Staff iOS Engineer

Team

The Staff iOS Engineer provides technical leadership across iOS and tvOS platforms, architects scalable mobile solutions, influences long-term technical direction, and partners with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams. The mobile team uses agentic workflows to build and ship features.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement major features across FOX News iOS and tvOS applications
• Drive technical strategy for the mobile platform: modularization, build system performance, developer tooling, and long-term platform evolution
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, pair programming, and architectural guidance
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to define requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and deliver mobile features
• Own application performance, reliability, observability, and crash-free rate targets
• Lead adoption of modern Apple frameworks and APIs (SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, WidgetKit, Live Activities, CarPlay where applicable)
• Design and maintain shared component libraries, networking layers, dependency injection infrastructure, and reusable platform services
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs (analytics, advertising, video, community platforms) with emphasis on stability, performance, privacy, and minimal footprint
• Establish engineering standards for architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and code quality
• Identify opportunities to build internal developer tools and automations, including AI-powered solutions, to improve engineering workflows
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and production triage for mobile-specific issues

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, including at least 2 years as Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or comparable technical leadership role
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency (async/await, actors, structured concurrency)
• Deep experience architecting, building, and shipping large-scale consumer applications on the App Store
• Strong understanding of iOS application architecture, including MVVM, Coordinator patterns, modular and multi-target project structures, dependency injection, and scalable application design
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, or similar) to support software development
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels
• Experience with video playback, streaming technologies, and media frameworks on Apple platforms
• Strong experience with XCTest, XCUITest, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release management
• Demonstrated ability to build developer tooling or automation that improves team efficiency
• Regular on-site attendance at workplace minimum 3 days per week

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal developer platforms, engineering productivity tools, or workflow automations
• Experience with Swift Package Manager and maintaining modular codebases
• Familiarity with Apple's latest frameworks and platform capabilities
• Experience working in digital media, publishing, or content-driven consumer applications
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI services into internal developer tools

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Various benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents
• Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available
• Fair Chance hiring practices
• Hybrid work model (NYC)