Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Games Web Platform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Games Web Platform)

Description

You’ll help shape the web platform behind The Times’ suite of games by building scalable product capabilities and strengthening existing games. The role involves end-to-end ownership of complex work across front-end architectures and performant Go APIs, with a focus on accessibility, performance, reliability, and shared platform capabilities. You’ll also provide technical leadership through architecture guidance, code reviews, mentorship, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of foundational web platform capabilities and shared component libraries for Games teams
• Design and operate performant, scalable Go APIs and services for the Games ecosystem
• Partner with Product, Design, and Production to shape technical approaches and turn concepts into reliable capabilities
• Improve performance, accessibility, and reliability across the Games suite using modern front-end practices and edge delivery
• Improve developer experience by building and evolving tools (including Claude Code tooling)
• Provide technical leadership via architecture and code reviews, engineering standards, and mentorship
• Strengthen production quality using testing, monitoring, and observability to identify and address issues

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building, deploying, and operating high-traffic web applications and distributed systems
• Experience leading complex engineering from design through production with sound technical tradeoffs
• Build accessible, performant web experiences with ES6+ JavaScript, semantic HTML, CSS/SCSS, and React (or similar)
• Design shared component libraries or platform capabilities used by multiple teams, including API design and long-term support
• Build performant, scalable APIs/services with Go, Java, or Python
• Deploy and operate production services on AWS or GCP using databases, Redis, Docker, and CDNs/edge platforms such as Fastly
• Improve production quality via testing, monitoring, and observability; provide technical leadership through reviews and mentorship
• Experience with CI/CD automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Drone, Terraform) and a DevOps approach
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, Grafana)

Benefits

• Base salary plus variable pay (annual bonus and restricted stock eligibility)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
• Company-matching 401(k)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid vacation and paid sick days
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
• Annual base pay range: $140,000–$160,000 USD