Senior iOS Engineer, Core News App

The New York Times app has nearly a million weekly active users and supports the New York Times mission of seeking the truth and helping educate the world. We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join the App Experience (AppX) team to work on the NYT app experience. The Senior iOS Engineer will work with backend developers, product, data and design team members.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain features using Swift
• Contribute to app architectural decisions, technical roadmap and timeline estimations
• Participate in technical discussions with backend developers and other owners of internal/external dependencies
• Help promote standards in Swift development, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years full time experience as an iOS Engineer
• Understanding of iOS design patterns, memory management and multi-threading
• Hands-on iOS Swift experience, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence and UI
• Experience working with cross-functional product teams to translate product goals into quality shippable code
• Understanding of what makes code well structured and maintainable
• Experience navigating a large, legacy codebase or experience with Objective-C and UI Kit

Additional Qualifications:

• Demonstrated interest in news and making the Times an indispensable daily destination for our readers
• Knowledge of how design, engineering, and product decisions help create a seamless, engaging, and enjoyable user experience
• Experience with SwiftUI

This role can be fully remote in the US or based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Engineering Manager, App Experience. The role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization.