Senior Software Engineer II; iOS

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Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We are home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go‑to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

Location: Soho Square, London Office / Hybrid

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

We are on a mission to be the app you can’t move without. As the UK's biggest property app and website, our iOS app is a critical touchpoint for millions of home movers every month.

In this role, you will shape the long‑term architecture, quality bar, and developer experience for multiple teams while still contributing hands‑on to complex initiatives. You will work closely with cross‑discipline leaders in Product Management, QA, Back‑end engineering, Product Design, and Analytics to define technical roadmaps that unlock ambitious product bets. You will be the go‑to person for complex technical decisions, platform‑wide improvements, and incident response.

• Platform ownership: define and evolve the overall architecture of the iOS app, including modularisation strategy, navigation, design system integration, performance and observability.
• Cross‑team leadership: work with several product teams to ensure technical consistency, reuse of shared components and alignment to platform principles.
• Technical strategy: partner with Product and Engineering leadership to build and communicate technical roadmaps that support experimentation, speed and long‑term sustainability.
• Complex delivery: lead the implementation of high‑impact, cross‑cutting features and refactors, unblocking other engineers and coordinating work across teams.
• Coaching and mentoring: grow the capabilities of Senior and Mid‑level engineers through pairing, design reviews and targeted coaching, raising the overall bar.
• Operational excellence: drive improvements to reliability, incident response, monitoring and alerting, ensuring we maintain a robust, highly available app experience.
• Community and standards: shape coding standards, patterns and best practices, and lead knowledge sharing across the wider Native Apps and Engineering communities.

• Experience:
  
  extensive experience delivering complex iOS applications at scale, ideally in a consumer product environment.
• Architectural depth: designed and evolved modular architectures, shared libraries and cross‑cutting concerns such as navigation, design systems and networking.
• Strategic thinking: can connect technical decisions to product strategy, experimentation needs and business outcomes, and influence roadmaps accordingly.
• Cross‑functional influence: works effectively with Product, Design, QA, Data and Back‑end engineering leaders to align on priorities and trade‑offs.
• Technical leadership: track record of leading large initiatives, unblocking others and setting clear technical direction for multiple teams.
• Operational focus: understands reliability, performance and observability in depth, and has experience improving these across a fleet of devices.
• People development: enjoys developing others, shaping hiring standards and contributing to a strong engineering culture.

• Experience evolving legacy codebases into modern architectures.
• Contributions to the iOS community, such as talks, blogs or open source.
• Experience influencing technical direction in a multi‑platform environment (Android, Web, Backend).

Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work. Our values are:

• We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• We move together…by being one team – internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

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