iOS Engineer (New York) (NY, USA)
Summary
On-site iOS engineer in New York City building and shipping native iOS features in Swift for a consumer marketplace app used by 1M+ creators. Joins a small team working directly with founders to shape architecture, performance, and polished UX using Swift, Objective-C, MVVM, and REST APIs.
iOS Engineer (New York City)
Comp: $130,000–$230,000 USD + Equity
Stack: Swift, Objective-C, MVVM, REST APIs, iOS SDK, Xcode
Location: New York City | 5 days/week on-site
🧭 Why This Role
- Own major parts of a native iOS product used by 1M+ creators at a fast-growing consumer marketplace.
- Join a small engineering team where you'll work directly with the founders and have significant influence over the product, architecture, and mobile experience.
- Build a highly polished, consumer-grade app generating 200K+ downloads/month.
🛠️ You will:
- Build and ship native iOS features end-to-end using Swift.
- Help define and evolve the iOS architecture as the team scales.
- Build polished, fast, and intuitive experiences for creators.
- Improve application performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Establish mobile engineering standards and best practices.
- Work directly with Product, Design, Backend, and the founders to rapidly test and ship ideas.
🧩 Skills:
- 1–5+ years of professional iOS development experience.
- Strong Swift and native iOS development experience.
- Experience building or scaling consumer iOS applications.
- Strong understanding of iOS architecture, MVVM, REST APIs, and mobile fundamentals.
- Excellent product instincts with strong attention to UI/UX and detail.
- Comfortable taking significant ownership in a fast-moving startup.
- Able to work 5 days/week on-site in NYC.
🪶 Other Skills:
- Objective-C experience.
- Experience building products from an early stage.
- High-engagement consumer, creator, marketplace, social, or mobile app experience.
- Strong design sensibility and experience building highly polished interfaces.
- Heavy use of AI coding tools, models, or agents in your engineering workflow.
- Startup or founder-level product ownership experience.
🧬 How The Company Works
- Builder-first – Engineers generate ideas, build, test, and iterate rather than waiting for detailed specs.
- High ownership – A small engineering team means individual engineers have major product impact.
- Product obsessed – The bar is polished, intuitive consumer software that feels truly native to iOS.
- AI-augmented – The team actively experiments with new AI models and agentic development workflows.
- Founder access – Work directly alongside the founders without layers of management.
- Real scale – 1.4M+ creators, 3,000+ brands, and over $100M in creator payments through the platform.
- In-person – The team builds together from its New York City office.
