The New York Times
Staff iOS Engineer - News Product
$162K–$195K
New York, NY · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years focused on large-scale iOS applications.
About the job
Leads iOS architecture and engineering for The New York Times News app, improving its quality, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability for millions of readers.
What you'll do
- Lead core architecture, shared frameworks, infrastructure, and app-wide technical direction for the iOS platform.
- Drive programs to improve app quality, performance, and maintainability; guide architectural migrations and engineering standards.
- Collaborate across product, design, mobile, web, and backend teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 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 mastery of iOS runtime mechanics, memory management, advanced design patterns, and Swift Concurrency.
- Hands-on experience with complex persistence, advanced networking, scalable test suites, mobile performance engineering, client-side observability, architectural migrations, and framework design/modularization.
Pay
$162,000 — $195,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Datadog
AI focus
No AI development work is stated. The posting asks applicants not to use GenAI tools to generate substantive application or interview content; engineering candidates will be told which tools are permitted for technical assessments.
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