The New York Times is looking to enhance its NYT Cooking app by developing and scaling new features, ensuring app stability, and improving user experience through modern Android development practices.
Requirements
- 2+ years full-time experience as an Android Engineer working in Kotlin, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence, and UI
- Demonstrated understanding of Android design patterns, component life cycles, memory management, and concurrency.
- Experience with modern Android technologies such as Jetpack Compose and Coroutines
- Proficiency in integrating with RESTful APIs and understanding of best practices for consuming web services, including authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth).
- Familiarity with GraphQL and experience designing and consuming GraphQL APIs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and test new features using Kotlin and other modern Android development tools and frameworks
- Work with product, design, data, QA, and other engineers to guide product development
- Participate in code reviews
- Ensure app stability by writing quality code and partnering with the QA team to test and fix bugs
- Collaborate with internal NYTimes services and external APIs
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager.
Other
- This is a hybrid role based at our NYC headquarters, with the expectation to work in the office two days per week.
- Collaborate with teams including product, design, and QA.
- Contributions to open-source projects or a personal GitHub repository demonstrating Android app development skills.
- This role may require limited on-call hours.
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
