Lead Software Engineer; iOS; On-site

Company Description

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth:
When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make!!

Job Description

Cricut is looking for a talented Lead iOS Mobile Engineer to help us take our iOS native apps to the next level. The position demands a candidate capable of doing high-quality work against technical and schedule challenges, while following strong software design and process principles. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in a dynamic team, working on cutting edge mobile technology.

You are a driver of change and you have yet to meet a technological challenge you cannot resolve. You are dedicated to developing clean code that will help shape the iOS mobile software which thrills our users.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on role where you will be working alongside the team
• Lead technical architecture, coding standards, and other team processes and policies
• Work with PM and UX on story refinement, articulate engineering concerns, and guide technical direction
• Work with cross functional teams on quarterly planning and plan work for the team
• Apply software engineering design patterns to develop well-structured, modular, performant application code
• Run Scrum ceremonies
• Work collaboratively with product manager to drive features and maintain the backlog
• Serve as a technical mentor and know how to delegate tasks to the team
• Perform code reviews, write unit and UI tests, and contribute to architectural planning and refactoring
• Collaborate with API teams on API design
• Drive software releases includes releasing apps to the App Store

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable field with 5+ years relevant experience
• Extensive experience developing iOS mobile native applications in Swift/Swift
  
  UI (experience in The Composable Architecture is a big plus)
• Solid knowledge of iOS UI design principles, best practices, and development life cycle
• Experience with at least one of these design architectures: MVVM, MVC, VIPER, Clean Architecture
• Experience consuming RESTful JSON/XML web services, Open API standard (Swagger)
• Experience in testing high volume applications: unit test, integration test, performance test
• Experience with Git and Git Flow
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies
• Experience in mentoring junior members
• Experience in project management
• A solid grasp of fundamental algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
• Ability to prototype new features and redesign existing ones
• Excellent problem solving, debugging skills, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Aptitude and desire to independently learn new technologies
• Working knowledge of Internationalization

Preferred Skills

• Experience in working with offshore contractors
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery (e.g., Bitrise, Git Hub Actions)
• Experience in Core Animation, Core Graphics, Core Bluetooth
• Experience in automated user interface functional testing
• Experience with iOS performance profiling tools and optimization techniques
• Experience with…