Founding iOS Engineer

Founding iOS Engineer

As a founding iOS engineer at Overtone, you'll build the consumer app at the center of a new kind of dating service, one built around real-time voice, AI-driven insight, and trust. You'll own iOS at Overtone end to end: architecture, craft, performance, and direction. You'll partner closely with product, design, and engineering to ship a voice-first app that feels native, intentional, and alive.

What You'll Do

• Build and own the Overtone iOS app, the surface where every dater experiences our voice-first, AI-driven product, on a team that holds craft to an extremely high bar.
• Partner closely with product, design, and engineering to ship complex, voice-led experiences that feel effortless to use.
• Set the culture for iOS engineering at Overtone: architecture, build and release discipline, code quality, and the playbook for moving from prototype to production.
• Shape mobile strategy as we scale the team, the platform, and the company.

Who You Are

• Strong intuition and deeply considered opinions about iOS app design and aesthetics. You've worked on design-forward apps that people noticed.
• Proven technical leader who has shipped iOS apps or major features to production multiple times, including navigating App Store review and release pipelines.
• Passionate about UI, specifically the engineering involved in building lightning-fast, ergonomic, and innovative interfaces on iOS.
• Expert at eliminating latency, particularly across real-time, voice, and AI-driven interactions. Nothing gets in the way of you finding those extra milliseconds.
• Tuned in to the Apple release cycle and modern iOS UI/UX patterns, always thinking about how the newest platform features unlock better product experiences.
• Deep hands-on experience across the full iOS lifecycle: architecture, build trains, test strategy, TestFlight, push notifications, and modern UI architecture patterns.
• High judgment on performance, security, and reliability in consumer products where users share deeply personal information.
• 6+ years of experience building beautiful and delightful iOS applications.
• 3+ years of experience owning the end-to-end of a production iOS app, from architect, to release manager, to design-engineer.

Nice to have:

• Real-time communications: WebRTC, WebSockets, audio codecs, streaming audio protocols.
• LLM and AI integration: experience bringing AI consumer features to life on the client.
• Complex UI: experience building interfaces that required stepping off the SDK's golden path.
• On-device ML, Metal, or other graphics/shader work.
• Open-source contributions to iOS projects, or a strong personal portfolio of iOS work.
• Early-stage startup experience, or background in a dating or social product.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary of $200k to $250k. This position will receive meaningful stock options with considerable upside potential. We provide standard benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, etc.

Our Core Qualities

Curiosity: You seek to understand before you decide. You ask thoughtful questions, test assumptions, and stay open to changing your mind as new information emerges.

Craft: You care deeply about quality and coherence. You simplify complexity, exercise good judgment, and take pride in work that feels intentional, thoughtful, and well-made.

Collaboration: You engage with others honestly and generatively. You challenge ideas with respect, listen deeply, and help synthesize perspectives into clearer, better outcomes.

Care: You take responsibility for people and outcomes. You act with integrity, follow through on commitments, and protect trust—with users, teammates, and the work itself.

About Overtone

Overtone, led by the founder and former CEO of Hinge, is building a new kind of dating service – one that cuts through the noise and helps daters find someone who truly resonates. We're building a team who are excited to work together in person in our NYC office.