IT & Software

Staff iOS Engineer

Economist Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As Staff iOS Engineer, you will shape the future of our iOS platform while delivering high-impact, scalable mobile experiences. You’ll work within a cross-functional, hybrid-enabled team to set technical direction, raise the bar on quality, and mentor engineers across levels. You’ll tackle performance, modularization, and observability initiatives to ensure a fast, reliable app that serves millions of users. This role offers meaningful, technically challenging work at a trusted global brand, with opportunities to influence architecture and engineering culture. You will partner with product, design, and backend teams to deliver valuable, user-centered features.

Pay / Benefits
  • pension or 401(k) plan
  • private health insurance
  • counselling and wellbeing resources via EAP
  • Work From Anywhere program (up to 25 days/year)
  • generous annual and parental leave
  • volunteering days and relocation flexibility? (moving home)
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design, development, and evolution of iOS architecture, frameworks, and performance-critical systems across the app
  • Collaborate with product, design, and platform leads to define technical strategy and ensure high-quality feature delivery
  • Set coding standards and best practices across iOS teams; guide code reviews and design documentation
  • Identify cross-cutting concerns and lead platform-wide initiatives (performance optimization, modularization, observability, test infrastructure)
  • Act as a technical mentor for engineers across levels to grow technical and leadership capabilities
  • Champion high performance, scalability, and maintainability; proactively resolve system bottlenecks
  • Foster cross-platform collaboration with Android and backend teams through design reviews and alignment
Key requirements
  • iOS development experience with strong proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI
  • Proven track record designing scalable mobile architecture and leading complex projects
  • Strong technical leadership including mentorship and cross-functional collaboration
  • Deep understanding of iOS UI frameworks, offline data strategies, threading, performance profiling, and memory management
  • Experience with test automation, CI/CD, and mobile observability practices
  • Excellent communication; ability to simplify complex ideas and drive decisions
  • Strong ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, and problem-solving at technical and team levels
  • excellent communication
  • ownership mindset
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS architecture

Reference: WJ-747_31178889

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