The New York Times Company is hiring: Senior Engineering Manager, News App - iOS

New York, NY

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Independent journalism is at the heart of all we do. Our newsroom reports from nearly 160 countries, and our strategy centers on delivering journalism that readers value across print, digital, audio, and apps.

About the Role

The New York Times seeks a Senior Engineering Manager in the Subscriber Experiences Mission to support the team responsible for the award-winning News apps: where millions of readers go to understand the events shaping the world.

The News apps are the core of the NYT mobile experience. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead an engineering team directly building features in the News app and collaborate with other teams contributing to the News app. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who can lead a collaborative and inclusive team of engineers to deliver a performant, stable and engaging app experience.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Sr. Director, Engineering. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

About the Team:

• Responsible for building and maintaining the New York Times iOS News app, in concert with contributing teams
• An iOS team of about 10+ engineers responsible for iOS app development
• Builds app infrastructure and core features that highlight our journalism and offer gateways into our NYT product bundle
• Launches prototypes quickly to run experiments, scaling systems over time to balance consistency and velocity
• Ensures overall application architecture fits the business problem and quality standards now and in the future

Responsibilities:

• Manage a group of mobile developers responsible for building, releasing and maintaining the iOS News app and collaborating with dependent engineering teams
• Contribute to architecture decisions, technical roadmap and timeline estimations
• Collaborate with the Mobile Platforms team to implement best practices around core app architecture, development workflow and coding standards
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Data to prioritize and deliver features that drive subscriber growth
• Manage career development for engineers at various stages of their career growth
• Foster an inclusive and supportive culture within the News team and NYT engineering organization
• Define and drive observability and monitoring for the iOS News app
• Support and uphold the value of journalistic independence and the mission of seeking the truth

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams
• 4+ years of experience building complex and highly performant iOS apps
• Understanding of iOS best practices and ability to advocate for iOS engineers
• Experience working in complex product organizations, supporting stakeholders with diverse and sometimes conflicting technical and product requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with large legacy codebases
• Experience driving a culture of performance monitoring and observability
• Experience stewarding a codebase with contributors across multiple engineering teams

#LI-Hybrid

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

The annual base pay range for this role is between: $176,000 - $205,000 USD

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