IOS Engineer

Position: iOS Engineer I
About the Role  Handshake is the career network for millions of students and early-career professionals, and our iOS app is how many of them find their first job. Nearly one million students use the app every week to discover jobs, connect with employers, and attend career events. You’d be joining a small iOS team of four senior engineers as our first Engineer I, which means two things.

First, ownership: on a team this size, you won’t be handed tickets off someone else’s backlog. You’ll take features from concept to App Store launch on surfaces real students depend on. Second, mentorship: every engineer around you is senior, and investing in your growth is part of why this role exists. You’ll have a named onboarding mentor, deep code review, and four experienced engineers whose job includes making you better.

We’re hiring at this level because we want to grow you: the path to Engineer II is something we’ll be building toward together from day one.
What You’ll Do   Own features end to end, from product and design conversations through building, testing, launch, and iterating on real usage data, as part of a squad
Build in Swift and SwiftUI (with UIKit where it lives today) inside an MVVM + Coordinator architecture: you’ll write view models, wire up GraphQL/REST services, and ship UI on our internal design system
Ship every week: feature flags, staged rollouts, and thorough code review from senior engineers on every PR
Work on high‑visibility consumer surfaces like jobs discovery, career events and fairs, and student profiles, including the seasonal back‑to‑school moments when usage peaks
Help build AI‑powered experiences in the app, and use AI tools daily in how you work; this team treats AI‑assisted engineering as table stakes
Write unit tests for your view models, contribute to acceptance test coverage, and care about the quality of what you ship
Desired Capabilities    You’ve shipped real iOS software to real users.  A live App Store app is the gold standard, but production features shipped during an internship or job, a substantial public iOS project, or a Test Flight app with actual users all count. Roughly 1–3 years of building iOS apps, professionally or independently.
You own your code.  You can walk through something you built and explain why you structured it that way, where it breaks, and what you’d redo. We use AI tools every day and expect you to, and we expect you to fully understand every line you ship. Shipped is not the same as understood.
You know your way around modern iOS fundamentals  :
Swift, view models and MVVM (or similar patterns), networking, and asynchronous code.
You take initiative.  You’ve started something yourself, iterated on user feedback, or pushed a project further than anyone asked you to. You ask questions early and run with answers.
You communicate clearly  in PRs, in design discussions, and when you’re stuck.
Extra Credit   Consumer app experience: you’ve built for end users at scale rather than internal or B2B tools

Experience with both SwiftUI and UIKit, and moving between them
Familiarity with GraphQL, unit/UI testing (XCTest or similar), or CI/CD tooling like Fastlane
A personal app currently live in the App Store
Experience using analytics, experimentation (A/B testing), or user feedback to decide what to build next
Perks   Ownership:
Equity in a fast-growing company
Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
Family Support:
Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
Wellbeing:
Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, wellness stipend
Growth:
Learning stipend, ongoing development
Remote & Office:
Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
Time Off:
Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
Connection:
Team outings & referral bonuses
Compensation  $132K – $165K
• Offers Equity
For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.

-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

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