Staff iOS Engineer ( Eastern Standard Time Only)

What You’ll Do

• Develop software solutions for complex product engineering projects towards a business goal; ship software that matters to our customers and to our company.
• Be a steward of quality, scalability, and performance. You’ll propose, define and work on projects to ensure that we have a solid foundation that serves our customers, and enables the team to continue building a great product.
• Lead complex projects that involve multiple engineers, sometimes across functions (e.g. backend/web).
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to shape and define features, while balancing platform-specific technical concerns, business goals and user impact.
• Design and architect new software systems, or introduce new technologies as appropriate to support brightwheel’s growth.
• Improve engineering velocity by implementing best practices and frameworks; improve coding efficiency and quality across the team.
• Proactively identify and diagnose issues of reliability and performance; rapidly deploy code to address issues.
• Drive sound, data-driven decision-making; analyze data insights to uncover opportunities to improve architecture for a great customer experience.
• Promote excellence in engineering process & culture across teams.
• Collaborate effectively with technical as well as non-technical functions across the company with empathy; promote technical learning across teams.
• Mentor peers and junior engineers. Build trust and respect in the team. 
• Interview and evaluate engineering candidate technical capabilities to help grow our engineering team.

Qualifications, Technical Skills

• You must have 5+ years of professional experience with iOS in a fast-moving team setting.
• You must have deep technical knowledge of the iOS development ecosystem, standard architectural patterns and its frameworks, including expertise in Swift and SwiftUI.
• You should be confident in onboarding yourself to a project and operate with little guidance, but know when to ask for help.
• You should be comfortable designing and consuming REST APIs.
• You are comfortable with standard tools, such as GitHub, Apple App Store, and common analytics tools/logging tools.
• You should have at least limited understanding of legacy iOS technologies including UIKIt, storyboards, Objective-C or RxSwift.  
• Familiarity with modern cloud-based web architectures  is a plus.

Qualifications, Essential People Skills

• You focus on business impact; you focus on successful outcomes for you and your team and seek out ways to continuously improve.
• You make pragmatic technology choices at work and keep up with new technologies on your own as well. 
• You have clear and concise  verbal and written communication skills, and a proven record of collaborating with empathy.
• You are a self-starter, and will take initiative and leadership when the situation warrants, but are also comfortable with delegating or letting others take ownership when appropriate.
• You care deeply about your work and are aware of how your attitude affects those around you.
• You experiment with many different types of development and project methodologies and have a healthy appreciation for what works; you drive engineering process and culture improvements
• You love to teach and learn from your peers.