Junior iOS Developer

Role Description

We're hiring a Junior iOS Developer to help build the mobile experience for collectors to use every day from managing their collections, connecting with the community, and opening Instapacks.

• Work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship features across our iOS app.
• This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone early in their career who already knows how to build in Swift and SwiftUI, has worked with GraphQL, and wants to grow quickly inside a fast-moving startup.
• You won't be handed endless tickets in a giant backlog; you'll work on real product problems, learn from one of the leading mobile engineers, and see your work go directly into the hands of passionate collectors.
• If you love trading cards or collector communities, and want to level up fast, this is a role for you.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: Get the app running locally, understand the core product flows, and ship your first meaningful fixes or small features.
• By day 90: Regularly ship iOS work with support from the CTO and mobile lead; take a well-scoped feature or improvement, ask the right questions, implement it cleanly, test it, and get it into production.
• By the end of year one: Become a reliable iOS contributor across some of the most important parts of the product; ship meaningful improvements to the collector experience, grow your Swift and SwiftUI craft, and earn ownership over increasingly important features.

What You'll Do

• Build and improve iOS features across Rare Candy's collector-facing product.
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers to shape clean, usable client-server contracts.
• Fix bugs, improve polish, and raise the quality bar for the iOS app.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into shipped experiences.
• Learn quickly, ask good questions, and communicate clearly when something is blocked, unclear, or ready for review.

You Might Be a Fit If

• Have around 3 years of iOS development experience and have shipped real features in a production app or serious side project.
• Comfortable building with Swift and SwiftUI.
• Have worked with GraphQL, or have enough API experience to ramp quickly.
• Care about product quality, UI polish, and the little details that make an app feel good.
• Early in your career but serious about getting better; want feedback, mentorship, and real responsibility.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup where priorities can shift and the best answer is often “figure it out, then make it better.”
• Know the trading-card or collector world; collect, play, rip packs, follow the market, or have real fluency in a similar collectible space.

What You'll Need to Thrive Here

• Expected to take ownership of your role at Rare Candy and drive your own growth with support, context, and mentorship along the way.
• The systems are still evolving, the team is small, and your work will matter immediately; you'll need to be curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable learning by doing.
• If you like mobile product craft, collector communities, and the idea of building tools you would actually want to use yourself, you'll do great here.

Why Join Us Now

• Work on features collectors actually care about and are using every day.
• Get real ownership early in your career while learning directly from experienced engineering leadership.
• Join a high-trust, low-ego team that ships fast, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about the hobby.
• Competitive startup comp, meaningful equity upside, and a salary range of $100,000-$120,000.
• Full benefits: health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and a wellness stipend.
• A monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards, because we hire people who love this hobby.

How to Apply

Apply through our Ashby posting and answer these:

• Describe an iOS feature you built. What did you own, what technical choices did you make, and what was the result?
• Explain a bug you debugged. What made it tricky, how did you track it down, and what did you learn?
• What trading-card or collector communities do you understand best? Tell us your favorite card, set, format, deck, rip, or collector niche.

Rare Candy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate individuality, from Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker pros, and are committed to building an inclusive team.