Sr. iOS Engineer

Sr. iOS Engineer (Founding Mobile Lead)

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay: $180k - $220k Base + Equity

Overview
This is a rare opportunity to join a highgrowth, consumer marketplace business at a pivotal moment and build a native iOS app from the ground up. Mobile is becoming central to the company's next phase of growth, and this role will play a defining part in shaping the product experience, engineering standards, and longterm mobile strategy.
The organisation has strong productmarket fit, meaningful scale, and clear momentum, but remains lean enough that one exceptional iOS engineer can have outsized impact across architecture, user experience, and technical direction. This is a foundinglevel mobile role with real ownership, influence, and visibility.

Responsibilities
Own the native iOS application endtoend across core customer journeys including search, discovery, booking, account, and postbooking
Design and define the iOS app architecture, engineering standards, and quality bar from the ground up
Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver polished, intuitive, highquality mobile experiences
Collaborate with Backend engineers to shape API contracts that prioritise performance, resilience, and longterm scalability
Establish testing strategies, release processes, and observability to ensure reliability and performance at scale
Drive high standards for craftsmanship, performance, and engineering judgement across mobile
Influence product direction and help define the longterm mobile strategy
Lay the technical foundation for building and scaling an iOS team over time
MustHave Qualifications

Seniorlevel engineering experience building highquality, consumerfacing products
Strong computer science fundamentals; CS degree from a reputable institution preferred
Experience working in highbar engineering organisations with strong product and quality standards
Handson experience with Swift and native iOS development (depth can vary)
Strong product mindset and ability to reason about user experience, performance, and tradeoffs
Ability to operate with high ownership in ambiguous, earlystage or evolving environments