Staff iOS Engineer (USA)

Role overview

Staff iOS Engineer (senior, hands-on) to lead the evolution of Franki’s iOS mobile platform and shape the technical direction. You’ll combine architectural leadership, excellent Swift engineering, and mentorship to deliver scalable, maintainable, and performant iOS applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and architecture for the iOS platform, ensuring scalability, modularization, and maintainability
• Build and deliver features in Swift with clean, testable, and well-documented code
• Mentor engineers: drive code reviews, foster technical excellence, and share knowledge
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Firebase App Distribution, and Fastlane
• Expand testing automation with unit, UI, and integration test coverage
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend to deliver user-first, high-performance mobile experiences
• Adopt and integrate new iOS frameworks/tools to improve performance and development speed
• Monitor and optimize app performance using Firebase Crashlytics and analytics data
• Champion technical best practices and contribute to modernizing the mobile architecture

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional iOS development, including leadership/mentorship experience
• Expert-level Swift and strong knowledge of iOS architecture patterns
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale modularized apps (multi-module structures)
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Firebase App Distribution, Fastlane
• Background in unit testing, UI testing, and automated build workflows
• Familiarity with Firebase Crashlytics, performance monitoring, and release processes
• Passion for elegant, maintainable code and seamless user experiences
• Excellent communication and collaboration; focus on knowledge sharing and problem solving

Nice to have

• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience collaborating with cross-time-zone teams

Compensation / work setup

• Remote role with semi-flexible scheduling and collaboration across distributed teams
• Competitive pay aligned with experience and market benchmarks

Pay

• $175,000 - $200,000 USD per year (California)