Staff iOS Engineer - Tech Lead, Architecture & Performance

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

F.S.A.s

401(k) plan with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

Job summary

The News Product team at The New York Times is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer. You will work with our Native squad to lay foundations for satisfying native app experiences and deliver world-class journalism to millions of daily readers.

You will lead efforts to enhance quality, performance and long-term maintainability of the News app codebase. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, with an expectation to come into the office about 3 days per week.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 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 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 (e.g., UI framework shifts, monolithic decoupling, automated refactoring).
• Experience with framework design and modularization, including internal SDK development.
• Product and Developer Experience (DX) mindset with the vision to translate complex goals and developer friction into scalable code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit that accelerate feature teams.
• Work with your team to build solutions that are scalable, maintainable and reliable.
• Guide app-wide architectural decisions, shape the long-term technical roadmap, and set engineering standards for the iOS platform.
• Lead technical understanding, collaborating with backend engineers, web teams, and other internal dependency owners.
• Help promote standards in iOS and Swift delivery, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times.
• Lead programs to help the quality, performance and maintainability of the News app codebase.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to/participate in Communities of Practice.
• Where applicable, integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on large-scale iOS applications.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

Swift Concurrency

Design patterns

Performance tuning

Tools

SwiftUI

UIKit

Datadog

Job description

The News Product team at The New York Times is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer. You will work with our Native squad to lay foundations for satisfying native app experiences and deliver world-class journalism to millions of daily readers.

You will lead efforts to enhance quality, performance and long-term maintainability of the News app codebase. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, with an expectation to come into the office about 3 days per week.