Senior Software Engineer - iOS

Summary

Join Windscribe, a privacy and security software development firm, as a Senior Software Engineer - iOS! This fully remote Canadian position offers the opportunity to work on a product used globally to circumvent censorship and enhance online privacy. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining iOS applications, collaborating with a cross-functional team, and contributing to the entire software development lifecycle. The role requires extensive experience in iOS development, networking protocols, and computer science fundamentals. Windscribe offers a competitive salary, bonus, stock options, generous PTO, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• MacOS application development experience in QT environment
• Experience with Objective-C, C, or C++
• Experience with OpenVPN, IPSec/IKEv2, Wireguard
• Experience with unit testing and UI testing in iOS
• Excellent knowledge of computer science fundamentals (stack, heap, pointers, data structures, algorithms, etc)
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, routing, etc)
• Detailed knowledge of the HTTP/TLS protocol and ability work work with RESTful APIs in less-than-ideal network conditions (restrictive corporate/school networks, government level firewalls)
• Experience maintaining open-source software

Responsibilities

• Learn and understand the product and its varied environments at a deep level
• Write maintainable and well documented code using best practices
• Write and maintain automated tests to catch regressions
• Work closely with QA teams to discover and fix issues end-to-end
• Communicate with end users directly and learn how they use our products
• Maintain internal documentation as part of the development lifecycle
• Liaison with the community on new releases to validate any changes and ensure quality
• Collaborate with cross-platform team members in order to standardize common flows
• Digest high level business goals into product release road maps
• Work collaboratively with the team to make sure all work is delegated in an efficient manner
• Support the team in completing release cycles on time and with high quality
• Contribute to the project by coding, testing, debugging and iterating on the product
• Build internal tools/processes to remove repetitive tasks or speed up slow ones
• Build cross-platform libraries in order to not duplicate implementations of common behavior

Benefits

• Competitive Salary with Bonus and options pool
• Holiday Shutdown
• Generous PTO
• Drug & Dental
• Food Stipend
• RRSP Matching
• Education
• Parental Leave
• Free Hosting & Bandwidth
• Lifetime Windscribe VPN