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The New York Times

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 The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It&rsquo;s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It&rsquo;s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it&rsquo;s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it&rsquo;s worth paying for.
 
 
 
 
 About The Role, Mission Or Department Overview
 
 
 
 The New York Times is looking for a Web Platform Engineer with full-stack skills to join the Web Platform squad within the Games team. You'll join a foundational squad of engineers, designers, and product managers to help create incredible, immersive gaming experiences across The New York Time's suite of unique games. You'll be at the heart of the Games mission. You'll build the infrastructure and new puzzle capabilities that power our world-class content. Additionally, you'll maintain the internal editorial tools that allow our puzzle creators to excel.
 
 
 Your work will expand and strengthen the technology behind our existing games while allowing the launch of new experiences. As a member of the platform group, you will bridge the gap between and creative vision, collaborating with partners in Product, Design, and Production. You'll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency, diversity, learning, and building a community of practice.
 
 
 We build our web applications in React, using accessible, semantic HTML and SCSS to provide a high-quality, inclusive experience for all players. As a web platform engineer, you will focus on creating front-end architectures that power our games and editorial tools. You will also develop the performant APIs and endpoints in Go that serve as the backbone for our gaming ecosystem. We host our infrastructure primarily on AWS, using Redis for caching and Fastly for edge delivery.
 
 
 This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters.
 
 
 
 Responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Develop the foundational web infrastructure and shared component libraries that help engineering teams to ship high-quality gaming experiences.
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 Develop new puzzle capabilities and features for the internal editorial platform, empowering content creators to build immersive new games.
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 Build performant, scalable APIs in Go to support the evolving needs of the Games ecosystem.
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 Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and Production to translate creative visions into technical solutions.
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 Optimize web performance and accessibility across the Games suite, using edge computing and modern front-end best practices to provide a world-class player experience.
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 Champion technical excellence by participating in code reviews, defining best practices, and contributing to the engineering community of practice.
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 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.
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 You will report to the Engineering Manager, Web Platform squad.
 
 
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 Basic Qualifications
 
 
 
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 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and maintaining features within high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems.
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 Proficiency in front-end fundamentals, including modern JavaScript (ES6+), semantic HTML, and CSS/SCSS, with a focus on web performance and accessibility.
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 Professional experience with React (or a similar modern framework) for building complex, scalable web applications and internal tools.
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 Experience building shared component libraries that multiple engineering teams consume to guide UI consistency and developer velocity across an organization, which they designed.
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 Experience writing performant server-side code; while we use Go, experience with Java or Python is applicable.
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 Experience with cloud infrastructure and content delivery, including AWS (or GCP), Redis, databases, containerized environments (Docker), and Edge computing/CDNs like Fastly.
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 A collaborative, product-oriented mindset with experience working with partners like Product, Design, and Editorial teams to build new puzzle capabilities.
 
 
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 Preferred Qualifications
 
 
 
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 Prior engineering experience in the gaming industry with web-based games, puzzles, or interactive media.
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 Demonstrated interest in mission-driven engineering and a desire to partner with an accomplished team to support the journalistic independence of The New York Times.
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 Experience with CI/CD automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Drone, or Terraform) and a "DevOps" approach to platform stability.
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 Familiarity with managing and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, or Grafana) to improve the player experience.
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 Strong communication skills and a "product-first" mindset, with an obsession for end-user satisfaction and editorial efficiency.
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 A growth-oriented mindset: You embrace technical challenges, learn from mistakes, and are eager to share your findings to help the whole team level up.
 
 
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 This role requires limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
 
 
 REQ-019618
 
 
 The annual base pay range for this role is between:
 
 
 $110,000 - $130,000 USD
 
 
 For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include 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.
 
 
 For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
 
 
 The New York Times Company is committed to being the world&rsquo;s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
 
 
 We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)&rsquo;s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.
 
 
 The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
 
 
 The Company encourages those with criminal histories to apply, and will consider their applications in a manner consistent with applicable "Fair Chance" laws, including but not limited to the NYC Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
 
 
 For information about The New York Times' privacy practices for job applicants click here.
 
 
 Please beware of fraudulent job postings. Scammers may post fraudulent job opportunities, and they may even make fraudulent employment offers. This is done by bad actors to collect personal information and money from victims. All legitimate job opportunities from The New York Times will be accessible through The New York Times careers site. The New York Times will not ask job applicants for financial information or for payment, and will not refer you to a third party to do so. You should never send money to anyone who suggests they can provide employment with The New York Times.
 
