Senior iOS Engineer, Neighborhoods
The Role
Lauded for enabling anyone to take payments and now expanding into software, Square aims to empower sellers to grow their businesses. Launched in October 2025, Neighborhoods is a new network between Cash App and Square that allows local businesses to offer online ordering through a mobile app. This role involves shaping the technical direction for Neighborhoods mobile experiences across Cash App and Square Point of Sale, ensuring seamless integration of loyalty, marketing, and ordering features.
Responsibilities
- Lead major Neighborhoods mobile workstreams across Cash App and Square
- Lead major mobile workstreams within a company-level initiative to redefine local commerce and connect the Square and Cash App ecosystems
- Drive cross-team architecture and execution with teams across Square and Cash App to deliver seamless integration of Neighborhoods loyalty, marketing, and ordering features in Cash App running on Square’s platform
- Shape the mobile systems that connect customer discovery in Cash App with seller ordering and fulfillment workflows in Square Point of Sale
- Stay hands-on in iOS development using SwiftUI, Workflow, and related technologies across the Square Point of Sale and Cash App codebases, making tradeoffs that keep mobile experiences reliable, scalable, and polished
- Partner with backend, web, and Android engineers to ship features with a focus on quality and craft, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar for the team
- Work cross-functionally with product managers and designers to define product scope, sequence ambiguous work, and make clear technical and product tradeoffs
- Lead as an AI-native product engineer
- Use AI tools as a native part of feature development: exploring unfamiliar codebases, prototyping product ideas, accelerating implementation, generating tests, improving observability, and tightening documentation
- Identify, teach, and scale practical AI-assisted workflows for product engineering, especially in cross-codebase feature work, migration, debugging, QA, experimentation, and rapid iteration
- Apply strong judgment around AI-generated work: verify behavior, protect customer trust, preserve maintainability, and use AI to raise the team’s technical bar
- Model how a senior engineer uses AI to multiply impact without losing product taste, architectural ownership, or accountability for the systems we ship
Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant experience with iOS engineering design and implementation, including deep Swift and Objective-C experience
- Experience leading iOS architecture with unidirectional data flow, declarative UI frameworks, and scalable mobile patterns
- Experience leading medium-to-large, multi-person mobile initiatives that cross team boundaries, from ambiguous problem framing through delivery, including applying AI tools thoughtfully to improve engineering speed, quality, and learning
- Proven ability to work across team boundaries and disciplines to deliver remarkable solutions to customers
- Track record shaping team mission and roadmap, rallying others around technical direction, and mentoring engineers to expand their scope and impact
- Technologies We Use and Teach: SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Protocol Buffers, Bazel for our build environment, AI tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Goose
Benefits
Pay varies depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
- Zone A: $217,800 USD - $326,800 USD
- Zone B: $207,000 USD - $310,400 USD
- Zone C: $196,100 USD - $294,100 USD
- Zone D: $185,200 USD - $277,800 USD
Application Guidelines
Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed.
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