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Staff iOS Engineer - News Product

The New York Times· Mobile Application Development
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New York, NY$162k - $195kfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Staff iOS Engineer role with The New York Times News Product team. Lead architecture, infrastructure, and maintenance of the News app across iOS, collaborating with designers, mobile and web engineers, and backend teams. Hybrid role based in NYC, with ~3 days in-office.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit that accelerate our feature teams.
  • Work with your team to build solutions that are scalable, maintainable and reliable.
  • Guide app-wide architectural decisions, shape the long-term technical roadmap, and set engineering standards for the iOS platform.
  • Lead technical understanding, collaborating with backend engineers, web teams, and other internal dependency owners.
  • Help promote standards in iOS and Swift delivery, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times.
  • Lead programs to help the quality, performance and maintainability of the News app codebase
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to/participate in Communities of Practice
  • Where applicable, integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and commitment to the mission.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on large-scale iOS applications.
  • Experience setting technical direction, guiding engineering teams, and leading mobile architecture.
  • Deep mastery 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 (e.g., UI framework shifts, monolithic decoupling, automated refactoring).
  • Experience with framework design and modularization, including internal SDK development.
  • Product and Developer Experience (DX) mindset with the vision to translate complex goals and developer friction into scalable code.

Skills

Required:iOS frameworksSwiftSwiftUIUIKitConcurrencyArchitecture

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • company-matching 401(k) plan
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • paid vacation
  • paid sick days
  • paid parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • professional development programs
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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