Software Engineer, News Multimodal

thenewyorktimes

New York, NY · New York · United States

Posted May 14, 2026

Other
Hybrid
Software Engineering

Job description

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, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times is hiring a full-stack Software Engineer for the News Product Multimodal team. In this role, you will develop our audio and video features into a truly multimodal experience, shaping how tens of millions of people watch, listen to, and engage with our journalism every day.

You’ll work with engineers, designers, and product managers to build immersive frontend formats and multimodal user experiences. You will also build scalable systems—including our core video player and automated voice services—and the essential programming tools our editors use to publish multimodal coverage across all platforms.

We are looking for a candidate with a product-engineering mindset who is passionate about shaping thoughtful, world-class user experiences across all our platforms.

The primary technologies used on our team include React, Preact, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis Queues, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.

You'll report to the Senior Engineering Manager for News Multimodal.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and delivery of multimodal features and newsroom programming tools from technical design to production operation.
Build frontend solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable across browsers and platforms.
Build robust backend services to support high-scale media workflows.
Proactively improve the quality of our systems and resolve issues, using engineering mindset and data-driven approaches.
Contribute to technical design discussions, aligning engineering considerations behind product and newsroom objectives.
Provide production support and join our on-call rotations for our reader-facing experiences and newsroom tooling.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications

2+ years of professional experience building and delivering user-facing features in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
Demonstrated ownership of a user-facing feature (or a clearly defined portion of a larger feature), taking it from implementation through launch while partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering.
Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to solve user problems and deliver high-quality web product experiences.
Full-stack proficiency with modern JavaScript technologies including React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Experience building backend services and working with technologies such as GraphQL, SQL, Kafka, Redis Queues, and cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving issues in production environments.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and proactively unblock technical challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building web-based audio or video experiences, including browser media APIs, streaming, and playback performance.
Familiarity with audio workflows such as text-to-speech or automated voice generation.
Familiarity with the web media ecosystem (players, encoding, streaming, accessibility, analytics).
Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD techniques and tooling (e.g. Drone, Jenkins), automated testing and deployments, observability and monitoring.

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.

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Additional Compensation and Benefits:

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$110,000—$130,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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