The New York Times seeks to deliver a performant, stable and engaging app experience for its News apps, which are the core of the New York Times mobile experience, to support the company's mission of independent journalism and subscriber growth goals.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams
- 4+ years of experience building complex and highly performant iOS apps
- Demonstrate understanding of iOS best practices and how to advocate for iOS engineers
- Experience working in complex product organizations, supporting stakeholders with diverse and sometimes conflicting technical and product requirements
- Experience working with large legacy codebases
- Experience driving a culture of performance monitoring and observability
- Experience working on or leading a team responsible for being the steward of a codebase with contributors from across multiple engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Manage a group of mobile developers responsible for building, releasing and maintaining the iOS News app and collaborating with dependent engineering teams
- Contribute and support the team in architecture decisions, technical roadmap and timeline estimations
- Collaborate with the Mobile Platforms team to help the team implement best practices around core app architecture, development workflow and coding standards
- Collaborate with partners in Product, Design and Data to prioritize and deliver features that will impact our subscriber growth goals
- Define and drive observability and monitoring for the iOS News app
- Manage career development for engineers at various stages of their career growth
- Contribute to creating an inclusive and supportive culture within the News team and the greater NYT engineering organization
Other
- 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
- Typically expect to come into the office two days per week
- Manage career development for engineers at various stages of their career growth
- Contribute to creating an inclusive and supportive culture within the News team and the greater NYT engineering organization
- The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable 'Fair Chance' laws
