iOS Engineer

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.

Requirements

• Strong intuition and deeply considered opinions about iOS app design and aesthetics.
• You’ve worked on some delightful, design-forward apps over the course of your career.
• Proven technical leader who has taken primary responsibility for shipping apps or major features to production multiple times.
• Passionate about shipping great products. You’re highly motivated by understanding what makes users tick and finding ways to delight them.
• Passionate about the complex engineering involved in building lightning-fast, ergonomic, and innovative iOS UI.
• Expert in eliminating latency in complex iOS apps; nothing— from the network to the architecture or the limitations of the iOS SDK— will get in the way of you cutting those few extra milliseconds off of an interaction.
• Always up to date on the latest iOS UI/UX design patterns; tuned into the Apple release cycle and always thinking about how the latest features can help the team produce an even more incredible experience.
• Lots of hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle of iOS apps: build trains, test strategy, and the latest UI architecture patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex or advanced ui that required you to step off the golden path of the SDK.
• Experience with real-time communications, including WebRTC, Websockets, audio/video codecs, compression protocols, etc.
• 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 a 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)
• Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options

Pay

Compensation Range: $175K - $280K

Schedule

Full-time Employee