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.
Responsibilities: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.
Basic Qualifications: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
Preferred Qualifications: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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