About the Role

The New York Times is looking for an Android Engineer to join the Cooking apps team. NYT Cooking is dedicated to helping users discover and cook the world's best recipes. We are known for its collaborative and inclusive culture, valuing diversity and promoting personal growth.

You will work with our design, data, product, and editorial teams to prototype and develop features for our responsive website and mobile apps. This is an opportunity to use several tools, ranging from Kotlin and Jetpack Compose to hybrid web technologies - whatever will best solve the problem at hand.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City Headquarters. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, NYT Cooking.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain new features using Kotlin and other modern Android development tools and frameworks
• Work with product, design, data, QA, and other engineers to guide product development
• Collaborate with internal NYTimes services and external APIs
• 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 full-time experience as an Android Engineer
• 2 years of Android Kotlin experience, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence and UI
• Demonstrated understanding of Android design patterns, component life cycles, memory management and concurrency
• Some familiarity with Jetpack Compose and Coroutines

Preferred Qualifications:

This role will 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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