 
 If you see a fake or fraudulent job posting, or if you suspect you have received a fraudulent offer, you can report it to The New York Times at NYTapplicants@nytimes.com. You can also file a report with the Federal Trade Commission or your state attorney general.
 
 
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Software Engineer, Games - Web Platform

Bustem.com

<div>
 
 
 Founding Engineer | Bustem
 
 
 
 Location: New York City (In Office)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About:
 
 
 
 At
 
 Bustem
 
 , we&rsquo;re building AI powered brand protection for eCommerce brands. We protect brands from fake listings, impersonation, and copycats across marketplaces, social platforms, and the open web, turning what used to be a messy, manual process into something fast, systematic, and effective.
 
 
 
 
 
 In less than twelve months, we&rsquo;ve scaled to over $3M in revenue and partnered with more than 150 top e-commerce brands, including Comfrt Clothing, Plunge, Primal Queen, and Jones Road Beauty. We&rsquo;re profitable, growing quickly, and haven&rsquo;t raised a dollar.
 
 
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re now hiring early team members to help build the next phase of Bustem. This is a rare chance to join a company that already has strong product-market fit, real traction, and momentum, while still being early enough to shape the product, the systems, and the culture. If you like ownership, speed, and building things that actually ship and matter, you&rsquo;ll feel at home here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Role
 
 
 
 We&rsquo;re looking for a Founding Engineer to help us build the technical backbone of Bustem.
 
 
 Your North Star: build scalable, reliable systems that detect and remove counterfeit activity faster and more effectively than our brand protection team.
 
 
 
 
 
 As a Founding Engineer, you&rsquo;ll be working on core infrastructure and product systems that directly power our customers&rsquo; results. You&rsquo;ll have real ownership, minimal process overhead, and the ability to design and ship end-to-end systems, not just small pieces of them.
 
 
 
 
 
 This role is for someone who likes autonomy, ambiguity, and responsibility. You&rsquo;ll be expected to think deeply about architecture, move quickly, and make good tradeoffs without needing constant direction.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Work On
 
 
 
 You&rsquo;ll spend the majority of your time across two core initiatives:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Real-Time Infringer Detection
 
 
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 Build and scale Bustem&rsquo;s AI-powered web scraping and detection systems
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 Improve speed, reliability, and coverage across marketplaces, social platforms, and the open web
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 Design systems that can detect new infringers as they appear, in real time
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 Work with large volumes of data and constantly changing external environments
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 2. Autonomous Enforcement &amp; Reporting
 
 
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 Build and evolve Bustem&rsquo;s autonomous enforcement agents
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 Enable automated reporting of infringers to platforms at scale
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 Design workflows that can handle hundreds of infringers across hundreds of clients simultaneously
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 Improve accuracy, success rates, and throughput of enforcement actions
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 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
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 Design, build, and maintain scalable internal APIs and backend systems
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 Own features end-to-end: from architecture to implementation to production
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 Work primarily with Next.js, Postgres, and modern backend infrastructure
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 Leverage LLMs and automation to move faster and reduce manual work
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 Collaborate closely with product, ops, and customer-facing teams
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 Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, quality, and scale
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 Continuously improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability
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 What We&rsquo;re Looking For
 
 
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 3 - 7 years of experience as a software engineer, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment.
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 Strong experience with Next.js and Postgres
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 Experience building scalable internal APIs and backend systems
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 Comfort working with little supervision and a high degree of ownership
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 Ability to take vague problems and turn them into shipped solutions
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 Adept at using LLMs and AI tooling to move faster and build smarter systems
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 Nice to Have
 
 
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 Experience working on large-scale or high-traffic systems
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 Background in scraping, data pipelines, automation, or distributed systems
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 Experience in eCommerce, marketplaces, or platform integrations
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 We value people who can build complete systems. If you&rsquo;ve worked at big tech, that&rsquo;s great, but what matters most is your ability to design, own, and ship meaningful systems independently.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Why Join Bustem
 
 
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 Build core systems that directly drive customer value and revenue
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 Real ownership and influence over technical direction
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 Work directly with the founding team
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 No legacy code, no heavy process, no endless meetings
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 A profitable company with real traction and momentum
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Founding Software Engineer

Amazon.com

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">DESCRIPTION</h2><div>
Amazon's Creator Services team leads creator programs that span media, commerce, and culture. We connect creators and Amazon's diverse businesses, helping bring big ideas to life across Wondery, Amazon Music, Twitch, Audible, Amazon Games, and beyond. Join us in making Amazon the home for creators.
 
