Staff iOS Engineer

Team: Engineering & Data
Location: London

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff iOS Engineer to join our iOS Platform team. This is a senior technical leadership role where you’ll guide long-term iOS strategy, deliver high-impact solutions, and mentor other engineers. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and leadership to accelerate engineering efforts, improve platform reliability, and modernize our iOS app.

Responsibilities

Contribute high-quality, well-documented code that improves scalability and team productivity.
Drive technical decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals and preventing costly rework.
Mentor and coach engineers across levels to raise technical standards.
Partner with engineering and product leadership on architecture and development processes.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to modernize the iOS app and improve developer velocity.
Define and champion the long-term iOS architectural vision.
Maintain platform health by ensuring reliability, performance, and fast incident resolution.
Promote a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and collaboration.
Lead technical guilds/working groups, building consensus and sharing knowledge.

Qualifications

Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven track record in designing/delivering technical vision for complex, large-scale mobile applications.
Experience mentoring and coaching developers.
Ability to identify and solve ambiguous, large-scale technical challenges.

Essential Skills

Expert in Swift/iOS development, with strong testing practices (XCTest, XCUITest).
Experience with modular frameworks and Swift Package Manager.
Strong knowledge of MVVM, VIPER, and dependency injection.
Proficient with both UIKit and SwiftUI.
Hands-on with CI/CD, release management, feature flags, A/B testing, crash analytics.
Experience handling deep links, push notifications, background execution.
Understanding of operational/non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, observability).