Senior iOS Engineer

You.com is a personalized AI Assistant that makes you more productive, creative, and extraordinary.

About the role:

Dive into the heart of innovation with You.com! As a pioneering Senior iOS Engineer, you'll spearhead the development and launch of groundbreaking iOS applications. Collaborate with our dynamic, cross-functional teams to turn visionary ideas into reality. You're not just building apps; you're crafting experiences that dazzle and delight millions. From concept through to launch and beyond, you'll lead every phase with creativity and expertise, making an indelible mark on the mobile landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Innovate and Architect: Design and construct sophisticated applications for the iOS platform, setting new benchmarks for excellence.
• Collaborate and Influence: Join forces with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, design, and deploy features that break new ground.
• Assure Quality: Harness your expertise to unit-test code for robustness, usability, and reliability, turning challenges into triumphs.
• Enhance and Optimize: Tackle bug fixing and enhance application performance, ensuring our apps run like a dream.
• Explore and Implement: Be on the forefront of technological exploration, adopting new techniques to amplify development efficiency.
• Lead and Inspire: Direct the architecture and coding of complex modules, mentoring your team to achieve greatness together.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experienced Developer: 4-6 years of solid experience in software development, specifically with a proven track record in iOS app development and launching impactful applications in the App Store.
• Swift Expertise: Profound knowledge of Swift, with the capability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Advanced SwiftUI & UIKit Proficiency: Expert-level skills in SwiftUI and UIKit, with a demonstrated ability to craft complex, user-centric interfaces that elevate the user experience.
• Combine Framework Mastery: Strong proficiency in the Combine framework, adept at implementing reactive programming patterns for sophisticated data flow and asynchronous operations management.
• Architectural Acumen: Significant experience in architecting large-scale iOS applications, showcasing an understanding of design patterns, and best practices, and structuring apps for scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance.
• Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Demonstrated technical leadership, guiding teams through complex development challenges, and providing mentorship to junior developers to foster their professional growth.
• Comprehensive Tech Stack Knowledge: A broad understanding of the iOS tech stack, with the ability to integrate various frameworks and third-party libraries seamlessly.
• Lifecycle Management Expertise: Deep familiarity with the full mobile development lifecycle, ensuring excellence from initial concept through to deployment and beyond.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional problem-solving skills, capable of addressing complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.
• Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform (Nice to Have): Familiarity with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a plus, indicating an interest in or experience with developing cross-platform applications that share logic between iOS and Android.

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent, and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists, Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for the field of NLP, particularly in the areas of word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.