Senior iOS Engineer

Engineering teams shouldn’t be in the dark when it comes to the performance of their mobile apps and user experiences. With our industry-leading mobile observability technology, Embrace aims to give SRE and DevOps teams better insight into what matters most – their users – by tying mobile performance data to backend observability insights.

As the only user-focused, mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry, Embrace delivers crucial insights across both DevOps and mobile teams to illuminate real customer impact – not just server impact – to deliver the best app experiences. Customers like The New York Times, Marriott, Warby Parker, Masterclass, Home Depot, and Cameo love Embrace’s mobile observability platform because it makes extremely complicated and voluminous data actionable.

We have an exciting new role within the company to contribute to the growth of Embrace’s highly differentiated and game-changing mobile observability offering.

About the Role

We’re looking for an iOS all-star who loves diving into and staying abreast of everything Apple. You will own the Embrace iOS SDK by designing and implementing cutting edge technology that improves the lives of fellow developers. If you’re excited to expand a product, which is gathering data and processing tens of billions of data points daily from 100M+ devices and growing rapidly, we should chat.

What You’ll Do

• Own the overall architecture and performance of our iOS app and watch integrations as well as any future Apple devices (TV? Car?)
• Push the envelope by researching and implementing features that help fellow developers
• Adopt the latest iOS APIs, languages, and features
• Coach and collaborate directly with our amazing customers
• Work with product, Customer Success, and sales to share technology and product decisions
• Implement and improve engineering best practices for a rapidly growing code base that is relied upon by the world’s top mobile companies

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience of iOS development using Swift and Objective-C
• Experience with unit testing and performance optimization methodologies
• Experience building SDKs for mobile
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the Objective-C run-time
• A curiosity for how things work and the ability to think ahead for future changes in an ever-changing mobile ecosystem
• High competency and low ego, you have a passion for helping people both inside and outside of your company
• Submitted and released iOS apps
• Experience with instrumenting mobile code to report performance metrics in production
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and other observability and/or tracing frameworks
• Experience with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and Flutter
• Contribution to open source projects
• An opinion on Star Wars vs Star Trek

Gathering is integral to our culture for collaboration and connection. We want to ensure that all of our new hires have the ability to travel and meet other team members. We estimate the travel for any given role to be a couple of days every month or two. In order to gather, new hires must be able to meet our COVID vaccination requirement as we continue to help our team limit risk.

Culture Values

• Perspective - seeking to understand others’ perspectives
• Investing - investing in discovering value, unprompted
• Honesty - delivering brutal honesty kindly
• Simplest - finding the simplest solutions by focusing on outcomes
• Ownership - empowering yourself and others through solutions, not answers
• Dark Humor - finding levity together, even when tackling hard problems

Why join Embrace?

Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and counts Adidas Runtastic, Cameo, GOAT, Hatch, Ibotta, Marriott, The New York Times, Warby Parker, Wildlife Studios, Yahoo!, and many more as customers. Embrace is supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, YCombinator, and Eniac along with investments from the founders of PagerDuty, MoPub, Testflight, Sendbird, and Scopely. Embrace was selected by YCombinator to participate in the highly selective YC Growth program for their highest potential growth-stage companies. Embrace is based in Culver City, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. The repeat founding team also started Scopely, a $3B+ unicorn mobile startup.

Companies rely on the Embrace to connect end-user data to engineering decisioning to drive deeper understanding, achieve SLOs, and improve business objectives. Embrace’s distribution for OpenTelemetry gives teams the transparency, portability, and extensibility they want in modern observability instrumentation, while Embrace's data backend and analysis platform is enterprise-supported for powerful mobile performance insights. By tying frontend mobile telemetry to backend performance data, Embrace helps companies modernize their observability practice, resolve app performance issues, and deliver the best user experiences possible.

Compensation for this role is $150k-$180k. There is, in addition, equity offered in the form of options, health / vision / dental benefits, free PTO, and the opportunity to learn and excel in a growth stage tech organization.