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Senior Engineering Manager, Games Mobile Apps

New York, NY💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$185,000🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a team of iOS and Android engineers to build and maintain the premier destination for digital puzzle games, including titles like Crossword, Spelling Bee, and Wordle.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, Mobile Games

Builds

iOS and Android mobile apps for NYT Games

Domain

Media & Entertainment / Mobile Development

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Strategic leadership for native mobile teams, iOS app architecture, Android roadmap planning, Cross-functional collaboration, Team coaching and mentoring, AI-assisted development tooling, Reusable platform capability design

Preferred skills

Leveraging AI tooling for complex mobile workflows, Partnering with web and backend engineers, Building reusable platform capabilities for multiple native teams

Technologies

Swift, Kotlin, AI coding tools

Responsibilities

Lead a team of iOS and Android engineers, Define and drive a multi-year technical strategy for the mobile platform, Develop people and teams through coaching and mentoring, Work with product owners and designers to deliver high quality mobile products, Work with native engineers to build reusable platform capabilities, Modernize the development lifecycle by integrating AI-assisted tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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