Staff Software Engineer, iOS - Subscription Growth

Role overview Provide senior technical leadership for iOS subscription experiences, supporting experimentation, subscription management, and premium features across a consumer mobile app. You’ll work across disciplines and platforms to improve subscriber journeys, balance rapid learning with stability, and help other teams build consistently within the subscription ecosystem.

Responsibilities - Guide experiments and A/B tests for upsell placements, paywalls, and promotional offers. - Improve subscription experiences across acquisition, account management, and retention. - Use subscriber behavior and product data to inform decisions and refine premium offerings. - Build and enhance shared premium capabilities that other teams can use in their app experiences. - Partner with design, product, backend, Android, web, and infrastructure colleagues to solve cross-team problems. - Set strong practices for design, testing, security, and release quality, while coaching teammates.

Requirements - 8+ years of iOS engineering experience and experience publishing iOS applications. - Advanced proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, and iOS frameworks such as UIKit and Foundation. - Extensive experience writing unit tests, building testable code, and refactoring application architecture. - Experience with multithreaded programming and relational databases. - Experience automating iOS app builds and publication. - Pragmatic judgment when making decisions for high-visibility work that combines experimentation with reliability.

Nice to have - Experience with payment systems or App Store Connect. - Familiarity with pair or mob programming, XP, TDD, BDD, or other collaborative and test-focused practices. - Experience modernizing large legacy codebases, including Objective-C to Swift migrations. - Contributions to Android, web, or backend applications.

Benefits and work setup The listed US salary range is $160,000–$210,000, with compensation depending on qualifications and experience. The source also describes medical, dental, and vision benefits and a retirement plan with an employer match.