Job Description

NBC News Digital is creating the digital future for one of the world’s best-known and most trusted news organizations. Our Digital Technology organization is at the center of building and improving a suite of digital products including user experiences across web, mobile apps, OTT devices, storytelling tools and a platform to distribute that content to hundreds of millions of users. Our brands include NBC News, Today, and Start TODAY.

The Principal Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor with broad technical and organizational impact. This role blends deep hands-on iOS expertise with strategic leadership, helping drive technical direction across mobile platforms and shared systems within NBC News Digital.

As a Principal Engineer, you will own and shepherd large, complex initiatives end-to-end, influence architectural decisions across teams, and serve as a trusted technical advisor for product and engineering leadership. You will actively mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and ensure our iOS applications deliver a high-quality, well-tested, scalable, and reliable experience for our audiences.

This role reports into the Senior Engineering Manager – iOS.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Technical Direction

• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to help define technical strategy, roadmap tradeoffs, and long-term vision for iOS platforms
• Own and influence the end-to-end user experience for major initiatives, tying technical decisions back to product goals, OKRs, and customer impact
• Lead discussions and consensus-building around architectural decisions, focusing on business objectives and key results
• Clearly communicate technical tradeoffs and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Technical Execution

• Define and uphold the technical bar for iOS by shaping architectural patterns, quality standards, and engineering practices that scale across teams and platforms
• Drive and align major architectural decisions across systems by leading technical strategy discussions, authoring and reviewing tech discoveries and RFCs, and evaluating technologies with long-term business impact
• Establish durable, scalable delivery through shared frameworks, tooling, and testing strategies, enabling teams to ship high-quality, reliable releases with confidence

Mentorship, Collaboration & Communication

• Actively coach and mentor engineers across levels, helping grow technical skills and strategic thinking
• Guide engineers on writing effective, maintainable unit and UI tests and on designing systems that are easy to test
• Collaborate with senior engineers across teams to define, document, and promote shared engineering best practices
• Share knowledge broadly to avoid silos, including documentation, demos, and technical forums

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in iOS, Swift, and large-scale consumer applications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience delivering and owning large-scale, high-traffic consumer applications that have been published on the App Store
• Proven ability to lead architecture and technical direction across multiple teams and complex systems
• Strong foundation in mobile architecture, networking, concurrency, performance optimization, and backend integration (HTTP, REST, JSON/XML)
• Extensive experience with automated testing on iOS, including unit, UI, and CI-integrated test suites
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and collaborate effectively in agile, cross-functional environments

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience with video-on-demand and/or live/linear video playback on iOS
• Experience building and operating subscription-based products, including in-app purchasing workflows
• Experience leveraging AI to improve day-to-day workflows

Additional Requirements:

Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.

Salary range: $185,000 - $215,000 (bonus eligible)

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.