Staff iOS Software Engineer, GMAX

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The New York Times is looking for a Staff iOS engineer to support important moments in the subscriber journey.

The GMAX (Growth Mobile Applications eXperience) team’s mission is to grow NYT’s subscriber footprint by developing an in-app customer journey and delivering unique value in the NYT apps ( NYT News, Cooking, Games and Audio) . When you join GMAX you’ll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency, openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement.

Who we’re looking for

As a staff engineer on the GMAX team, you will be instrumental in driving our technical strategy to a more scalable, maintainable, and performant architecture through collaboration with cross functional partners and external company teams.

Don't hesitate if you don't hit everything in this job description. If you’re a good human with related experience, we want to hear from you!

You’ll be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have experience working in Swift, setting up A/B tests, implementing analytics, and working with in-app purchases

• Have an understanding of iOS design patterns and enjoy working with SwiftUI

• Embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and are always learning

• Advocate for unit and UI testing, and want to help other engineers level up their testing skills

• Enjoy working with a distributed team and understand how to make the most of asynchronous collaboration.

• Provided technical mentorship to developer and non-developer team members

• Enjoy collaboration with others on a technical team, have a good product sense, and the vision to translate product goals into quality code.

• Lead technical projects from brainstorming through delivery

• Experience building libraries that can be used by multiple applications

Your Responsibilities:

• You will develop and test new and update existing features

• You will participate in code reviews, likely reviewing more code than contributing

• You will write unit tests, and work with QA to ensure functional automated tests can be written

• You will work closely with product, project, design, data, QA and other engineers to guide product development

• You will collaborate with internal NYTimes services, as well as external APIs

• You will optimize the platform to ensure high performance by writing quality code and partnering with QA team to test and fix bugs

• You will mentor other engineers and help them develop the skills to grow in their careers

• You will create and maintain features using Swift.

• You will participate in our technical discussions on developing product features.

• You will help promote standards in Swift development and delivery, and engage with the community of iOS developers at the Times.

• Where applicable, you will integrate with broader New York Times iOS platform code, which may be at least partially written or have dependencies written in Objective-C.

Desired experience:

• 5+ years professional software development experience working with iOS (Swift primarily)

• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies

• Deep knowledge of payments, subscriptions, and managing in-app purchases with Storekit 1 and Storekit 2.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Degree with a focus on software engineering, analytics, data science

• Interest in working as part of a distributed team and using collaboration tools

• Extensive knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer review

• Familiarity with build tools and continuous integration

• Strong understanding of dependency injection

• You should care deeply about iOS app performance, quality and responsiveness.

This role may require limited on-call hours. An on-call schedule will be determined when you join, taking into account team size and other variables.

Culture and Benefits

• We are committed to career development, supported by a formal mentoring program, tuition reimbursement ($8000 annually), a conference budget, and 20% of work time to focus on learning. We have frequent panel discussions and talks through a variety of CoPs and ERGs.

• We believe diversity fuels innovation and creativity, and we have a variety of employee groups dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• We run a Maker Week event once a year, where cross functional peers come together to work on compelling, creative, self-driven projects.

• We provide great health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families

• We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.

• We offer a great parental leave policy, which was recently expanded in response to employee feedback.

• We are a New York- based engineering organization with a remote-friendly workplace that includes engineers around the world.

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