Member of Technical Staff, iOS Engineer

About the role

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It provides a unified workspace for research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, alongside AI agents that automate reporting, draft content, audit readability, run competitive research, and continuously improve. As an iOS Engineer, you will build and own the native mobile experience that brings the AI Marketer to customers' pockets, working with design, backend, and product to ship a fast, polished app that gives marketers visibility into their AI presence anywhere. This is a foundational role setting the technical direction for iOS at Profound from the ground up. The position is on‑site in our NYC or SF office, with visa sponsorship available for qualified international candidates.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship new features for Profound's native iOS app, end to end
• Establish the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards for the iOS codebase
• Build fast, reliable interfaces for real‑time data, dashboards, and reporting on mobile
• Partner with backend engineers to design APIs that serve mobile use cases well
• Work closely with design to translate product requirements into polished, native experiences
• Own app performance, stability, and release quality, including crash rates and load times
• Implement push notifications, background refresh, and other native platform capabilities
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and App Store releases
• Write clean, well‑tested, maintainable Swift code
• Collaborate with product and customers to identify what mobile experiences matter most
• Stay current with Apple platform changes and adopt new APIs where they add real value
• Mentor future iOS hires as the team grows

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building and shipping native iOS applications
• Strong proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, with solid knowledge of UIKit
• Experience with iOS app architecture patterns, including state management and navigation
• Comfort working with REST APIs, JSON, and asynchronous networking
• Experience shipping apps through the App Store, including review, TestFlight, and release processes
• Familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and a strong sense of product craft
• Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools like Instruments
• Comfort working in a fast‑moving startup environment with shifting priorities
• Strong ownership mentality, from architecture decisions to shipped features
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across design, product, and backend
• Genuine excitement about AI and its impact on how marketing teams work
• Growth mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity and rapid change

Pay

The expected base salary range is $160,000 to $230,000 for NYC and SF locations; compensation may vary by location and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, qualifications, and location during the interview process.