About the Role
The Reflections team at The New York Times is looking for a Backend Software Engineer. You will be part of a diverse team that includes native mobile engineers, web/backend engineers, QA, product managers, designers and data experts.
The Reflections team focuses on personalizing the Times experience, making it feel "yours." We aim to help users effortlessly discover and regularly engage with the journalism they value most, strengthening. and deepening their relationship with the Times.
This role is hybrid, located at our New York City headquarters, and typically requires coming into the office two days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with design, product, web, backend, and native mobile engineers to refine requirements and develop new features across our platform.
- Design, build, and maintain backend services primarily in Go (Golang), developing scalable REST or GraphQL APIs and writing high-quality, production-ready code following engineering best practices.
- Develop and improve Go-based services and microservices, integrating with databases, internal systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute ideas that help shape the direction of our products and actively participate in solving meaningful technical challenges.
- Participate in technical discussions and architecture decisions with native mobile, web, and backend engineers, as well as owners of internal and external dependencies.
- Work across multiple parts of the stack when needed while maintaining a strong focus on backend service development in Go.
- Provide production support by participating in on-call rotations for the services and systems we build.
- Contribute to iteration on internal team processes and norms.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- You will report to the Engineering Manager
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of full-time experience developing backend APIs using Go (Golang), including building REST or GraphQL services in production environments. Experience with additional backend technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, or Express is a plus.
- 3+ years of experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB, including designing schemas, writing queries, and integrating data storage with backend services.
- 3+ years of experience building and deploying services on public cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience working in Agile software development environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams through iterative development, testing, and release cycles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with GraphQL.
- Familiarity with containers and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker.
- Familiarity with CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Jenkins, drone), automated testing and deployments, and other DevOps practices.
- Understanding of caching and content delivery.
This role will require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables. This role also requires availability to our core working hours which are 10am - 6pm ET.
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