Senior Software Engineer, Messaging Platforms - Frontend

$140,000 - $155,000/Yr

Aspen Tech Labs - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - New York, NY

About the position

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Front End Developer to join the Messaging UI team within the Messaging Platforms group. This role focuses on enhancing customer acquisition, engagement, and reader loyalty by modernizing and expanding front-end tools for internal newsroom users. The position involves collaboration with engineers, designers, and product managers, emphasizing values such as empathy, collaboration, transparency, diversity, and learning.

Responsibilities

• Help lead in the effort to modernize and expand existing front-end tools to support messaging-related workflows for internal newsroom users.
• Provide front-end expertise, coaching, and support to a growing team.
• Develop in an environment that uses React and Redux for front-end development and Go for the backend.
• Contribute to the full development lifecycle of products, including design, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to the mission of seeking the truth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with modern frontend web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, web performance, accessibility) and best practices.
• Expertise with one or more front-end frameworks (React preferred) and general patterns and practices related to these technologies (Redux, CSS modules, etc).
• Experience with JS build tooling such as yarn, pnpm, turborepo, lerna, nx, webpack, or babel.
• Experience with Node.js and GraphQL.
• 2+ years of experience in full stack web application development, including proficiency with back-end languages (Go preferred) and SQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD systems such as Drone or Jenkins.
• Experience building, operating, and monitoring web systems in GCP or AWS.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $140,000-$155,000 USD.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workforce.
• Equal Opportunity Employer policies.
• Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees.