Software Engineer, News Multimodal

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 (https://www.nytimes.com/video/watch) and multimodal user experiences (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-doctorow-wu.html) . You will also build scalable systems-including our core video player (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/magazine/taylor-swift-songwriting-process-interview.html) and automated voice (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/cue-the-record-nyc-vinyl-listening-club.html) 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.

• 2+ years of professional experience building and shipping fullstack user-facing features in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

• Full-stack proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks on both client and server and web fundamentals (e.g. React, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)

• Experience with backend technologies and databases (e.g. GraphQL, SQL), messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis Queues) and cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS)

• Familiarity with troubleshooting and resolving issues in a production environment.

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.

$110,000 - $130,000 USD

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, 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 New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

The mission (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) 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., + Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.