About the Role
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. Even with all the other items grabbing peoples’ attention, the natural human need to be informed, enriched and entertained remains strong, and we believe there’s room for us to improve and grow our app and increase our users’ engagement with the New York Times.
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.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Engineering Manager, App Experience. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.
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 to seek the truth and help people understand the world
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 may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.
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