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New York Times Director of Engineering, Games Platform in New York, New York
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.
About the Role
The New York Times is looking for a Director of Engineering in the Games Mission to lead the platform engineering behind the Games offered by The New York Times.
You will report to the Head of Engineering for the Games Mission, working with partners in Product, Production, Design, and Data to help our Engineering team develop mobile, web and backend platforms in order accelerate product development across all our Games.
We have declared ourselves a subscription-first company, staking our future on delivering products that are worth paying for and are unparalleled in its quality and consumer delight. Games are playing an important role towards our vision and we aim to be the premier subscription destination for digital puzzles. This is an important role to help build high quality platforms to bring consistency and technology excellence across all our Games.
We generally build APIs in Go on AWS, iOS apps in Swift, Android apps in Kotlin and web front-ends in React.
Responsibilities:
Manage multiple teams of engineers to deliver the platform technical roadmap while assuring quality and reusability of engineering capability to build products
Create a line of sight to aims and goals of the Games mission, ensuring that staff understand their purpose and deliverables.
Coordinate with other technology teams to create the right solutions, manage expectations, and keep strategies aligned
Coach and develop engineers and engineering managers
Create an inclusive team culture, recruit for, and retain extraordinary engineering talent
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence (https://www.nytco.com/company/mission-and-values/) and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
Basic Qualifications:
2+ years of experience as a Director of Engineering
2+ years of experience managing managers
Experience running platforms at scale supporting consumer product development across web and mobile surfaces
Strategic technical leadership experience and demonstrated understanding of how it connects to outcomes
Experience working in complex product organizations, supporting stakeholders with diverse and sometimes conflicting technical and product requirements
Expertise in creating healthy feedback environments
Preferred Qualifications:
7+ years of individual contributor experience either as a web or app developer
Exposure to building and deploying high-traffic systems in cloud environments (preferably AWS)
Engineering experience in the gaming industry
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$196,000 — $205,000 USD
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