Android Engineer, News App; SubX

Overview

The New York Times app has over a million weekly active users on the Android Platform and supports the New York Times mission of seeking the truth and helping educate the world. Even with all the other items grabbing peoples' attention, the natural human need to be informed, enriched and entertained remains strong, and we believe there's room for us to continue to improve and grow our app and increase our users' engagement with the New York Times.

We are looking for an Android developer to join the Subscriber Experience (SubX) Mission to work on the NYT app experience. The Android Engineer will work closely with backend developers, product, data and design team members. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Subscriber Experience. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

• You will 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.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr

• You will 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.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

• 2+ years of experience as an Android Engineer using Kotlin including writing unit tests, and UI
• Familiarity with Android app performance, quality and responsiveness
• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies
• Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team environment

• Experience using modern Android technologies such as Coroutines and Jetpack Compose
• Experience working with UI that adapts to different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Experience with Benchmarking

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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The annual base pay range for this role is between: $110,000 - $130,000 USD

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