Staff iOS Engineer - News Product

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, internal SDKs, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
• Guide app-wide architectural decisions, long-term technical roadmaps, iOS engineering standards, and large-scale migrations.
• Improve the News app’s quality, performance, reliability, maintainability, modularization, and observability.
• Collaborate with backend engineers, web teams, designers, mobile engineers, and internal dependency owners.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to iOS developer communities of practice.
• Integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code where applicable.
• Support the organization’s journalistic mission and values.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on large-scale iOS applications.
• Experience setting technical direction, guiding engineering teams, and leading mobile architecture.
• Deep knowledge 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, including UI framework shifts, monolithic decoupling, and automated refactoring.
• Experience with framework design, modularization, and internal SDK development.
• Product and developer experience mindset with the ability to translate complex goals and developer friction into scalable code.
• Passion for news, user-focused product development, clean and maintainable code, and The New York Times’ mission.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts, company-matching 401(k), and employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
• Eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock; base salary is listed separately.
• Hybrid role based at the New York City headquarters, typically requiring three days per week in the office.