 
We're seeking a leader to build and scale our Content Growth team in service of our creator partnerships. This role will own the strategy and execution of content distribution across all services &ndash; including YouTube, TikTok, Meta, and Amazon's owned-and-operated products &ndash; to maximize audience reach, engagement, and monetization for our creator partners. Today, those creator shows include New Heights (Jason and Travis Kelce), Mind The Game (LeBron James and Steve Nash), Baby, This Is Keke Palmer (Keke Palmer), Armchair Expert (Dax Shepard), and more. You'll lead a team responsible for transforming how we distribute and optimize creator content, building in-house platform expertise, and developing scalable workflows that drive growth. This role reports to the Head of Creator Partnerships and must be located in New York City or Los Angeles.
 
 
Key job responsibilities 
Content Distribution Strategy &amp; Execution:
 
<ul><li>Develop and execute comprehensive content distribution strategies across YouTube, TikTok, Meta, RSS, and Amazon O&amp;O services to maximize reach, engagement, and monetization.
</li><li>Build specialized in-house expertise for each service, including deep understanding of algorithms, audience behaviors, and technical specifications.
</li><li>Lead innovation in short-form and mid-form content optimization.
</li><li>Cultivate relationships with all distribution services, negotiate platform partnerships, and represent Creator Services in all platform partner meetings, conferences, and events.
</li><li>Transform manual distribution workflows into automated, scalable solutions that support growing content volume.
</li><li>Design and implement standardized performance measurement frameworks across all distribution endpoints.
</li><li>Build with AI to find opportunities for automation, optimization, and workflow improvements.
</li></ul>Team Leadership &amp; Development: 
<ul><li>Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team.
</li><li>Develop team capabilities to establish Creator Services as trusted advisors to creators on growth strategies.
</li><li>Set clear performance metrics and goals aligned with overall business objectives.
</li><li>Lead cross-functional initiatives with Creator Services, Creator Ad Partnerships, and other Amazon teams.
</li></ul>Monetization &amp; Analytics: 
<ul><li>Partner closely with Creator Ad Partnerships to ensure distribution strategies support monetization goals and scale ad/sponsorship opportunities.
</li><li>Develop distribution approaches that optimize for high-value inventory and premium sponsorship opportunities.
</li><li>Build analytics capabilities to measure content performance, identify growth opportunities, and translate data into insights and actionable strategies that drive revenue growth.
</li></ul>Creator Advisory: 
<ul><li>Serve as a strategic growth advisor to creator partners, providing guidance on distribution optimization.
</li><li>Develop and share platform-specific best practices and guidance that help creators grow audiences and increase monetization.
</li><li>Create scalable frameworks demonstrating the distribution value Creator Services brings to partnerships.
</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</h2><ul><li>10+ years of building and leading large teams and working in matrixed operating structures experience</li><li>Knowledge of distribution networks and channel P&amp;Ls</li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent</li><li>Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross functional teams or equivalent</li><li>Experience in strategic thinking about business, enterprise software products, and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent</li><li>Experience negotiating VP-level contracts with channel partners and agencies</li><li>Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Product Management, Customer Service, Operations, Legal, Finance, and Senior Leadership</li><li>Experience driving growth through and with cross-functional teams including inside sales, technical, marketing, segmentation, legal (contracts)</li><li>7+ years of experience in digital content distribution, platform partnerships, or creator economy operations</li><li>Demonstrated expertise in content optimization across major distribution platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Meta)</li><li>Proven track record developing and executing multi-platform distribution strategies that drive measurable audience growth and engagement</li><li>Experience establishing scalable workflows and operational frameworks to support content volume expansion</li><li>Strong analytical capabilities translating platform performance data into actionable growth strategies</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</h2><ul><li>10+ years of managing and developing high performance teams experience</li><li>Master's degree or equivalent</li><li>Experience in Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting</li></ul> 
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. 
 
