Founding iOS Engineer

Founding iOS Engineer - New York (4 days onsite) - Competitive Salary + Equity + Opportunity to with a Series B Venture-Backed 10-year-old Start-Up!


This well-established Series B start-up are seeking an experienced iOS Engineer to own the iOS function within the business!


This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced iOS Engineer to take the next step into a challenging position with a company offering significant growth potential.


About the Company:


Founded about a decade ago, they are now one the most well-known companies in their space - you may have even used them yourself!


They raised $30m+ in their Series B funding round in 2022.


They have roughly 100 employees in total and are continuing to grow steadily.


Everything they do is entrenched in achieving engineering excellence.


They have demonstrated product-market fit and they are approaching profitability, but the team is still lean, so an engineer joining now has outsized ownership, visibility across the business, and real influence over what they build next.


About the Founding iOS Engineer Vacancy:


The Founding iOS Engineer will be building the next iteration Native iOS experience from scratch.


This is a great opportunity to specify the technological direction, user experience, engineering standards, and architecture of a new native iOS app at a firm with significant product complexity, real scale, and tremendous momentum.


They are not looking for a person to just implement tickets, rather they need an engineer with a product mindset, engineering prowess, high standards when it comes to craft - in other words they need someone to help them define what mobile should be at the company for years to come.


Working closely with other tech teams (Product, Design, Back-End, Data) and the company leadership team.


Everything from architecture and developer experience to app speed, dependability, analytics, and release quality will be in your complete control.


Additionally, you will contribute to the development of the iOS team and engineering culture around you as well as their larger mobile app strategy.


Your Tasks:


• Own the iOS app end-to-end across core marketplace flows


• Create a top-notch native iOS codebase from scratch, taking into account CI/CD, architecture, state management, networking, observability, testing strategy, and release procedures.


• Collaborate closely with Product and Design to create mobile experiences that are user-friendly, polished, reliable, and meticulously detailed.


• Help define their mobile app strategy, including where mobile should lead, how it should differentiate from web, and where it can create the most leverage for the business.


Ideal Requirements for the Founding iOS Engineer Vacancy:


iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit


Working in Native mobile environments


Testing: XCTest, UI testing, CI/CD pipelines


• Several years building production iOS applications with meaningful consumer-facing scale, quality, and complexity.


• Strong command of Swift and modern iOS development patterns.


• Experience building polished native experiences with strong attention to performance, usability, animation, responsiveness, and edge cases.


• You have led a sizable iOS codebase and had an impact on architectural choices.


• You care deeply about product quality and can translate complex states and workflows into simple, elegant user experiences.


• You feel at ease collaborating closely with backend engineers on systems tradeoffs, data contracts, and APIs.


• You are energized by zero-to-one work and want real ownership, not a narrow lane.


• Ideally, you've worked on high-quality consumer products at top engineering organizations or elite startups where the bar for craft and execution is exceptionally high.


Apply to the Role:


Roles like these are snapped up very quickly, so act now if you do not want to miss out! Reply to this advert or email your CV to View email address on click.appcast.io