Staff iOS Engineer - News Product
The New York Times5 hours ago
Base Salary
$162k - $195k/yr
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.
Tech Stack
DatadogiOSSwiftSwiftUI
Categories
Mobile
About The New York Times
The New York Times produces and distributes journalism and related digital products for global audiences across web, apps, print, audio, and newsletters. Its business model centers on paid subscriptions and advertising, offering the core news report alongside podcasts, newsletters, NYT Games, NYT Cooking, and Wirecutter product reviews. Founded in 1851 and headquartered in New York City, The New York Times Company is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NYT.