Remote Senior Android Engineer

Summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to join their mobile team developing multiplayer games. The role involves designing, developing, testing new features using Kotlin, contributing to app architectural decisions, participating in technical discussions, working with various teams, promoting standards in Android development, ensuring app stability, and demonstrating commitment to the company's mission. The role can be based in New York City or fully remote within the US.

Requirements

• 5+ years full time experience as an Android Engineer
• Experience building robust 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, Dagger, and Room
• Experience translating product goals into quality shippable code

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test new features using Kotlin
• Contribute to app architectural decisions, code review, technical roadmap and timeline estimations
• Participate in technical discussions with engineers across multiple stacks and platforms
• Work with product, PMO, design, data, QA, and other engineers to guide product development
• Promote standards in Android development, and engage with the community of Android developers at the Times
• Ensure app stability by writing quality code and partnering with the QA team to test and fix bugs

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous mobile game development experience of running games at scale in production
• Experience working with backend engineers and solid understanding of backend architecture
• Experience dealing with high traffic distributed systems

Benefits

• 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
• The annual base pay range for this role is between $140,000 — $155,000 USD