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 
 
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. 
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits. 
USA, CA, Culver City - 193,700.00 - 262,000.00 USD annually 
USA, NY, New York - 213,000.00 - 288,200.00 USD annually</div>

Content Growth Lead, Creator Partnerships

Savvy Wealth

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">About Savvy Wealth:</h2>
Wealth management is a $545 billion industry in the US, yet remains archaic and inefficient with low technology penetration. 75% of financial advisors don&rsquo;t offer digital communication beyond email, and 62% still build financial plans manually in Excel. This leads to a poor client experience and results in financial advisors spending over 70% of their time on non-client facing, manual work.
Savvy is changing that. We&rsquo;re building the most advisor-centric platform in wealth management: a digital-first solution that modernizes human financial advice. Advisors who partner with Savvy tap into AI-powered software, automated sales and marketing, and seamless back office workflows to scale faster and spend more time with clients.
We&rsquo;ve raised over $105M to date from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Mark Casady (former LPL Financial CEO), and other top-tier investors. Our team is made up of repeat founders and operators who&rsquo;ve helped build Airbnb, Square, Brex, Carta, Facebook, $200B+ RIAs, and more.
Savvy is at a pivotal point in its growth trajectory, having established strong product-market fit in providing a modern platform to financial advisors. We&rsquo;ve surpassed $2.2 billion in AUM in less than three years, grown 600%+ in the last 18 months, and are entering the next phase of the company which involves rapid expansion of our product offering and continued revenue growth. Come help us scale!
Responsibilities:<ul><li>
Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable confident, low-friction deployments that work consistently across services and environments</li><li>
Build and maintain local and cloud development environments so engineers can spin up, test, and debug changes with minimal setup or surprises</li><li>
Standardize alerting, metrics, and logging across systems to enable quick diagnosis and reduce firefighting time</li><li>
Systematically identify and resolve developer experience pain points: slow tests, flaky builds, unclear failures, and missing documentation</li><li>
Introduce strategic automation (e.g., test selection, release validation, infrastructure checks) where it clearly improves velocity or safety</li><li>
Leverage AI to accelerate engineering workflows, from code review and test generation to infrastructure management</li><li>
Partner with product engineering teams to drive adoption of platform improvements through trust and collaboration, not mandates</li></ul>
Must have:<ul><li>
5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on infrastructure, platform, or developer experience work</li><li>
Strong proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)</li><li>
Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)</li><li>
Solid understanding of observability and monitoring tools (Datadog preferred) for metrics, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing</li><li>
Proficiency in scripting and automation (Ruby, Python, Bash, or Go)</li><li>
Experience with web application backends (Ruby on Rails preferred) and frontend build tooling (pnpm, Turborepo, ESLint, Jest/Vitest, Playwright)</li><li>
Systems thinking with pragmatism. You design reliable systems that scale for current and near-term needs without over-engineering</li><li>
Strong communication skills with the ability to drive adoption through mentorship and partnership</li></ul>
Nice to have:<ul><li>
Experience migrating workloads between cloud providers or PaaS platforms (e.g., Heroku to AWS)</li><li>
Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration at scale</li><li>
Fintech domain knowledge including financial services, regulatory compliance, or financial data integrations</li><li>
Experience with macOS development toolchains and Apple Silicon environments</li><li>
Track record of measurably improving developer productivity or deployment velocity</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Benefits:</h2><ul><li>
Competitive salary and equity package</li><li>
Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays</li><li>
Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans</li><li>
Company 401(k), Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans</li><li>
NYC office in the heart of Manhattan</li><li>
Lunch and snacks provided in the office</li><li>
Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health), vision related benefits (XP Health), and health concierge (Rightway) to help you find the right care</li><li>
Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)</li></ul>
Compensation Range: $165K - $226K</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Nightdive Studios

<div>Full-Time Contract Remote Position 


OBJECTIVES OF THIS ROLE

We are in the process of staffing up our development team with outstanding talent to tackle a brand new sci-fi remake project using Unreal Engine 5. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is tired of being a cog in a bigger machine, but would rather be responsible for defining animation direction and authoring critical player-facing animations and cinematic sequences while working with a lean team.

With the goal of capturing and preserving the essence of the games that we all grew up with, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we'd love to hear from you!

