Seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Mobile to lead iOS development for an open-source email and productivity platform. This senior position involves technical leadership, architectural planning, and mentoring engineers while delivering high-quality, privacy-focused mobile experiences. The role is fully remote and requires extensive experience in Swift and iOS frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Address complex and ambiguous challenges in mobile development requiring careful design, planning, and cross-team coordination.
- Act as technical lead on major iOS initiatives, including feature development, architectural enhancements, and targeted code refactoring.
- Work with senior engineers and engineering leadership to shape mobile technical direction and key architectural decisions.
- Lead efforts to improve code quality by reducing technical debt and enhancing performance, stability, and build reliability.
- Collaborate closely with product and UX teams to integrate usability and accessibility into iOS implementations.
- Develop high-quality, testable, and maintainable iOS code to strengthen the overall codebase.
- Mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing initiatives.
- Help advance engineering practices and workflows while staying up to date with iOS technologies and industry best practices.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of professional software development experience, including substantial work on complex mobile applications at a senior level.
- Extensive experience with Swift and iOS frameworks is required.
- Strong expertise in mobile architectures, platform limitations, and application lifecycle management on iOS.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and contribute to architectural decisions, with experience mentoring engineers and serving as a technical lead.
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including system design, testing methodologies, and mobile release considerations, along with knowledge of mobile security and privacy standards.
- Experience with communication and email protocols such as RSS, IMAP, POP, or Matrix, and familiarity with IETF standards for CalDav and CardDav.
- Proficient with Git and collaborative development workflows, including code review and continuous integration systems.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary, globally distributed team and a focus on user impact and business context.
Nice to Have
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
- Familiarity with mobile app release processes and app store submission requirements.
- Experience improving team development processes, tooling, or workflows.
- Experience with shared mobile components or cross-platform development patterns is beneficial.
Tech Stack
Swift, iOS frameworks, Git, CI systems, IMAP, POP, RSS, Matrix, CalDav, CardDav
Benefits
- Fully remote work with flexible scheduling
- Provision of latest laptop
- Discretionary Annual Bonus Program
- Monthly remote work stipend
- Annual professional development stipend
- Access to Udemy learning platform
- Attendance at industry conferences
- Participation in company all-hands meetings
- 24 days of paid time off per year (prorated)
- Paid birthday leave
- Year-end company shutdown period
- 9 paid wellbeing days annually
- Public holidays
- Other paid leave options
- Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal or family activities
- 401(k) contributions
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid parental leave
- Paid sick days
Compensation
US: $150,000 - $170,000 USD. Discretionary Annual Bonus Program
Work Arrangement
global — Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
Team
Team size: 50+ people distributed across seven countries. Structure: Distributed team working remotely with collaboration between mobile engineers, product management, UX, and engineering leadership. Reports to: Engineering leadership
- Collaborative
- Inclusive
- User-first
- Open source
- Transparency
- Privacy and productivity coexistence
- Independence from big tech ecosystems
- Community-driven development
Additional Information
- Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting.
- Visa sponsorship is not provided.
- This is a full-time, remote position requiring collaboration with colleagues across multiple regions and time zones.
- Candidates who submit unoriginal AI-generated responses will be disqualified from further consideration.
- Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for individuals with disabilities during the application or interview process.
- The company values authenticity in applications and encourages candidates to share their personal perspective.
We do not provide visa sponsorship.
