About The Role
The New York Times is seeking a Director of Engineering for our Games Platform, responsible for leading the platform engineering behind the Games offered by The New York Times. This role reports to the Head of Engineering for the Games Mission and involves close collaboration with partners in Product, Production, Design, and Data to accelerate product development across all our Games.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple teams of engineers to deliver the platform technical roadmap while ensuring quality and reusability of engineering capabilities.
- Create a line of sight to the 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 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.
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.
About The New York Times
The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories that might otherwise go untold. Working at The Times means envisioning and developing the future of journalism. Bring your passion, perspective and experience and join us as we seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Hybrid workplace
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