IOS Engineer

Fox Corporation Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

The Staff iOS Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership across our iOS and tvOS platforms. In this role, you’ll architect scalable mobile solutions, influence the long-term technical direction of the platform, and partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to deliver applications used by millions of users. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll set technical direction through architecture, mentorship, and engineering standards.

You’ll also identify opportunities to improve developer workflows through automation and internal tooling. This is a unique opportunity to join an ambitious mobile team using agentic workflows to build and ship high-quality features at lightning speed!

• Architect and implement major features across the FOX News iOS and tvOS applications.
• Drive the technical strategy for the mobile platform, including modularization, build system performance, developer tooling, and long-term platform evolution.
• Mentor and grow 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 across the iOS and tvOS platforms.
• Lead the adoption of modern Apple frameworks and APIs, including SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, Widget Kit, Live Activities, and Car Play where applicable.
• Design and maintain shared component libraries, networking layers, dependency injection infrastructure, and reusable platform services.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs—including analytics, advertising, video, and community platforms, with an emphasis on stability, performance, privacy, and minimal application 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 where appropriate, to improve engineering workflows.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and production triage for mobile-specific issues while driving long-term platform reliability improvements.

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, including at least 2 years operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or in a 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 (such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Open Code or similar) to support software development and improve engineering productivity.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Experience with video playback, streaming technologies, and…