Senior iOS Engineer, Media Foundations
$190,000–$267,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Architect a highly modular, easy-to-integrate iOS video player that enables other teams to build features effortlessly while delivering first-class performance for users. Partner with backend media infrastructure and CDN teams to optimize global delivery and performance. Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel media products and features. Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, system design, and coding, while applying rigorous judgement to validate and own the final outputs. Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help coach and mentor engineers on the team to further their professional development. Drive related technical and product strategy, operations, architecture, and execution for one of the largest sites in the world.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise
- 5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience developing user-facing iOS mobile native applications at scale, using Swift
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
- Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- A track record of leading projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
- Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of AVFoundation for video and audio playback, asset management, streaming, editing, and exporting capabilities
- Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), MPEG-DASH, MP4, and other streaming protocols, as well as working knowledge of streaming frameworks and CDN integration for optimized video delivery
- Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on top of core media playback components
- A proven track record of using data and performance metrics to relentlessly optimize apps, moving the needle from 'good' to 'world-class' user experiences
- Experience building robust, clean, and scalable APIs/components designed to be easily consumed by other internal engineering teams
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