Staff iOS Engineer - News Product

New York, NY · USD 162,000-195,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

The News Product team at The New York Times is looking for a Staff iOS Engineer to work with the Native squad and lay foundations for satisfying native app experiences.
You will deliver world-class journalism to millions of daily readers in a responsive and performant medium while enhancing the quality, performance, and long-term maintainability of the News app codebase.

You will lead the design and implementation of core architectures, shared frameworks, and infrastructure using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit that accelerate our feature teams.
You will work with your team to build solutions that are scalable, maintainable and reliable.
You will guide app-wide architectural decisions, shape the long-term technical roadmap, and set engineering standards for the iOS platform.
You will lead technical understanding, collaborating with backend engineers, web teams, and other internal dependency owners.
You will help promote standards in iOS and Swift delivery, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times.
You will lead programs to help the quality, performance and maintainability of the News app codebase.
You will mentor engineers and contribute to/participate in Communities of Practice.
Where applicable, you will integrate with broader New York Times Swift platform code.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

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.