Senior Software Engineer, Mobile iOS (UK)

About the Role

Our ideal candidate will own key aspects of our native iOS application and contribute to our core features and architecture. 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.

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 quality
• Investigate, 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

• 5+ 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.
• Knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer code review.
• Claude Code and GraphQL experience a plus.

Benefits

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.