IOS Engineer, App Builds

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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. We are passionate about educating our users, making fact‑based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. We offer meaningful work, limitless learning opportunities, and collaboration with world‑class minds.

As an iOS engineer in our Client Platform Infrastructure Area you will have the opportunity to build all the necessary infrastructure and tools to ensure Duolingo's iOS development can continue to be fast and efficient  have several different teams you can join responsible for application performance, architecture, and build tooling and infrastructure.

• As an engineer on the Client Builds and Infrastructure team you’ll be responsible for evaluating and setting the direction for our iOS builds. This includes explorations into Bazel, modularization strategies, and CI pipeline changes to optimize build times across 70+ iOS developers.

• Represent the team in architectural discussions and stakeholder conversations, serving as a bridge between Client Platform and Product feature teams.
• Work within our Client Platform Infrastructure area to create and maintain the foundational building blocks of our application infrastructure.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and mentor engineers of all experience levels.
• Explore, prototype, and implement prospective tools for scaling our infrastructure such as diving deep into Bazel migration, Tuist integration, or investigating new platform capabilities.

• 6+ years of iOS software engineering experience, 1‑2+ years developing scalable production software and an excellent command of engineering fundamentals.
• Deep expertise in Swift and concurrency primitives.
• Proficiency in native iOS development using standard tools and frameworks.
• Ability to relocate to New York, NY.

• Knowledge of iOS SDK performance tools and optimization techniques.
• Experience supporting either Bazel based‑projects or large iOS/macOS projects.
• Experience maintaining a high performance CI pipeline.
• Deep understanding of testing best practices.

$177,700 — $240,400 USD

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world‑class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process.

The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, and internal equity.

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