Founding Engineer (iOS, Startup, Remote)

Company:

A US-based early-stage startup with the mission to revolutionize self-expression on social media

Product:

A social iOS app for sharing real emotions and authentic moods, aimed at helping people honestly express themselves and connect with others who feel the same way

Role:

We are looking for a Founding Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the technical foundation and scaling the product

In this role, you’ll work closely with the founding team and make a real impact on the business — your opinions will matter, whether they’re about the tech stack to use for a particular feature or a new hypothesis on testing how the feed algorithm should work

What You’ll Do:

• Drive growth — provide and review technical solutions and overall product direction tech-wise
• Be an active contributor to the full product development cycle — from feature proposals to implementation
• Think like a user — use the app and prioritize features or fixes that solve customers’ real pain points
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment — collaborate with a cross-functional team and have the freedom and opportunities to see your decisions all the way to production with zero bureaucracy
• Participate in the full product development cycle, from feature proposal to implementation
• Design and implement flexible and scalable application architecture
• Optimize performance and improve application behavior on real devices
• Research and study solutions to complex problems
• Develop robust and scalable client-server architecture
• Write modular, maintainable, and testable code

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary + stock options
• Fully remote work with flexible hours
• 4 weeks of vacation, national holidays (according to the US calendar), and flexible sick leave
• Compensated English classes
• Corporate testing equipment
• Zero bureaucracy and lots of autonomy to shape the tech foundation of a fast-growing startup
• Team hackathons and events

What You Have:

• 5+ years of commercial experience with Swift
• Deep expertise in SwiftUI, Combine and Swift Concurrency
• Deep understanding of multithreading, data races and synchronization tools (actor, DispatchQueue, MainActor, OperationQueue etc.)
• Knowledge of architectural patterns such as MVVM, Redux and TCA and ability to choose the right pattern depending on the context
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot performance issues
• Excellent UI implementation skills
• Experience in designing robust networking layers
• Good level of English & Russian (B2+)
• Living in an unsanctioned country and having an IE/LLC there to conclude a contract with a US-based company

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in developing complex user interfaces
• Experience working with real-time data
• Experience working with Firebase
• Experience refactoring code and managing technical debt