Backed by 500 Global.
About the role
As a Staff iOS Engineer on Product Platform, you will be a hands-on technical leader and a multiplier for iOS engineering. You will identify important problems that do not yet have clear ownership, prove a direction through hands-on work, and create systems that other teams can adopt. You will influence iOS architecture, developer experience, performance, reliability, security, and product quality across multiple teams.
What they're looking for
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 8+ years in roles where mobile engineering was a primary responsibility, including 4+ years building native iOS products
- Deep expertise across modern and legacy iOS frameworks, Swift, and Objective-C
- Experience creating foundational systems, shared frameworks, or developer tooling used across multiple teams
- A record of leading strategic, multi-quarter initiatives with broad adoption and durable impact
- Experience connecting platform strategy to customer-facing and multi-tenant SaaS products that support business operations
More about this role
Product Platform builds the foundations behind Cash App and Square. We own shared systems, abstractions, and tools that help product teams build high-quality iOS experiences with speed, consistency, and confidence, while shaping how AI-native development is adopted across our engineering organizations.
As a Staff iOS Engineer on Product Platform, you will be a hands-on technical leader and a multiplier for iOS engineering.
You will identify important problems that do not yet have clear ownership, prove a direction through hands-on work, and create systems that other teams can adopt. You will influence iOS architecture, developer experience, performance, reliability, security, and product quality across multiple teams.
This is an individual contributor role with organization-level scope. Your goal is not to become a permanent bottleneck. You will create leverage through clear interfaces, strong documentation, sound technical decisions, and new technical leaders.
- Own and evolve foundational iOS systems, such as application architecture, navigation, deep linking, dependency management, lifecycle management, and shared user interface foundations.
- Design shared libraries,...
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