Web Engineer, T Brand (Temporary)

📋 Description

• • Shape the digital face of The New York Times’ advertising ecosystem by engineering high-impact, brand-safe ad templates that reach tens of millions of readers every month. Your code will power campaigns for Fortune-500 clients while preserving the premium editorial experience that defines the Times.
• • Own the full lifecycle of ad-template development—from interpreting creative briefs and wireframes to writing production-ready HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that renders flawlessly across desktop, mobile web, and in-app environments. You will ensure every asset is performant, accessible, and compliant with IAB, MRC, and internal brand standards.
• • Collaborate daily with UI/UX designers, product managers, ad-ops specialists, and backend engineers in an agile, remote-first squad. You will translate static designs into fluid, responsive layouts, participate in design critiques, and iterate rapidly based on A/B test results and stakeholder feedback.
• • Build reusable component libraries and style guides that accelerate campaign turnaround times and enforce visual consistency. You will document patterns in Storybook, maintain versioned packages in our private npm registry, and evangelize best practices across the advertising product organization.
• • Optimize for speed and scale: audit template payloads, implement lazy-loading strategies, and leverage server-side rendering where appropriate to keep Time-to-Interactive under two seconds—even on 3G networks. You will monitor Core Web Vitals and partner with the performance team to hit aggressive SLAs.
• • Integrate seamlessly with Google Ad Manager, Prebid.js, and proprietary ad-delivery APIs to enable rich media formats such as expandable units, parallax scrollers, and interactive video overlays. You will write defensive code that gracefully degrades when third-party scripts fail or are blocked.
• • Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and privacy (CCPA, GDPR) from day one. You will conduct keyboard-navigability audits, add ARIA roles, and ensure user-consent flows are respected before any tracking pixels fire.
• • Contribute to the continuous improvement of our build pipeline—Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Jest, and GitHub Actions. You will open pull requests with clear descriptions, write unit tests that cover edge cases, and perform thorough code reviews for teammates.
• • Provide tier-3 support for live campaigns, diagnosing rendering issues across browsers and devices via Charles Proxy, BrowserStack, and proprietary analytics dashboards. You will create post-mortems that feed back into template refinements and engineering roadmaps.
• • Experiment with emerging formats—AMP ads, WebGL, and in-article AR experiences—by building proof-of-concept demos that can be pitched to premium advertisers. You will stay plugged into industry forums (IAB Tech Lab, W3C Web Advertising BG) and share insights during monthly guild meetings.
• • Document everything: technical specs, release notes, and runbooks live in Confluence and are kept current so that any engineer can onboard and deploy a new template within hours, not days.
• • Embrace a “temporary but impactful” mindset: although this role is slated for six months, your contributions will leave a lasting footprint—clean architecture, thorough hand-off sessions, and a backlog of future enhancements that the permanent team can execute with confidence.