Lead Apple Software Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

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Location: US - Remote

We are seeking a highly motivated lead engineer to join our Apple engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for an engineer with strong technical instincts and a collaborative spirit to work directly on the personalized streaming experience for our growing mobile customer base. As a senior technical contributor and team guide, you will help the team navigate complex problems in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. We pride ourselves on constantly evaluating and adapting the latest iOS and tvOS capabilities, and there's always something new to learn. The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who works well across teams, communicates clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and brings a methodical approach to building reliable, scalable mobile experiences. Experience working alongside data science, ML, and product teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:
• Explore, evaluate, and implement new technologies to optimize development efficiency and productivity.
• Evaluate opportunities to bring new technical features to mobile users.
• Develop technical requirements documentation based on product requirements.

Application Development:
• Technical development, debugging, and delivery of best-in-class tvOS and iOS native applications.

Mentorship:
• Promote good business practices in a positive and constructive manner.
• Foster a positive work environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate successfully with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deploy new features.
• Cultivate strong working relationships with colleagues, customers (internal and external), and company management.

Process Improvement and Ownership:
• Work closely with your team to ensure the timely delivery of features and improvements.
• Successfully manage multiple tasks and projects in a results-driven environment.
• Perform any other duties and responsibilities assigned by management.

Skills

Expertise in Apple Development:
• Excellent programming skills in Swift.
• In-depth knowledge of the iOS and tvOS platforms and deep knowledge with Xcode.
• Sound programming fundamentals: experience working with memory management, multi-threaded programming, animations, etc.
• Experience working on UI design for all size-classes.
• Experience in consuming RESTful APIs to connect with back-end services.

Architecture and Experimentation:
• Strong problem solving and architectural skills.
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and client-side experimentation – including experiment assignment, holdout groups, and measuring feature impact within an existing testing framework.
• Experience integrating ad-serving products into Apple applications – familiarity with ad surfaces, impression tracking, and working alongside ad tech teams in a production environment.
• Working familiarity with ML-driven product features – enough to collaborate skillfully with data science teams on API contracts, discuss what signals the client should capture, and reason about whether issues are a data, model, or rendering problem.

Leadership and Communication:
• Excellent interpersonal skills; able to work well with non-technical members of the development team.
• Ability to assist others in a technical capacity.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Basic Qualifications
• 7 years of Apple development experience.
• Acted as a key contributor to at least one publicly released native iPhone application.
• Experience working with Agile development processes.

Desired Qualifications
• BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Background supporting the integration of rich media assets, including video, into mobile properties.
• Experience building data-driven or server-driven UI – personalized feeds, ranked content surfaces, dynamic layouts, and the pagination, prefetching, and cache invalidation strategies that keep high-velocity content feeling fast and fresh.
• Experience working with entertainment, games, news, or sports-related properties preferred.

Bonus Skills (Nice To Have)
• Continuous Build & Test Automation experience.
• Understanding of streaming video and DRM concepts.
• Knowledge of Localization practices and concepts in Xcode.
• Experience with Swift Package Manager.