Job Description

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a Staff Android Engineer to support important moments in the subscriber journey across our suite of apps, including News, Cooking, and Games. 

Job Description

The GMAX (Growth Mobile Applications eXperience) team at The New York Times is looking for a Staff Android Software Engineer. The GMAX 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. When you join GMAX you'll be part of an engineering organization that values transparency and openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement. We are a distributed team with folks from across the country working together; we maintain core East Coast hours of 10am-4pm and are remote-friendly. You'll report to the GMAX Mobile Engineering Manager and be on a team with native mobile engineers, QA, product, project, data, and design.

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!

Have extensive experience working in Kotlin, setting up ab tests, implementing analytics, and working with in-app purchases and subscription functionality.

Understand Android architectural patterns such as MVP, MVC and MVVM

You embrace challenges, are always learning, and eager to bring others along in learning. We are utilizing Jetpack Compose and Coroutines for feature development.

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

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

Responsibilities:

You will design, develop and test new features by updating existing code, as well as from the ground up

You will actively 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 cross-functionally 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

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years professional software development experience working with Android (Kotlin)

Experience working with Agile software development methodologies

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 Android app performance, quality and responsiveness.

Knowledge of layouts, themes, styles, views and other Android UI concepts especially pertaining to Material Design Guidelines

You adhere to best practices for developing Android applications that target multiple devices and platform versions

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.

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