Staff iOS Engineer
Summary
Staff iOS Engineer at The Economist Group (London, hybrid) shaping the company's iOS platform: setting technical direction, leading architecture, performance, modularization and observability initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Core stack is Swift and SwiftUI, with CI/CD, test automation and mobile observability.
As Staff iOS Engineer, you will shape the future of our iOS platform while delivering high-impact, scalable mobile experiences. You’ll work within a cross-functional, hybrid-enabled team to set technical direction, raise the bar on quality, and mentor engineers across levels. You’ll tackle performance, modularization, and observability initiatives to ensure a fast, reliable app that serves millions of users. This role offers meaningful, technically challenging work at a trusted global brand, with opportunities to influence architecture and engineering culture. You will partner with product, design, and backend teams to deliver valuable, user-centered features.
Pay / Benefits- pension or 401(k) plan
- private health insurance
- counselling and wellbeing resources via EAP
- Work From Anywhere program (up to 25 days/year)
- generous annual and parental leave
- volunteering days and relocation flexibility? (moving home)
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of iOS architecture, frameworks, and performance-critical systems across the app
- Collaborate with product, design, and platform leads to define technical strategy and ensure high-quality feature delivery
- Set coding standards and best practices across iOS teams; guide code reviews and design documentation
- Identify cross-cutting concerns and lead platform-wide initiatives (performance optimization, modularization, observability, test infrastructure)
- Act as a technical mentor for engineers across levels to grow technical and leadership capabilities
- Champion high performance, scalability, and maintainability; proactively resolve system bottlenecks
- Foster cross-platform collaboration with Android and backend teams through design reviews and alignment
- iOS development experience with strong proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI
- Proven track record designing scalable mobile architecture and leading complex projects
- Strong technical leadership including mentorship and cross-functional collaboration
- Deep understanding of iOS UI frameworks, offline data strategies, threading, performance profiling, and memory management
- Experience with test automation, CI/CD, and mobile observability practices
- Excellent communication; ability to simplify complex ideas and drive decisions
- Strong ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and problem-solving at technical and team levels
- excellent communication
- ownership mindset
- cross-functional collaboration
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- iOS architecture