Senior iOS Engineer, Games

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About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join the Games Apps Team. Come help us create features that delight our customers!

NYT Games is behind the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Wordle, and more. We're a collaborative group that values inclusion, creativity, and building thoughtful, high-quality experiences.

This is a hybrid role based in NYC, typically in-office two days a week. You'll report to the Engineering Manager , NYT Games - Apps.

Responsibilities :

Design and develop secure, scalable iOS features in Swift

Bring a product mindset to collaboratively align technical solutions with product and long-term tech and mission vision

Collaborate with backend and cross-platform engineers to deliver cohesive, integrated features

Contribute to roadmap planning, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement of released features

Stay up-to-date on iOS best practices and bring new ideas to the team

Support a team culture grounded in NYT's values

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.

Basic Qualifications :

5+ years of iOS experience in Swift, including unit testing, networking, data persistence, and UI development

1+ years as a tech lead on complex apps

SwiftUI, UIKit, iOS design patterns, profiling, memory management, and multi-threading experience

Experience with REST / GraphQL, testing, SQLite, and dependency injection

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience translating product goals into quality, delivered features

Experience in mobile platform engineering

Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines for iOS

Experience in game development would be desirable, but not required.

Demonstrated enthusiasm for puzzle games, game-related editorial, and understanding of The New York Times' mission.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between :

$140,000 — $155,000 USD

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