Android Engineer

The New York Times•New York, NY

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

The New York Times' mission is to seek the truth and help people understand the world, a principle central to their independent journalism and business strategy. Since 1851, this mission has extended to their mobile apps, which are progressive and innovative, bringing news, recipes, and games to subscribers. The mobile teams are looking for Android Engineers to enhance their apps. Opportunities include building engaging features for the flagship News app, maximizing subscriber value in the Growth Platform, applying native and hybrid development trends to the Games team, helping users discover recipes on the Cooking team, and building foundational technologies for all mobile teams on the App Platforms team. This is a hybrid role based at the New York City headquarters, reporting to the Mobile Engineering Manager and collaborating with various cross-functional professionals.

Requirements

2+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines
Knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer code review
Experience with the mobile app release process, build tools, and continuous integration
Knowledge of Android UI concepts (layouts, themes, styles, views) and Material Design guidelines
Experience with Agile software development practices
Understanding of dependency injection
Proven focus on app performance, quality, and responsiveness

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Android UI concepts (layouts, themes, styles, views) and Material Design guidelines
Experience working on a mobile platform team
Experience working with a distributed team and an understanding of how to make the most of asynchronous collaboration

Responsibilities

Build and ship Android features by enhancing existing code and creating new functionality from scratch
Write clean, maintainable Kotlin code using Jetpack Compose and Coroutines
Participate in code reviews and write unit tests; collaborate with QA to enable robust automated functional tests
Contribute to app architectural decisions, documentation, technical roadmap and timeline estimations
Integrate with internal NY Times services and external third-party APIs
Stay current on Android technologies, best practices, and AI tooling for mobile development
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.