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The New York Times

Android Engineer, Core News App

The New York Times, New York, New York, us, 10261


About the Role

Skills, Experience, Qualifications, If you have the right match for this opportunity, then make sure to apply today.The App Experience team at The New York Times is looking for an Android Engineer. In this role, you will work with our Native squad to lay the foundations for satisfying native app experiences that give our readers access to our world class journalism in a medium that is responsive and personal. You will work with designers, other mobile engineers, and web engineers, and more on a cross-functional team with experience supporting remote work.

This is an opportunity to use a wide variety of tools, ranging from Kotlin and Jetpack Compose to hybrid web technologies - whatever will best solve the problem at hand. You’ll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City Headquarters. You will report to the Engineering Manager, App Platforms.

Responsibilities:

Create and maintain features using Kotlin

Contribute to app architectural decisions and timeline estimations

Participate in technical discussions with backend developers and other owners of internal/external dependencies

Where applicable, you will integrate with broader New York Times Kotlin platform code, which may be at least partially written or have dependencies written in Java

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years of full-time experience as an Android Engineer

2+ years of Android Kotlin experience, including writing unit tests, and UI

Experience working with Agile software development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with coroutines and Jetpack Compose

Experience working with UI that adapts to different screen sizes

Familiarity with RESTful APIs

Experience with Benchmarking

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

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