Mobile Software Engineer, Architecture & Core Platform
The Washington Post3 days ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$99k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain core mobile architecture patterns, shared foundational frameworks, and modular dependency graphs.
- Optimize cold and warm startup times, memory and binary footprint, rendering performance, battery efficiency, and main-thread usage.
- Create abstraction layers, adapter patterns, dependency injection strategies, and SDK integration layers for third-party, analytics, and revenue systems.
- Establish standardized API contracts, networking patterns, data persistence schemes, caching strategies, and offline synchronization approaches.
- Lead architecture discussions, author RFCs, define code-quality benchmarks, and conduct peer code reviews.
- Support integrations involving native monetization, audio/video playback, personalization, reader experiences, and content feeds.
- Ensure compliance with Apple and Google platform privacy policies, sandbox requirements, and operating-system updates.
- Champion automated testing, contract testing, and CI/CD pipeline reliability across client-server boundaries.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of professional mobile engineering experience shipping large-scale, production-grade applications.
- Strong proficiency in Swift and iOS development; Android or Kotlin Multiplatform familiarity is preferred.
- Deep understanding of MVVM, Clean Architecture, Unidirectional Data Flow/MVI, modularization, and related design patterns.
- Experience diagnosing system-level performance issues involving concurrency, memory leaks, frame drops, and network overhead.
- Experience architecting SDK integration layers, wrapper libraries, or plugin systems that protect application stability and crash-free rates.
- Understanding of client-server API design and schema definition using REST, Protocol Buffers/gRPC, or GraphQL.
- Experience with offline-first data synchronization, unit testing, integration testing, snapshot/UI testing, and continuous integration workflows.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Company-paid pension and 401(k) match.
- Three weeks of vacation, up to three weeks of paid sick leave, nine paid holidays, and two personal days.
- Twenty weeks of paid parental leave for any new parent.
- Mental health resources, backup care, and caregiver concierge services.
- Gender-affirming services, pet insurance, and a free Post digital subscription.
- Leadership and career development programs.
- Full-time work is generally on-site five days a week, with stated exceptions for newsgathering and business travel.
Tech Stack
GraphQLgRPCiOSSwift
Categories
Mobile
About The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a U.S. news organization that publishes national and international reporting across web, mobile apps, and print. It earns revenue from digital and print subscriptions, advertising, events, and licensing its Arc XP publishing platform. Founded in 1877 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it is owned by Nash Holdings, controlled by Jeff Bezos. The Post’s journalism reaches millions of readers and its software powers content sites for media and enterprise customers.