Staff Software Engineer, Web Platforms

About this role

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.
About The Role
NYT Cooking enriches people's lives by making them better cooks. The Cooking team takes great pride in matching the editorial expertise and voice of The Times with superior digital functionality and design. We are a collaborative team that values inclusion, diversity, and personal growth.


As a Staff Software Engineer on the NYT Cooking Web Platforms team, you will lead the web infrastructure that powers one of The Times's most beloved products. You'll work at the intersection of a product team with a deep editorial and consumer focus and a broader NYT engineering organization with shared platforms and standards. That means adapting shared NYT web infrastructure for Cooking's specific needs — recipe experiences, publishing workflows, high-traffic content delivery — while also contributing improvements back upstream that benefit engineering across the company.


Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy for NYT Cooking's web platform, including architecture decisions for performance, reliability, and developer experience across the Cooking web stack.
• Adapt and implement shared NYT web platform tools, libraries, and infrastructure for Cooking's use cases, and contribute improvements back to those shared platforms.
• Partner with Cooking's product, design, data, and editorial teams to translate product goals into sound technical solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship and peer support to engineers on the ...