Senior Staff iOS Software Engineer, Developer Experience
TexasFull-TimeStaffiOS
What you'll do:
- Pioneer and lead technical vision, architecture, and standards for iOS Engineering.
- Implement robust, next-generation test automation and performance monitoring solutions.
- Explore and integrate cutting-edge technologies, such as AI, to reduce code review bottlenecks and enhance developer assistance.
- Identify and champion processes and tooling improvement opportunities at the engineering organization level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices.
- Lead architectural design and enable all engineers to understand system/application designs.
- Collaborate with Product Management and engineering across all disciplines to plan solutions for large features; eliminate barriers to scale through technology and process, and provide building blocks of world-class applications and services.
- Serve as the iOS Guild Lead, driving horizontal technical alignment and code standards across all teams.
- Own the mobile CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions & self-hosted runners), lead the transition to fully automated UI testing, and implement AI-driven workflow improvements.
Skills you have:
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
- Expert understanding of software design patterns to write clean, well-structured, idiomatic code leveraging the full power of a language.
- 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience; including experience in a high-growth startup.
- Deep experience with CI/CD for mobile and managing build hardware/runners.
- Proven experience leading technical guilds or driving organizational change (e.g., feature flag adoption, test automation) across multiple teams without direct managerial authority.
- Expert proficiency in Swift and the iOS ecosystem.
- Deep knowledge of GitHub Actions (including self-hosted runners) and UI Test Automation frameworks.
- Proficiency in applying AI/LLMs to engineering workflows. Experience with feature flagging strategies (e.g., LaunchDarkly) and internal tooling.
- Expert understanding of test automation techniques, data engineering, and security.
Who you are:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms with technical (UX, design, product management and across engineering teams) and non-technical stakeholders and work with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
- Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams
- Appreciation of simple design and a love to write clean, well-tested code - test-first or TDD approaches are a plus.
- Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and the ability to diagnose issues within the system.
- Ability to gather and define software requirements, considering multiple patterns and strategies to build efficient solutions.
- Ability to create solutions to problems under various constraints using novel algorithms and data structures.
- Understands company goals, and is able to develop technical solutions, vision, and strategy to advance the company's goals and strategy.
- Ability to act as a mentor across all squads and foster a culture of mentoring across teams by seeking out mentoring opportunities for others, and supporting others in their growth as mentors.
