Senior iOS Engineer - Mobile Foundation

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Bumble is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our Mobile Foundation team and help empower fellow iOS engineers, as well as wider mobile teams, to deliver an amazing experience to our end users. You'll be joining a team of experienced native iOS and Android engineers who are unstoppable when it comes to solving technical challenges.

The Mobile Foundation team sits within our Mobile Platform Group, which is core to enabling the success of Bumble, Badoo, and BFF Apps. The group provides mobile engineering teams with industry-leading, highly reliable, and fit-for-purpose frameworks, tools, services, and integrations for development, deployment, and quality control. The Mobile Foundation team assesses, develops, and educates best practices for other engineers, leads the evolution of our architecture patterns and principles, and constantly explores opportunities to optimise both our core frameworks and development processes.

What you'll do

• Explore all the new features of the Swift language and iOS Core Frameworks, and establish best practices for using them
• Participate in the development and evolution of our architecture approach, inspired by TCA (The Composable Architecture)
• Drive the evolution of our core frameworks, such as Networking, Image Loading, Analytics and others
• Explore ways to optimise the performance of our apps, components, and code
• Develop cadence and strong ways of partnering with mobile development teams
• Continuously improve the Mobile Foundation team's offerings by maintaining a robust feedback loop with mobile engineers

About you

• Up to date with the latest Swift and iOS trends, with extensive iOS application development experience in Swift
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and Object-Oriented Programming
• Strong knowledge of concurrency models and tools: GCD, Swift Concurrency
• Experience working with protobuf, gRPC, and socket-based networking is desirable
• Mastery of Xcode debugging
• Knowledge of Objective-C and Runtime is a plus, but not a requirement
• Solid communication skills, strong team-working capability, and a desire to influence and mentor other developers
• Attention to detail, structural thinking, and a passion for software design
• You are excited about change

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the centre and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.