Staff iOS Engineer - News Product

The News Product team at The New York Times is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer. You will work with our Native squad to lay the foundations for satisfying native app experiences. You will deliver world-class journalism to millions of daily readers in a responsive and performant medium. You will lead efforts to enhance the quality, performance, and long-term maintainability of the News app codebase. You will establishing a technical vision that ensures our native experiences remain responsive and reliable for all readers. As part of the News Product organization, you will work with designers, other mobile engineers, and web engineers, and more on a team.

This is an opportunity to use different tools, ranging from SwiftUI to hybrid web technologies - whatever will best solve the problem at hand. You'll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office 3 days/week.

You express:

Belief in our mission: You have passion with the news and for making the Times an indispensable daily destination for our readers.

Technical competency: You have knowledge of iOS frameworks and Swift, and keep up to date on changes in the frameworks, language and overall developer community.

Code cleanliness: You understand what makes code well structured, maintainable and flexible and aim to create a culture where quality code is valued.

User focus: You care about how design, engineering and product decisions help create a seamless, engaging and enjoyable user experience.

Responsibilities:

You will lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit that accelerate our feature teams.
You will work with your team to build solutions that are scalable, maintainable and reliable.
You will guide app-wide architectural decisions, shape the long-term technical roadmap, and set engineering standards for the iOS platform.
You will lead technical understanding, collaborating with backend engineers, web teams, and other internal dependency owners.
You will help promote standards in iOS and Swift delivery, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times.
You will lead programs to help the quality, performance and maintainability of the News app codebase
You will mentor engineers and contribute to/participate in Communities of Practice
Where applicable, you will integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code
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:

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.