iOS Team Lead

iOS Team Lead (Founding Lead)

Our platform already boasts a thriving Android app and a community that sparks thousands of new conversations every day - yet the iOS experience is still waiting to shine. As our first iOS Team Lead for this app, you’ll take a well-defined product roadmap and core requirements, refine them into a practical engineering plan, and set the standards for quality and scalability. You’ll recruit and mentor a small iOS squad, foster a collaborative engineering culture, and work closely with Product and Design to translate user insights into features that delight. Expect the autonomy of a founding engineer, plus hands-on support from the existing Android and backend teams every step of the way.

In this role, you will

• Relaunch our iOS app from the ground up, turning a ready-made roadmap into a high-performance, production-ready experience
• Hire, mentor, and inspire a lean iOS squad, setting the bar for clean, testable code and modern engineering practices
• Own delivery timelines: break big goals into clear milestones and keep the team laser-focused on hitting them
• Establish the technical playbook—architecture, CI, code reviews—that will scale with millions of users
• Partner daily with Product, Design, Android, and Backend leads to turn bold ideas into features that delight users and solve real business challenges

It’s all about you

• 5+ years building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least one release that reached 100 k+ active users
• 2+ years in a Tech Lead or Team Lead role, hiring and coaching 2-5 engineers, running stand-ups, and guiding performance reviews
• Profound knowledge of Swift and iOS SDK
• Understanding of architectural concepts (MVVM+Clean Architecture)
• Deep understanding of Git and best practices (GitFlow, TBD, etc.)
• Familiarity with reactive programming (Combine)
• Experience with code signing and provisioning
• In-depth knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI
• Familiarity with Google SDK, Facebook SDK, and Lottie (optional)
• Thorough understanding of multithreading
• Testing experience, including Unit/UI/Integration testing
• Database experience with CoreData/Realm
• Networking experience, including REST and sockets
• Experience with dependency managers such as SPM, CocoaPods, and Carthage
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment tools (Jenkins, Fastlane, Bitrise).
• Knowledge of UI/UX patterns for mobile
• Experience with Design Patterns

Would be a plus

• Proven history of designing—or completely rebuilding—app architecture and clearly defending your technical choices
• Hands-on experience with cross-platform sharing layers (e.g., Kotlin Multiplatform)