iOS Engineer (Remote)

About Us

The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.

About the Role

The role of the platform team is to develop and maintain the tools, architecture, patterns, and systems that enable our mobile developers to produce high quality, performant applications that thrill our readers. Our ideal candidate has experience and confidence with large code refactors and migrations because their code is instrumented and well tested. This role also provides ample opportunity to contribute to user-facing application features.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can build beautiful, polished user experiences and architect elegant, maintainable code. We prioritize code quality and performance above all else. Successful candidates keep up-to-date with best practices and have a familiarity with the latest frameworks from Apple.

This role is remote in the US and Canada only.

You can check out our current iOS app here:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317

Responsibilities

• Work alongside other iOS and Android engineers to maintain a high quality platform on which we can build amazing mobile apps that our readers love.
• Optimize our platform for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.
• Be a steward for platform-specific fidelity and native integrations (e.g. Widgets).
• Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app qualityInvestigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.
• Collaborate with Full Stack, Design, Product, and Data teams to engineer complete, end-to-end solutions that prioritize observability and experimentation.

Requirements

• 2+ years’ professional experience with native iOS development in Swift.
• Solid understanding of multi-threaded networking, especially async/await.
• Practical experience with MVVM pattern.
• Our app is almost entirely SwiftUI, therefore a high level of comfort with it is required to be successful.
• Consumer facing product and design instincts with desire to have a voice in product decisions.
• GraphQL experience is a plus.