Senior iOS Engineer

Posted 13 days ago

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

To apply for any of our engineering roles, please visit Greenhouse: https://boards.greenhouse.io/speechify/.

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What You’ll Do

Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
Work within a dedicated product team
Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture
Have the opportunity to work on features that will change millions lives

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product.
Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support PMs and designers into taking the right direction
Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
Technical skills. Swift, RXSwift, programmatic UI, strong knowledge in architectural patterns, multi-threading, (bonus) Combine, UiKit, & SwiftUI

Technical Requirements:

Swift Programming Language (min. 2 years)
SwiftUI experience (1 year)
Core Data/Realm/firebase/GRDB work experience
Experience in a Multithreading Programming
You must be able to describe Imperative and Declarative Programming differences, functional reactive VS OOP, key pros and cons
Working with CI/CD infrastructure
Experience with Fastlane
Architectural Pattern knowledge like MVVM and MVVM+C and experience in practice min. 2 years
Experience with Functional Reactive Programming min 2 years - fluent with RxSwift && RxCocoa || Combine
Knowledge of Programming Paradigms
SOLID principles, ability to write every single class according to SOLID
Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies
Experience with APNS and Push Notifications
XCTests practical experience
You should be able to:
- Describe disadvantages of OOP
- Write fully protocol oriented classes in Swift
- Must know who is Uncle Bob, Martin Fowler, Alan Key and how they've contributed to the field