solving complex technical problems scaling to tens of thousands of requests per second.

They will collaborate with partners from different backgrounds such as Mobile Engineers, QA Engineers, Designers and Product Managers.

The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience writing performant server-side code in an object-oriented language, 1+ year of experience writing code in Go professionally or for personal projects, and 2+ years of experience designing system architecture and implementing and monitoring cloud infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications include 1+ years of experience building backend systems that power native mobile frontends, 1+ years of experience working with AWS technologies, and 1+ years of experience building backends for Games for millions of players.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve.

Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization.

Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business.

So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.

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