Software Engineer - iOS, Standalone Apps Team

Team

Join Meta's Standalone Apps Team, building new apps to reach new user scenarios and serve needs not well met today. You'll work on a small team building an image-and-text community where real people share first-hand experiences and recommendations — what to try, where to go, how to do something. This is a 0→1 project with high ownership and a short path from idea to ship.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship core features of the iOS app, end to end
• Own the architecture of major client areas; set conventions and raise the bar for code quality, performance, and reliability
• Drive a high-quality consumer experience — smooth scrolling, fast load, low crash rate — and instrument it so you can measure and improve it
• Partner with design, product, and backend engineers to scope and sequence work in a fast 0→1 environment
• Mentor other engineers through code review, design review, and pairing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time building consumer iOS apps
• Expertise in Swift (and/or Objective-C) and the iOS frameworks
• Strong grasp of app architecture, concurrency, and performance
• Track record of shipping and maintaining iOS features at scale
• Experience leading the technical direction of a project and working independently with limited guidance

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration)
• Experience taking a new app from 0→1 (early-stage or new-product work)
• Experience with offline support, media-heavy feeds, or client-side performance optimization
• Experience with SwiftUI and modern declarative UI

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to shape a product from its first version
• High ownership with short path from idea to ship
• Work on new app development at Meta scale
• Collaborate with design, product, and backend engineers
• Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available
• Fair hiring practices
• Drug-free workplace
• California-based role with competitive compensation
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