Senior iOS Engineer (w. Swift)

Requirements

• 5+ years of production Swift experience in consumer-facing iOS appsMust
• Strong UIKit skillsMust
• GraphQL client experience, specifically Apollo iOS SDKMust
• Coordinator pattern and MVC architecture knowledgeMust
• WKWebView integration and native-to-web bridge patterns using WKScriptMessageHandlerMust
• Audio and video playback using AVFoundationMust
• CocoaPods dependency managementMust
• Media or publishing app experience
• Ad SDK integration (Google Ad Manager, Prebid, Amazon APS)
• Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config, Cloud Messaging)
• Auth0 authentication flows
• StoreKit and in-app purchase implementation
• WidgetKit, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island development
• CarPlay development experience

What you'll do

• Work inside an existing large codebase with an established team
• Build native Swift features for iOS app
• Integrate audio features including CarPlay support
• Implement video playback functionality
• Integrate embedded web views for interactive content
• Participate in architecture review of large Swift codebase
• Attend standups and collaborate with internal team

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About the role

You will join our client’s mobile team as an embedded engineer building new features for their flagship iOS news app. You’ll work inside their Jira board, attend their standups, and ship code alongside their internal team. They handle back-end services; you own the native Swift layer. What You’ll Build • A redesigned home screen with dynamic, personalizable content feeds • Revamped navigation across the app • Audio integration for continuous play and CarPlay support (AVFoundation) • Vertical video playback • Food and Sports brand destinations including a Discover map and live scoreboards • Embedded web views for games, puzzles, and interactive content from the CMS • Architecture review of the existing ~85K-line Swift codebase during the design sprint Requirements • 5+ years of production Swift experience in consumer-facing iOS apps • Strong UIKit skills (the existing codebase uses UIKit, no SwiftUI) • Experience with GraphQL clients, specifically Apollo iOS SDK • Familiarity with Coordinator pattern + MVC architecture • Experience with WKWebView integration and native-to-web bridge patterns (WKScriptMessageHandler) • Audio/video playback using AVFoundation • CocoaPods dependency management • Comfortable working inside an existing large codebase with an established team Nice to Have • Experience with media or publishing apps (news, streaming, content-heavy products) • Ad SDK integration (Google Ad Manager, Prebid, Amazon APS) • Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config, Cloud Messaging) • Auth0 authentication flows • StoreKit / in-app purchase implementation • WidgetKit, Live Activities, Dynamic Island • CarPlay development experience Originally posted on Himalayas