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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 News 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 seeking a Manager, Software Development to lead the engineering team responsible for our iOS app, the foundation for personalization, ads, sections, articles, App Store subscription management, analytics, audio, video and more, and one of The Post’s most important channels for reader engagement. This role provides dedicated people and delivery leadership for the team while partnering closely with Android, Staff Engineering, Product, and shared engineering teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences quickly and predictably.
This is a hands-on engineering management role. The Manager, Software Development will set priorities and assignments, develop engineers, remove blockers, identify delivery risks early, and establish clear accountability for delivering approved work to readers, while remaining close enough to the technology to guide difficult engineering decisions. The manager is expected to write code, build prototypes, and review pull requests on a regular basis, and will partner with Staff Engineers and feature leads to verify progress, identify misalignment, and follow work through to release.
The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with deep iOS engineering knowledge, sound technical judgment, and a disciplined approach to execution. This manager will help the team ship faster while maintaining the architecture, performance, reliability, quality, and technical health readers expect from The Washington Post’s flagship mobile experience. The role is data-driven: priorities, estimates, improvements, and results are tracked against agreed baselines and measured by evidence, such as time to users, commitments met, blocker resolution time, and app stability and performance, not by activity or opinion.
What Motivates You
You want to help bring The Washington Post’s journalism to readers through high-quality mobile experiences.
You measure success by the value delivered to users and how quickly it reaches them.
You develop engineers through direct feedback and clear expectations, and you judge your impact by their growth.
You care about predictable execution. You know the real remaining work, test whether estimates and status reports are credible, and surface risk before it becomes a missed commitment.
You want to stay technically hands-on, writing code, prototyping, and reviewing pull requests to solve problems, evaluate approaches, and stay connected to the systems your team builds.
You care deeply about mobile architecture, application quality, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
You enjoy removing blockers and working across engineering and product teams to move complex work forward, while leaving ownership with the people who hold it.
You hold yourself to the standard you set for others: you own your commitments, communicate risk early, and confirm that issues are closed.
You look for wasted effort and ways to improve how teams work, and you measure whether those improvements create value.
You enjoy building AI agents and automation that solve real mobile engineering problems, and you care about proving that they work and that people actually use them.
You stay current on the iOS ecosystem, including new Apple platform releases, Swift language and concurrency changes, and AI-assisted development in Xcode,…