Senior iOS Engineer

Pocket Prep is a leading mobile and web-based learning platform offering efficient and affordable study solutions for professional certifications. We believe that education should be within everyone’s reach. Professional certification exams are often a stressful and expensive barrier to career advancement - Pocket Prep strives to prepare our members to pass with confidence.

The engineering team at Pocket Prep works alongside the product and design teams to develop the technical backbone of our applications. As the stewards of our codebases, engineering team members focus on their craft to provide high quality, resilient, and accessible products that help studiers of all walks of life achieve their goals. We strive to continuously improve our processes, coding standards, and patterns both as individual engineers and as a team to ensure that we’re always ready for the next challenge.

Our iOS engineers work to maintain and add new features to our native iOS Study app. This role will substantially contribute to our iOS production codebase and test suite, and will work in tandem with our Android engineers to produce a consistent experience across platforms. This can involve code review, participating in and leading technical kickoffs, and developing best practices. The role will also collaborate with our design team to implement a consistent and responsive UI that gels with both our product and the native OS look and feel.

The right candidate will be focused not just on writing code, but being a great engineer, problem-solver, and teammate.

• Develop and maintain our iOS Study application and test suites
• Work closely with Android engineers to align our mobile experiences and architectural patterns across platforms
• Collaborate with the design team to implement UX changes and inform them of platform-specific behavior
• Ideate with PMs to flesh out technical requirements, risks, and complexity
• Work with the larger engineering team to develop and iterate on our values, best practices, and code style guidelines

We’re looking for someone who has the following:

Required:

• 6+ years of native iOS development experience in Swift
• Strong knowledge of the iOS platform framework and Swift
• Proficiency building UI in Interface Builder
• Experience deploying apps to the App Store
• XCTest framework proficiency

Preferred:

• Reactive architectural patterns/RxSwift proficiency
• Experience building UI with SwiftUI
• Familiar with iOS accessibility best practices
• Familiar with Android platform and Kotlin language, and able to understand and provide feedback on Android code

And exhibits the following qualities:

• An engineer’s mindset - writing code that will stand the test of time and address the problems at hand, rather than focusing on quick fixes
• A desire to collaborate with the team, knowledge share, and pair program to find optimal solutions and solve complex tasks
• Strong opinions, weakly held - use your expertise to provide input and feedback, while also keeping an open mind to possibilities
• Love for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for others

You are also excited about our culture:

• Embrace a spirit of improvement and welcome feedback
• Choose curiosity instead of judgment
• Share your opinions and perspectives, and kindly disagree when you see things differently
• Craft is important to you;
  You prefer to do things well instead of rushed
• Love for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for others

Some of our employee benefits include:

• Stability: We're 12+ years old, 100% profitable without investor backing and we continue to have year-over-year growth.
• Work/Life Balance: Freedom to live your life while accomplishing something awesome for everyone in education. Flexible PTO and a 3-week company-wide holiday break from mid-December through the New Year.
• Competitive Compensation: Generous profit-sharing program and total compensation that targets the 75th percentile.
• 100% Healthcare: We cover all of our employees' healthcare premiums because we are invested in your well-being. We also cover 80% of dependents.
• Hybrid Flexibility: You can work where and when you are most effective. We have an office in downtown Durham, North Carolina, and are supportive of hybrid work options.
• Give Back: We are active participants in our communities through volunteer partnerships with local nonprofits. We offer VTO (volunteer time off) for independent engagement with your community.