Senior Android Developer, Games Apps

The New York Times•New York, NY

5d•$140,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Android Developer to join its mobile platform engineering team and build games experiences for the flagship New York Times Games App. The role designs customer-focused features and creates platform capabilities and reusable building blocks. It contributes to technical direction and raises standards for performance, accessibility, and code quality. The developer works closely with product, design, and engineering partners to turn player needs into thoughtful experiences and help deliver and improve them at scale. The NYT Games team develops a suite of puzzles including the Crossword, Spelling Bee, Connections, Crossplay, and Wordle. This is a hybrid position based at the New York City headquarters, with an expectation of working from the office three or more days per week. The position reports to the Engineering Manager, Games App, and may involve limited on-call hours.

Requirements

At least 5 years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer.
At least 3 years of Android-focused experience.
Experience building user interfaces with complex animations and interactions.
At least 2 years of Kotlin experience, including unit testing, networking, data persistence, and UI development.
Demonstrated understanding of modern Android technologies, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Hilt/Dagger, and Room.
Experience designing clean app architectures using modern patterns such as MVVM, MVI, or Clean Architecture.
Experience translating product goals into quality, shippable code.
Knowledge of and enthusiasm for AI coding tools, especially in mobile development.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with backend engineers and understanding backend architecture.
Experience with high-traffic distributed systems.
Previous mobile game development experience operating games at scale in production.
Previous experience leading a team and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Architect and build scalable, maintainable features using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks.
Tech lead projects and contribute to app architecture decisions, code reviews, the technical roadmap, and delivery estimates.
Collaborate with product, PMO, design, data, QA, and engineering partners to guide product development and translate requirements into technical specifications.
Guide junior and mid-level developers, support their skill development, and encourage adoption of developer tools.
Promote high standards in Android development and participate in the Times' Android developer community.
Support and understand the value of journalistic independence and the mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.