theathletic - The Athletic Media Company - Senior Software Engineer, Mobile iOS

London2mo ago

In Office Senior EMEA Media Senior Software Engineer Senior Editor Reporting Swift Git Claude GraphQL

Requirements

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

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.