Staff Ios Engineer

Summary

Join Brightwheel's mobile team as a Staff iOS Engineer! You'll be responsible for maintaining and improving the mobile platform architecture, collaborating with other teams to build user-facing features, and leading complex projects. This role requires 5+ years of iOS experience, deep technical knowledge of the iOS ecosystem, and strong collaboration skills. You'll be working in a fully remote, dynamic startup environment. Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, premium medical, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid parental leave, flexible PTO, and stipends for wellness and professional development. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of professional experience with iOS in a fast-moving team setting
• Have deep technical knowledge of the iOS development ecosystem, standard architectural patterns and its frameworks, including expertise in Swift and SwiftUI
• Be confident in onboarding yourself to a project and operate with little guidance, but know when to ask for help
• Be comfortable designing and consuming REST APIs
• Be comfortable with standard tools, such as GitHub, Apple App Store, and common analytics tools/logging tools
• Have at least limited understanding of legacy iOS technologies including UIKIt, storyboards, Objective-C or RxSwift
• Focus on business impact; focus on successful outcomes for you and your team and seek out ways to continuously improve
• Make pragmatic technology choices at work and keep up with new technologies on your own as well
• Have clear and concise verbal and written communication skills, and a proven record of collaborating with empathy
• Be a self-starter, and will take initiative and leadership when the situation warrants, but are also comfortable with delegating or letting others take ownership when appropriate
• Care deeply about your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you
• Experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; drive engineering process and culture improvements
• Love to teach and learn from your peers

Responsibilities

• Develop software solutions for complex product engineering projects towards a business goal; ship software that matters to our customers and to our company
• Be a steward of quality, scalability, and performance. You’ll propose, define and work on projects to ensure that we have a solid foundation that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product
• Lead complex projects that involve multiple engineers, sometimes across functions (e.g. backend/web)
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to shape and define features, while balancing platform-specific technical concerns, business goals and user impact
• Design and architect new software systems, or introduce new technologies as appropriate to support brightwheel’s growth
• Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team
• Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues
• Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience
• Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams
• Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams
• Mentor peers and junior engineers. Build trust and respect in the team
• Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with modern cloud-based web architectures is a plus

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid parental leave
• A flexible paid time off policy
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
• A Learning & Development stipend