Jobs and Careers

Software Engineer, iOS App Development

Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Jul 2025

💰 $164,600/yr($98,800/yr – $164,600/yr)

About the role

Join the future of news

We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

About Our Team

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning Newsroom and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role Matters

The Washington Post is looking for a Software Engineer to support our flagship apps engineering team. Under general supervision, you will perform technical analysis, design and development or enhancement of iOS applications and play an integral role in helping deliver increasingly smarter mobile apps to our users. You will participate in all facets of the agile development process and will have the opportunity to contribute to products that will be used by millions of people. We are looking for someone with strong interest in all things mobile and a passion for delivering high quality, solid applications.

What Motivates You

You want to help bring our award-winning journalism to people every day.
You are passionate about learning mobile development, growing your skills, and delivering high-quality products.
You have opinions about leveraging the latest technology from Apple and other solution providers to enhance the news-reading experience.
You enjoy collaborating with colleagues across disciplines to solve problems and deliver new functionality.
You have opinions about what makes for a good native app experience.
You enjoy breaking down complicated problems into distinct workable pieces.

How You'll Support The Mission

Design and develop advanced applications for iOS and related platforms.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API contracts, design and ship new features.
Design high-level mobile solutions to meet product requirements and following established development methodologies and standards.
Understand the complexities of and help integrate different third-party SDKs
Identify, troubleshoot, and solve complex problems
Participate in agile software development practices and peer/code reviews.
Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
Stay on top of latest technologies/ mobile trends and recommend appropriate design solutions.

The Skills and Experience You Bring

It’s okay to not meet 100% of these requirements. We’re primarily looking for people who meet some of these requirements and are motivated to learn new technologies and expand their skill set.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience.
3+ years of experience with the iOS SDK required; prior experience in a similar role preferred.
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, operating systems, algorithms, data structure, design principles.
Excellent verbal/written communication and collaboration skills.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Experience working with or prototyping with Apple SDKs
Experience with Swift.
Experience with Version Control principles, preferably using Git and Pull Requests
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Experience with testing and quality assurance practices including unit testing and code documentation.