iOS Engineer (Senior to Staff Level)
Senior iOS Engineer leading development of AI-driven features like personalized feeds, real-time media effects, and custom UIs for a social AI platform. Requires 8+ years experience with Swift, UIKit, graphics/animation, and API integrations.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Work with frameworks and technologies like UIKit, AVFoundation, Combine, Core Animation, and more.
- Lead development of new AI and media-driven features.
- Build and optimize video/audio pipelines, real-time media effects, and AI-powered visual features.
- Participate in Architecture meetings to help ensure our apps meet the highest quality standards.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and QA teams to deliver polished, scalable experiences.
- Take ownership of features — be part of a small team that ships an application to a large user base.
- Be part of an incredibly supportive team that values feedback, both positive and career-growth oriented.
What You’ll Bring
- 8+ years of experience developing iOS applications, or equivalent education.
- Fluency in Swift, UIKit, and Objective-C, with a strong foundation in custom graphics and animation frameworks.
- Ability to write readable, maintainable, documented, and thoroughly tested code.
- Experience developing integrations with RESTful APIs.
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows.
- Basic understanding of Figma — able to determine spacing and sizing; bonus if you can export icons and understand variables.
- Experience with video editing, real-time media effects, or AI-driven media features is a plus.
- Ability to effectively translate Product, UX, and UI requirements into code.
- Skilled at evaluating and communicating engineering solutions and trade-offs to teammates and potentially non-technical stakeholders.
- Can create scalable and reusable components that are flexible and modular.
- Attention to detail, motion, and animation.
Compensation
Anticipated annual base salary range: $180,000-$230,000. Factors include skills, experience, job scope, location, and market data.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and generous company equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered
- 42 days of paid time off (15 PTO, 10 sick, 15 holidays, 2 floating)
- Generous parental leave & fertility support
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Lifestyle spending account – $500/month
- Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
- One Medical membership, and more
Skills
Swift, Uikit, Objective-C, Avfoundation, Combine, Core Animation, REST APIs, Git, Figma
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