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

Overview

New York, NY – The New York Times seeks a Senior Engineering Manager in the Subscriber Experiences Mission to lead an engineering team building features in the News iOS app and collaborate with other teams to deliver a performant, stable and engaging app experience.

This is a hybrid role based in New York City headquarters, reporting to the Sr. Director, Engineering. Typical in-office days are two per week.

About the Team

• Responsible for building and maintaining the New York Times iOS News app, in collaboration with contributing teams
• An iOS team of 10+ engineers focused on iOS app development
• Builds infrastructure and core features highlighting NYT journalism and gateways to NYT products
• Launches prototypes quickly to run experiments and scale systems over time
• Ensures architecture fits business needs and quality standards for now and 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
• Partner with Product, Design and Data to prioritize and deliver features that impact subscriber growth goals
• Support career development for engineers at various stages
• Foster an inclusive and supportive culture within the News team and NYT engineering
• Define and drive observability and monitoring for the iOS News app
• Uphold the value of journalistic independence and commitment to the mission

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing mobile engineering teams
• 4+ years of experience building complex and highly performant iOS apps
• Strong understanding of iOS best practices and advocacy for iOS engineers
• Experience in complex product organizations, aligning stakeholders with diverse 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 teams

Compensation & Benefits

The annual base pay range for this role is $176,000 – $205,000 USD.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We provide reasonable accommodations as required by law and information for applicants about privacy practices is available on the NYT careers site.

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