Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The New York Times is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the technical evolution of their programmatic video advertising capabilities. The role involves collaborating across product teams to build performant, video-first ad experiences and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Architect Video Ad Products: Create seamless outstream (in-read, in-page) and instream video experiences across NYT products
- Identity and Privacy: Design and implement solutions for identity resolution within the programmatic stack, ensuring high auction match rates auctions while maintaining strict privacy standards
- Standards and Compliance: Implement and promote industry standards for video delivery, such as VAST or VPAID, ensuring compatibility across our multi-platform environment
- Performance Monitoring: Oversee end-to-end performance of video ads, focusing on Core Web Vitals and reducing the "time to first frame" for outstream units
- Mentorship and Quality: Advocate for codebase quality, mentor engineers on the nuances of programmatic auctions, and foster an environment of excellence
- 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
- This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager, Ad Experience
Skills
- Experience: You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on AdTech
- Programmatic Expertise: You understand programmatic advertising including bidder configuration, universal identity providers (e.g., UID2, LiveRamp), and optimizing auctions in web and mobile environments
- Video Specialization: You understand outstream and programmatic video workflows. You are comfortable working with video players and ad-signaling protocols
- Technical Experience: You are proficient in TypeScript/JavaScript, front-end library CI/CD tooling, and version control
- Yield and Performance Driven: You understand how technical decisions, such as identity matching and auction depth, impact programmatic yield and user latency
- AI Experience: Hands-on experience with agentic or AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code or Cursor) including the ability to effectively direct, iterate on, and verify AI-generated output
- Hybrid or web viewed content within Apps
Benefits
- Variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
- A company-matching 401(k) plan
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick days
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
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