iOS Engineer
Builds and leads development of a standalone iOS companion app for voice agents, focusing on design-forward, low-latency UI and complex features. Ships production apps with expertise in modern iOS patterns, real-time comms, and performance optimization.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build Sesame's standalone companion app — the foundation for a new consumer product category — on a team that highly values craft and quality.
- Work with multiple teams across engineering, design, and product to ship complex projects that delight users.
- Help build the iOS team at Sesame by providing leadership on best practices and modern iOS app design.
- Work together with iOS, Android, and web engineers to define the mobile and web strategy for Sesame moving forward.
Required Qualifications
- Strong intuition and deeply considered opinions about iOS app design and aesthetics.
- Worked on delightful, design-forward apps.
- Proven technical leader who has taken primary responsibility for shipping apps or major features to production multiple times.
- Passionate about shipping great products and understanding users.
- Passionate about complex engineering for lightning-fast, ergonomic, and innovative iOS UI.
- Expert in eliminating latency in complex iOS apps.
- Always up to date on the latest iOS UI/UX design patterns.
- Lots of hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle of iOS apps: build trains, test strategy, and latest UI architecture patterns.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building complex or advanced UI that required stepping off the golden path of the SDK.
- Experience with real-time communications, including WebRTC, Websockets, audio/video codecs, compression protocols.
- Expertise in managing battery drain in complex applications, including media or graphics-intensive applications.
- Experience integrating BLE peripherals on iOS.
- Metal or other graphics/shader experience.
- Contributions to open-source iOS projects or strong personal portfolio of iOS applications.
- Experience building AI consumer products.
Benefits
- 401(k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Competitive stock options
Skills
Swift, Ios Sdk, Uikit, SwiftUI, Webrtc, WebSockets, Ble, Metal, Core Animation, Xcode
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