Lead Software Engineer - Apple

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We are seeking a highly motivated lead engineer to join our Applle engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for an engineer with deep technical instincts and a collaborative spirit to work directly on the personalized streaming experience for our growing mobile customer base. As a senior technical contributor and team guide, you will help the team navigate complex problems in a dynamic, highly collaborative environment.

We pride ourselves on constantly evaluating and adapting the latest iOS and tvOS capabilities, and there’s always something new to learn. The ideal candidate is a technically solid engineer who works well across teams, communicates clearly with both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders, and brings a methodical approach to building reliable, scalable mobile experiences. Experience working alongside data science, ML, and product teams is a plus.

• Explore, evaluate, and implement new technologies to optimize development efficiency and productivity.
• Evaluate opportunities to bring new technical features to mobile users.
• Develop technical requirements documentation based on product requirements.
• Technical development, debugging, and delivery of best‑in‑class tvOS and iOS native applications
• Collaborate successfully with cross‑functional teams to define, design, and deploy new features.
• Cultivate solid working relationships with colleagues, customers (internal and external), and company management.
• Work closely with your team to ensure the timely delivery of features and improvements.
• Successfully manage multiple tasks and projects in a results‑driven environment.
• Excellent programming skills in Swift
• In‑depth knowledge of the iOS and tvOS platforms and deep knowledge with Xcode.
• Experience working with memory management, multi‑threaded programming, animations, etc.
• Experience working on UI design for all size‑classes.
• Experience in consuming RESTful APIs to connect with back‑end services.
• Strong problem solving and architectural skills.
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and client‑side experimentation — including experiment assignment, holdout groups, and measuring feature impact within an existing testing framework.
• Experience integrating ad‑serving products into Apple applications — knowledge with ad surfaces, impression tracking, and working alongside ad tech teams in a production environment.
• Working knowledge with ML‑driven product features — enough to collaborate proficiently with data science teams on API contracts, discuss what signals the client should capture, and reason about whether issues are a data, model, or rendering problem.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; able to work well with non‑technical members of the development team.
• Ability to assist others in a technical capacity.

• 7+ years of Apple development experience.
• Acted as a key contributor to at least one publicly released native iPhone application.
• Experience working with Agile development processes.
• Desired Qualifications - BS/BA degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Background supporting the integration of rich media assets, including video, into mobile properties.
• Experience building data‑driven or server‑driven UI — personalized feeds, ranked content surfaces, dynamic layouts, and the pagination, prefetching, and cache invalidation strategies that keep high‑velocity content feeling fast and fresh.
• Experience working with entertainment, games, news, or sports‑related properties preferred.

• Continuous Build & Test Automation experience.
• Understanding of streaming video and DRM concepts.
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