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Staff iOS Engineer - News Product

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Staff iOS Engineer - News Product in USA

  • The New York Times
  • Full time
  • Email
  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, internal SDKs, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
  • Guide app-wide architectural decisions, long-term technical roadmaps, iOS engineering standards, and large-scale migrations.
  • Improve the News app’s quality, performance, reliability, maintainability, modularization, and observability.
  • Collaborate with backend engineers, web teams, designers, mobile engineers, and internal dependency owners.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to iOS developer communities of practice.
  • Integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code where applicable.
  • Support the organization’s journalistic mission and values.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on large-scale iOS applications.
  • Experience setting technical direction, guiding engineering teams, and leading mobile architecture.
  • Deep knowledge of iOS runtime mechanics, memory management, advanced design patterns, and Swift Concurrency.
  • Hands-on experience designing complex data persistence layers, advanced networking, and scalable test suites.
  • Expertise in mobile performance engineering, including app launch optimization, binary size reduction, and memory profiling.
  • Experience designing client-side observability infrastructure using Datadog or similar platforms.
  • Experience orchestrating large-scale architectural migrations, including UI framework shifts, monolithic decoupling, and automated refactoring.
  • Experience with framework design, modularization, and internal SDK development.
  • Product and developer experience mindset with the ability to translate complex goals and developer friction into scalable code.
  • Passion for news, user-focused product development, clean and maintainable code, and The New York Times’ mission.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts, company-matching 401(k), and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Paid vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave.
  • Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
  • Eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock; base salary is listed separately.
  • Hybrid role based at the New York City headquarters, typically requiring three days per week in the office.

Salary: $162k - $195k/yr

The New York Times

The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society. Our reporters, columnists, editors, engineers, designers, data analysts, developers and marketers breathe life into the most important topics of our time and tell stories th...

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