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| Posted On: | Wednesday, Feb 13 |
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| Permalink: | http://gary.to/vy1wzzr |
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Company
| The NY Times Company |
| The New York Times Company, a leading media company includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com and related properties. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. |
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Job Description
The New York Times is seeking curious, creative and passionate software engineers to create cutting-edge web applications for nytimes.com. This is a rare opportunity to play an integral part in transforming the publishing industry. The successful candidate must not only be an outstanding developer, he or she will be expected to help develop new ideas and creative uses of technology to make NYTimes.com the premier news site for our visitors and advertisers. Ideally this person has experience with one of the modern web development frameworks and the ability to develop a project through its entire lifecycle.
As part of our E-commerce UI team, you will enjoy a vibrant culture that promotes innovation -- nestled within an established and respected institution. Inside our new midtown building, you will find floor-to-ceiling windows, plenty of whiteboards, a sushi chef, and a staff with a sense of humor and a passion for beautiful software. As part of our commitment to our developer relations and larger development ecosystem support we host:
- Frequent technical presentations for knowledge sharing within and across teams
- An internal technical challenge competition that rewards the authors of practical solutions, by giving them the time, resources and support needed to create production-ready application
- The Times Developer Network, a clearinghouse for the open APIs we build on top of our high-quality content data sources: http://developer.nytimes.com/
- The Open Blog, where we describe API capabilities and improvements and cover a wide range of other interesting topics: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/
- The TimesOpen event series, which engages, draws from and contributes to the larger developer community: http://nytimes.com/marketing/timesopen/
Responsibilities
- Writing beautiful code for applications and services that will give our visitors the experience they expect from a world class media organization
- Integrating a diverse set of data sources
- Providing solid architecture and documentation for your applications
- Be a collaborative part of a team of extremely talented developers who love to learn and grow
You must have:
- B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Strong understanding of object oriented design & programming
- Mastery of at least one modern object oriented language such as PHP (preferred)
- Competency in object oriented JavaScript and prominent libraries such as jQuery
- Working knowledge of CSS and semantic HTML
- Ability to communicate effectively with business side clients to gather and translate functional specs
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
You ideally have:
- Experience working as part of a large development team
- Experience with HTML5 and Node.js
- Experience with the SCRUM agile methodology
- Experience writing shared and reusable components of code
- Experience designing and tuning applications that scale
- Familiarity with modern deployment and testing tools or platforms
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship, or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense. |
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