About the Role\n\nThe New York Times is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join the mobile team developing multiplayer Games. You'll join a team with native mobile engineers, backend engineers, QA, product, project, data, and design and report to the Engineering Manager of the team.\n\nOur Android apps are written in Kotlin, backend APIs are written in Go, web front ends use React.\n\nNYT 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, and Wordle. Our Games app won an Apple Design Award in “Delight and Fun” Category which is a reflection of tremendous work the current team has put to modernize the app using the latest tech.\n\nThis role can be based in our New York City headquarters or fully remote in the US.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Design, develop, and test new features using Kotlin\n\n* Contribute to app architectural decisions, code review, technical roadmap and timeline estimations\n\n* Participate in technical discussions with engineers across multiple stacks and platforms\n\n* Work with product, PMO, design, data, QA, and other engineers to guide product development\n\n* Promote standards in Android development, and engage with the community of Android developers at the Times\n\n* Ensure app stability by writing quality code and partnering with the QA team to test and fix bugs\n\n* 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.\n\n\n\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\n\n* 5+ years full time experience as an Android Engineer\n\n* Experience building robust user interfaces with complex animations and user interactions\n\n* 2+ years of experience with Kotlin, including writing unit tests, networking, data persistence and UI\n\n* Demonstrated understanding of modern Android technologies such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Dagger, and Room\n\n* Experience translating product goals into quality shippable code\n\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n\n\n* Previous mobile game development experience of running games at scale in production\n\n* Experience working with backend engineers and solid understanding of backend architecture\n\n* Experience dealing with high traffic distributed systems \n\n\n\n\nThis 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.\n\n#LI-Remote\nREQ-017014 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile, Senior, Android, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nWho are Tide:\n\nAt Tide, we’re on a mission to save businesses time and money. We’re the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest-growing FinTechs in the UK. Using the latest tech, we design solutions with SMEs in mind and our member-driven financial platform is  transforming the business banking market. Not only do we offer our members business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly connected admin tools for businesses. \n\nTide is about doing what you love. We’re looking for someone to join us on our exciting scale up journey and be a part of something special. We are wanting passionate Tideans to drive innovation and help build a best-in-class platform to support our members. You will be comfortable in ambiguous situations and will be able to navigate the evolving FinTech environment. Imagine shaping how millions of Tide members discover and engage with business banking platforms and building this on a global scale.\n\nWhat we’re looking for:\n\nAs a Senior Engineer at Tide you will be working on new and existing projects for our Payments area. We have a long roadmap ahead of us, with exciting new features and you’ll be solving interesting problems while collaborating with the rest of the Tide team to achieve our mission to save small and medium businesses time and money.\n\nWith our expanding business, we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!\n\nTechnology and our people are what make Tide possible. We work in autonomous teams, self-organise, discuss technical challenges, and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices.\n\nOn the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS, Kafka) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL. Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. The Cloud Engineering team provides us with vital infrastructure and DevOps support on the cloud.\n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer you’ll be:\n\n\nWorking on projects for the Payment area solving interesting challenges and problems that will save small business time and money globally.\n\nYou will be the person who less experienced engineers turn to when seeking advice and the one that ensures that things get done with a professional seal of quality.\n\nJoining one of our expanding multidisciplinary agile teams, you will work closely with product owners, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.\n\nYou will ideally join our backend community of practices and your input on how to improve processes and maintain a high quality across the backend will be very welcomed. Career progression is as important to us as it is for you!\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes you a great fit:\n\n\nHave experience (5+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer).\n\nHave sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).\n\nHave experience with microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.\n\nHave experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions.\n\nDemonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software.\n\nAre willing to own your code and your team’s processes from development to production.\n\nHave experience with relational databases.\n\nAre comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.\n\nHave the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.\n\nHave experience integrating to third parties.\n\nHave exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment.\n\nHave experience leading and coaching of technical staff.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhat you’ll get in return: \n\nMake work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you’ll get:\n\n\n* Competitive salary \n\n* Self & Family Health Insurance\n\n* Term & Life Insurance\n\n* OPD Benefits\n\n* Mental wellbeing through Plumm\n\n* Learning & Development Budget\n\n* WFH Setup allowance\n\n* 25 Annual leaves\n\n* Family & Friendly Leaves\n\n\n\n\nTidean Ways of Working \n\nAt Tide, we’re Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we’re One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.\n\nTide is a place for everyone\n\nAt Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We believe it’s what makes us awesome at solving problems! We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.\n\n  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Angular, Mobile, Senior, Android, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBengaluru, Remote