New York Times: JavaScript HTML5 Game Developer - Temporary

Location: New York, NY

The New York Times Company, a leading global, multimedia news and information company with 2011 revenues of $2.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com, BostonGlobe.com, Boston.com, 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. 

The team behind the NYTimes' HTML5 crossword application is expanding. You can learn more about the project on beta620: http://bit.ly/pXTmBO. 

At The Times, we embrace the best open source, commercial and custom built software to help our development teams flourish. Engineers here, are expected to be architects, implementors and product designers.

 

Please apply to join our team if you take pride in writing reusable code with an emphasis on quality over quantity. You consider yourself innovative: interested in applying new techniques and design patterns, but also fluent in current best practices and standards. You write modular code and constantly refactor. You understand why testing JavaScript is hard, but find ways to do it anyway. 

Responsibilities

– Work closely with product, design and the newsroom to create a best in class, cross-platform HTML5 crossword gaming experience

– Push the envelope for state of the art HTML5 web applications and development practices 

Requirements

– A strong understanding of JavaScript design patterns and current issues and practices

– Expertise in HTML, CSS, and cross-browser layout issues

– The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a smart and diverse team with a healthy appetite for debate 

Ideally

– Experience with Canvas, Node.js and Jasmine

– Proficient with Unix, scripting languages, SQL, and regular expressions

– Experience in building as well as consuming RESTful APIs. 

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.

To apply: send resume to chadas@nytimes.com