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Staff Software Engineer (iOS)

Staff iOS Engineer leads architectural decisions, writes high-quality Swift/Objective-C code for media manipulation features, mentors team, and champions AI-assisted development at scale for a creative photography platform. Requires 5+ years iOS experience with media frameworks.

230k – 260k
Hybrid5+ YOEiOS Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead decision making on forward-thinking architectural decisions. Align technical choices with company goals, and be pragmatic enough to choose the faster path when the business demands it.
  • Lead by example: write clean, testable, maintainable Swift and Objective-C code. Push for rigorous testing, solid CI practices, and high standards across the codebase.
  • Mentor and elevate the team: guide engineers through tricky bugs, design decisions, and architectural trade-offs.
  • Drive code quality through PR reviews, pushing work toward completion in an encouraging way.
  • Champion AI-assisted development. You've used AI tools extensively in your own workflow and actively mentor others to adopt them.
  • Architect and implement performant, intuitive solutions for the interactive manipulation of images, video, and mixed media, enabling rich creative expression on mobile devices.
  • Contribute to the release process: help manage and improve our release cadence, including feature flagging, release management best practices.
  • Collaborate across the organization: work closely with Product, Design, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience building iOS applications in Swift and/or Objective-C
  • Experience owning projects end-to-end from initial prototypes to customer roll out
  • Professional experience working on mobile consumer applications at scale
  • Experience working with media manipulation frameworks on iOS such as AVFoundation, Core Image/Video/Audio, and Metal
  • Experience collaborating with other engineers: iOS, Android, server, and web
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team-wide code quality
  • Experience with feature flagging, release management, and observability tools (Datadog, Crashlytics, etc.)
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with React Native
  • Experience with OpenGL, 3D rendering, and matrix-based transformations.
  • Experience integrating third-party tools for media manipulation.
  • Familiarity with Android to facilitate cross-platform design discussions.

Compensation

Base salary range: $230,000 - $260,000 plus equity and discretionary bonuses.

Skills

SwiftObjective-CiOSAvfoundationCore ImageMetalDatadogCrashlyticsReact NativeOpenglFeature FlaggingCI/CDAI Tools

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