Senior iOS Engineer

Team

Join The New York Times' mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Our mobile apps bring this mission to subscribers' hands across flagship News, Games, Cooking, Growth Platform, and App Platforms teams. You'll collaborate with native iOS and Android engineers, QA, product, project, data, and design professionals.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship iOS features by enhancing existing code and creating new functionality from scratch
• Write clean, maintainable code using Swift and SwiftUI
• Participate in code reviews and write unit tests; collaborate with QA to enable robust automated functional tests
• Contribute to app architectural decisions, documentation, technical roadmap, and timeline estimations
• Integrate with internal NY Times services and external third-party APIs
• Stay current on iOS technologies, best practices, and AI tooling for mobile development
• Demonstrate commitment to journalistic independence and the NYT mission

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional native iOS development experience using Swift
• iOS design patterns, memory management, and multi-threading (SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, MVVM/MVI, CoreData/GRDB)
• Knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer code review
• Experience with mobile app release process, build tools, and continuous integration
• Experience with Agile software development practices
• Understanding of dependency injection
• Proven focus on app performance, quality, and responsiveness

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of iOS UI concepts (layouts, themes, styles, views) and Material Design guidelines
• Experience working on a mobile platform team
• Experience working with a distributed team and asynchronous collaboration

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Restricted stock
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Company-matching 401(k) plan
• Paid vacation, paid sick days
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development programs
• Limited on-call hours (schedule determined by team size and variables)
• Hybrid role based at NYC headquarters
• Equal opportunity employer with Fair Chance hiring practices