The Web Platforms team owns the ecosystem that powers the presentation of news content for www.nytimes.com and related mobile app webviews. We are accountable for improving the developer experience, performance, and resiliency of our web applications. Our primary technologies include React, Node, TypeScript, and GraphQL. We focus on three main areas:
The extensibility of web platforms in response to our stakeholders' needs.
The quality of releases regarding user experience and web performance.
The reliability of web infrastructure regarding its operation and scalability.
As the Engineering Manager, you will directly manage the individual contributors on the team, promote a positive engineering culture, and ensure the delivery of milestones. You will partner with our product manager to evolve our web platform and onboard new products and teams. You will use your background in modern web technologies to align on priorities and goals with our stakeholders.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.
Responsibilities:Manage a diverse team of software engineers
Foster a positive and inclusive team environment supporting individual team members in their growth through coaching, mentoring, and feedback
Work with Product Management to align on goals, priorities, and roadmaps
Maintain collaborative relationships with other teams and departments
Pursue engineering excellence through best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code
Communicate status, risks, and requirements to your peers and senior leaders
Hire candidates from diverse backgrounds for your team or the larger engineering organization
Oversee team operations including budgeting and the delivery of projects
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:1+ years experience as an Engineering manager or 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role working with cross-functional partners
8+ years of full-stack web development experience for web and mobile clients
You have experience balancing and navigating the trade-offs between maintaining existing systems while moving features onto evolving technology stacks
You have experience building centralized infrastructure, platforms, services, and other technologies that internal engineering teams use
You have experience building applications developed in a Node.js framework to be reliable, scalable, secure, and observable
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