iOS Engineer (Remote)
The Athletic- 105000 - 155000 USD per Year
- Full Time
- Posted : 4 months ago
The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.
About The Role
Our ideal candidate will own key aspects of our native iOS application and contribute to our core features and architecture. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can build beautiful, polished user experiences and architect elegant, maintainable code. We prioritize fast iteration without compromising quality. Successful candidates keep up-to-date with best practices and have a familiarity with bleeding-edge features from Apple.
You can check out our current iOS app here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317
This role is open to all levels of experience as there are multiple openings on the iOS team from Associate Engineer to Senior Engineer.
This role is remote for eligible candidates located in the United States and Canada only.
Responsibilities
- Work with Design and Product teams to build UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered
- Architect and build the app to optimize for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality
- Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality
- Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues
- Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams
- Refactor existing code where needed in order to improve quality of life for the other engineers
- Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements
- Title will be dependent on minimum years of experience with native iOS development in Swift
- Consumer-facing product and design instincts with a desire to have a voice in product decisions
- Preferred experience in GraphQL, SwiftUI, Combine
- Preferred experience in an early-stage startup working on growth and scale challenges
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Skills
- Core Data
- Functional Testing
- Mobile Application Development
- Model-View-Controller (MVC)
- Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM)
