Senior Mobile Engineering Lead — Games Platform

The-New-York-Times; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Company-matching 401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Parental leave

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Games Mobile Apps in New York, NY. You will lead iOS and Android teams, shape the mobile platform strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver engaging puzzle games across our mobile apps.

Hybrid role with in-office 2-3+ days/week; you will drive architectural scalability, champion best practices, and mentor engineers while aligning with NYT’s mission of independent journalism.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of strategic leadership experience managing high-performing native mobile engineering teams.
• Deep technical fluency in building complex, high-performance iOS mobile apps; ability to guide both iOS and Android roadmaps.
• Adaptable and effective in high-momentum environments.
• Proven ability to navigate technical ambiguity and drive clarity across long-term, cross-functional initiatives.
• Advocate and facilitate continuous improvement and learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of iOS and Android engineers, including an Engineering Manager, utilizing core mobile technologies such as Swift and Kotlin.
• Define and drive a multi-year technical strategy for the mobile platform, balancing feature delivery with architectural scalability.
• Develop people and teams through coaching, mentoring and feedback
• Work with product owners, designers, producers to deliver high quality mobile products
• Work with native engineers and other managers across the Games team to help build reusable platform capabilities
• Modernize our development lifecycle by scaling best practices and integrating AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery.
• Collaborate with the App Platforms team to help the team implement best practices around core app architecture, development workflow and coding standards.
• 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.

Skills

Swift

Kotlin

Mobile leadership

Cross-functional

Tools

iOS

Android

Job description

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Games Mobile Apps in New York, NY. You will lead iOS and Android teams, shape the mobile platform strategy, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver engaging puzzle games across our mobile apps.

Hybrid role with in-office 2-3+ days/week; you will drive architectural scalability, champion best practices, and mentor engineers while aligning with NYT’s mission of independent journalism.