Senior / Staff iOS Engineer

Utopai Studios
Mountain View, United States of America
7 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Mountain View, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
App Store (IOS)
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Video Capture
UIKit
React
Swiftui
Information Technology
Code Restructuring
Crud

Job description

We're looking for a Senior or Staff iOS Engineer who builds the interfaces creators actually live in. You'll own the iOS app end-to-end - the capture flow, the editor, the agent interactions, the moments where someone goes from a half-formed idea to a finished scene on their phone - and you'll ship it yourself.

This isn't a role where mobile means a thin wrapper around a web view. You'll architect the client, shape the interaction model, work directly with our research and design teams, and turn agent capabilities into responsive, native-feeling creative tools. The hard problems here aren't standard CRUD - you'll be inventing how humans collaborate with models on video, on a phone, at speed.

How You Work

  • Engineering craft. You sweat the details - frame rate, gesture feel, memory pressure, the way a transition lands. You have a high bar and it shows in everything you ship.
  • Ship fast. You'd rather get something in front of users this week than architect it for a month. You know when to refactor and when to land it.
  • AI-native. You're already using Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools to extend what you can build. AI is part of your workflow, not a novelty.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of iOS experience, with at least some of it at the senior or staff level
  • Deep iOS expertise - Swift, SwiftUI and/or UIKit, the actual mental model, not just the API surface
  • Experience shipping and maintaining apps in the App Store at real scale
  • Experience architecting non-trivial iOS apps - state management, offline behavior, sync, performance on mid-tier devices
  • A sharp eye for interaction detail - you can tell when a gesture feels 50ms too slow and you know how to fix it
  • Experience with video capture, playback, or media pipelines is a strong plus
  • Android experience is a plus
  • Web/React experience is a plus
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience - we care more about what you've shipped than where you studied

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