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 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 an iOS Engineer to join the App Experience (AppX) team to work on the NYT app experience. The iOS Engineer will work with backend developers, product, data and design team members.
At The New York Times Company, building an experienced and diverse workforce is an important part of our mission. We are committed to a hiring process that is inclusive, fair and transparent, and one that puts emphasis on our commitment to career development. This position is based in New York.
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:
- You will create features using Swift
- You will participate in technical discussions with backend developers and other owners of internal/external dependencies
- You will help promote standards in Swift delivery, 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:
- 2+ years full time experience as an iOS Engineer
- Demonstrated understanding of iOS design patterns, memory management and multi-threading
- 2+ years of hands-on iOS Swift experience, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence and UI
- Experience with UI Kit
Preferred Qualifications:
- You have a good product sense and the vision to translate product goals into quality shippable code
- Experience with Swift UI
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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