REPORT STRUCTURE
<ul>
<li>This role reports directly to the Lead Artist and works closely with the Project Lead and Producer and other team leads to plan project roadmaps and outline tasks.</li>
<li>This role will directly manage a small animation group, which includes one animator and one technical animator.</li>
<li>This role is responsible for liaising with Design, Engineering, Animation, Audio, and QA to integrate features smoothly across disciplines and to fulfill the shared vision of the project.</li>
</ul>
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
<ul>
<li>Own the animation vision and direction for the project, ensuring consistency of animation style, weight, and responsiveness across all characters.</li>
<li>Define animation principles, style guides, and quality benchmarks for player characters, enemies, and interactive elements.</li>
<li>Lead the implementation of animation systems in-engine, including state machines, blend trees, animation graphs, IK, root motion, and procedural techniques.</li>
<li>Make final creative decisions related to animation, balancing expressive motion with gameplay clarity and technical constraints.</li>
<li>Review animation work from team members, providing clear, actionable feedback.</li>
<li>Create high quality, player-critical animations for locomotion, combat, traversal, and interaction, in both first-person and third-person as applicable.</li>
<li>Collaborate with artists to storyboard all cutscenes and cinematic sequences and animate the necessary characters to effectively convey critical story beats.</li>
<li>Work closely with Design to ensure animation supports gameplay intent, timing, and player feedback.</li>
<li>Partner closely with Engineering and Technical Design to develop scalable, maintainable animation systems and troubleshoot animation-related issues such as blending artifacts, deformation problems, timing issues, and performance concerns.</li>
<li>Manage and mentor an Animator and Technical Animator, providing guidance, feedback, and growth opportunities.</li>
<li>Coordinate animation priorities with Production, ensuring work is scoped, scheduled, and aligned with project milestones.</li>
<li>Serve as the primary animation contact for Design, Engineering, Art, and QA.</li>
<li>Be highly collaborative with other team members and willing to provide timely and constructive criticism to submissions from colleagues.</li>
<li>Respond well to feedback and constructive criticism to their submissions and workflows and be willing to quickly iterate on assets and systems.</li>
<li>Be self-motivated and highly adaptable to new workflows and processes while willing to learn new skills and insert into gaps within the team structure. We are looking for that &quot;Indie dev&quot; mindset.</li>
</ul>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
<ul>
<li>Ego-free, highly motivated, action-oriented, curious learn-it-all with a growth mindset.</li>
<li>Comfort operating in ambiguous and unregimented environments.</li>
<li>Expert-level experience animating in Maya or Blender for games, with a strong grasp of character movement, timing, weight, and expressiveness.</li>
<li>Deep understanding of technical animation systems, including state machines, blend trees, IK, animation layers, rigging fundamentals, skinning and deformation, and runtime constraints.</li>
<li>Proven experience implementing and debugging animation systems in a game engine (Unreal, Unity, proprietary).</li>
<li>Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience mentoring or leading other animators.</li>
<li>Ability to balance creative ambition with technical feasibility and performance needs.</li>
<li>Experience with first-person animation or immersive sim&ndash;style player movement.</li>
<li>Shipped at least one AA+ title</li>
<li>Likes Sci-Fi and Horror media.</li></ul></div>

Lead Animator (Contract)

Google

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Minimum qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or equivalent practical experience.
</li><li>5 years of experience programming in C++, Java or Go.</li>
<li>3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.</li> 
</ul> 
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
</li><li>5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.</li>
<li>1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
</li><li>Experience developing accessible technologies.
</li></ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">About the job</h2>
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google&rsquo;s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.<div></div><div> 
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.</div> 
Google Cloud accelerates every organization&rsquo;s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google&rsquo;s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.</div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h2><ul>
<li>Write and test product or system development code.</li>
<li>Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
</li><li>Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).</li>
<li>Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
</li><li>Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.</li>
</ul></div>Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Google Cloud Platforms

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 Minimum qualifications:
 
 
 
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 Bachelor&rsquo;s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
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 2 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
 
 
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 Master's degree or PhD in computer science or related technical fields.
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 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
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 Experience developing accessible technologies.
 
 
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 About The Job
 
 
 
 Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google&rsquo;s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
 
 
 AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products&mdash; Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.
 
 
 The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
 
 
 Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
 
 
 
 Responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Write product or system development code.
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 Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
 </li>
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 Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
 </li>
 <li>
 Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
 </li>
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 Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
 
 
 
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 Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
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Software Engineer III, Full Stack, Workspace

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