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⬡ NEWYORK EDITION · June 2026 ⬡ BROWSE DEV ROLES ·

Infrastructure

NYC's Tech Stack Is Crumbling - and 10k Devs Are the Only Fix

An audit of New York's municipal software reveals a fragile patchwork of PHP 5.3, Oracle 11g, and handwritten COBOL holding together systems that process $3.4 bln daily. A new initiative wants to change that - one pull request at a time.

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Lower Manhattan, June 2026. Photo: Unsplash

By Robert Chen · June 6, 2026

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"We keep building for scale we don't have yet, and ignoring the scale we already can't handle. The city's infrastructure crisis is a mirror of every startup that ever said 'we'll fix it later.'"

- RVF, Principal Engineer at NYC OpenData · Read the column →

Dev Jobs · NEWYORK

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Relay Finance

Senior Laravel Engineer

$200–240K remote-ok

Bloomberg L.P.

Staff Platform Engineer

$280–340K hybrid

Cloudflare NYC

DevRel Engineer

$180–220K remote

NYC Mayor's Office

Backend (PHP/Go)

$160–190K on-site