Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Associated Press is an independent global news organization that provides factual journalism and technology services for the news business. The Engineering Manager will lead a distributed team developing and delivering AP's consumer-facing web, mobile, CMS, and backend products while partnering with cross-functional teams and vendor partners. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, platform ownership, performance optimization, and delivery accountability.
Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor a distributed team of engineers, including vendor partners across multiple time zones
- Stay hands-on where it counts: code review, architectural decision records, prototyping, and unblocking your team on complex implementation challenges
- Bring AI-assisted development and agentic workflows into how the team works, and set sensible norms for their use in delivery and review
- Lead development of headless web applications using React / Next.js and native iOS and Android apps serving millions of users daily
- Extend the AP News CMS and backend services that power editorial workflows, publishing, and consumer products
- Own GraphQL API and data contracts, ensuring backward-compatible change across clients that ship on different cadences
- Drive performance across the stack, from Core Web Vitals on the client to latency and caching on the backend
- Coordinate web and app releases, and partner with AP's Operations Command Center on incident response and root cause analysis
- Partner with Product, Design, Editorial, QA, Security, and Revenue to turn roadmap initiatives into executable plans
- Keep the team focused on outcomes, making decisions quickly and steering effort toward the work that matters most
- Coach engineers through 1:1s, career conversations, and pairing, growing ownership and raising the technical bar across the team
Skills
- * 6+ years building and operating consumer-facing web and mobile applications and the backend systems behind them, including time in a technical leadership or engineering management role
- * Experience as a player-coach, staying technically close enough to review, prototype, and unblock while leading a team and owning delivery
- * A product-minded approach to engineering, with system design judgment that balances speed, scalability, and maintainability
- * Hands-on experience with AI development tools, and a considered view of where agentic workflows help a team most
- * Strong in TypeScript and React with a modern meta-framework (Next.js or equivalent), plus depth in at least one modern server-side language (TypeScript/Node, Go, Python, Java, or Kotlin)
- * Working familiarity with native iOS and Android release processes
- * Experienced designing and evolving GraphQL APIs across multiple client surfaces
- * Fluent in headless and structured content modeling, and in how editorial workflows and publishing states map to content types and downstream APIs
- * Deep experience with modern CI/CD: automated pipelines, feature flags and staged rollouts, quality gates that catch problems before release, and dependable rollback
- * Experience optimizing performance and diagnosing production issues in high-traffic, ad-supported environments, supported by good observability practice
- * Experience managing distributed teams and external vendors across time zones
- * Working knowledge of accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), web security and privacy fundamentals, SEO, and analytics
- * Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- If you are strong in one and credible in the other, we would like to hear from you
- New York (hybrid) or remote (US)
- * Experience with an enterprise CMS, particularly Brightspot
- * Familiarity with monetization systems (advertising and/or consumer pay) and first-party identity and data concepts
- * Experience coaching engineers through IC-to-tech-lead or mid-to-senior transitions
- * Experience working in pod or squad models with end-to-end ownership
- * Experience building and maintaining a shared component library or design system, with tooling such as Storybook
- * Experience integrating multimedia content, video platforms, and engagement features
- * Background in news, publishing, or another editorial environment
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Company paid life insurance
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Paid parental leave for any new parent
- Mental well-being resources
- New York (hybrid) or remote (US)
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