Senior iOS Engineer

The Opportunity

In this role, you will autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users from proposal through to postmortem assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria. You will also:

• Step up to resolve product issues – large and small.
• Identify opportunities to increase searches and enhance the standard of trust online.
• Own major application features and take responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
• Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions and code reviews.
• Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.
• Always work to improve the quality of the codebase.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
• Significant iOS engineering experience (7+ years), with experience working on at least two large native iOS applications.
• Experience programming in Swift.
• Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc., mobile threading, and memory management, and how they apply to mobile applications.
• A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and to collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.
• Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly