Senior Android Developer, Games Apps

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About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

We're looking for a Senior Android Developer to join our mobile platform engineering team building games experiences for our flagship New York Times Games App. You'll help design features that delight our customers, and build capabilities and building blocks to ensure our team in delivery. You'll help shape technical direction while raising the bar for performance, accessibility, and code quality. Working with product, design, and engineering partners, you'll turn player needs into thoughtful experiences and help the team deliver and improve them at scale.

NYT Games is a collaborative team that values inclusion, diversity and personal growth. We combine product development with a world-class suite of puzzles including beloved titles such as the NYT Crossword, Spelling Bee, Connections, Crossplay and Wordle. Come help us on our journey to grow a world-class mobile platform, as we continue delivering delightful experiences to millions daily.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office 3+ days/week.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and build scalable, maintainable, and features using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks

- Tech Lead projects and contribute to app architectural decisions, code review, technical roadmap and delivery estimations

- Work with product, PMO, design, data, QA, and other engineers to guide product development and translate our requirements into technical specifications

- Be a technical guide to junior and mid-level developers, encouraging skill growth and adopting developer tools

- Promote best standards in Android development, and engage with the community of Android developers at the Times

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

- You will report to the Engineering Manager, Games App.

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years full time experience as a Software Engineer

- 3+ years of Android-focused experience

- Experience building user interfaces with complex animations and user interactions

- 2+ years of experience with Kotlin, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence and UI

- Demonstrated understanding of modern Android technologies such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Hilt/Dagger, and Room

- Experience designing clean app architectures using modern industry design patterns like MVVM, MVI, or Clean Architecture

- Experience translating product goals into quality shippable code

- Knowledgeable and passionate about AI coding tools especially with mobile development

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working with backend engineers and understanding of backend architecture

- Experience dealing with high traffic distributed systems

- Previous mobile game development experience running games at scale in production

- Previous experience leading the team and mentoring junior engineers

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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Compensation and Benefits For This Role:

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

The annual base pay range for this role is between: $140,000 — $160,000 USD
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