Senior Ios Engineer, App Squad

Senior iOS Engineer, App Squad

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join the Games Apps Team. Come help us create features that delight our customers!

NYT Games is behind the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, and more. We're a collaborative group that values inclusion, creativity, and building thoughtful, high-quality experiences.

This is a hybrid role based in NYC, typically in-office two days a week. You'll report to the Engineering Manager, NYT Games - Apps.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop secure, scalable iOS features in Swift
• Bring a product mindset to collaboratively align technical solutions with product and long-term tech and mission vision
• Collaborate with backend and cross-platform engineers to deliver cohesive, integrated features
• Contribute to roadmap planning, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement of released features
• Stay up-to-date on iOS best practices and bring new ideas to the team
• Support a team culture grounded in NYT's values
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of iOS experience in Swift, including unit testing, networking, data persistence, and UI development
• 1+ years as a tech lead on complex apps
• SwiftUI, UIKit, iOS design patterns, profiling, memory management, and multi-threading experience
• Experience with REST/GraphQL, testing, SQLite, and dependency injection

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience translating product goals into quality, delivered features
• Experience in mobile platform engineering
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for iOS
• Experience in game development would be desirable, but not required.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for puzzle games, game-related editorial, and understanding of The New York Times' mission.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$140,000 - $155,000 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world's best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.