Member of Technical Staff, iOS Engineer
At a glance
Senior Mobile Engineering role at Profound. New York · full-time · $160,000–$230,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and release native iOS features from start to finish, including mobile dashboards and reporting for live data
- Set the iOS app’s technical foundations, choosing its architecture, tools, and engineering practices
- Work with backend engineers on APIs and with designers to turn product needs into polished native screens
- Keep the app fast and dependable, and handle notifications, background updates, automated tests, and App Store releases
- Use product and customer input to prioritize mobile experiences, and guide future iOS hires
What you bring
- At least five years of professional work building and releasing native iOS apps
- Strong Swift and SwiftUI skills, plus working knowledge of UIKit
- Experience with iOS architecture, REST and JSON APIs, asynchronous networking, and App Store release workflows
- You can profile and debug app performance with tools such as Instruments
Who this fits
This senior, foundational role suits an iOS engineer ready to set technical direction and own features through release. You’ll work on-site in the New York City or San Francisco office. Visa sponsorship is available for qualified international candidates.
From the employer
Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.
Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.
As an iOS Engineer at Profound, you will build and own the native mobile experience that brings our AI Marketer to our customers' pockets. You will work closely with design, backend, and product to ship a fast, polished app that gives marketers visibility into their AI presence anywhere. This is a foundational role: you will set the technical direction for iOS at Profound from the ground up.
What you'll do
Design, build, and ship new features for Profound's native iOS app, end to end
Establish the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards for the iOS codebase
Build fast, reliable interfaces for real-time data, dashboards, and reporting on mobile
Partner with backend engineers to design APIs that serve mobile use cases well
Work closely with design to translate product requirements into polished, native experiences
Own app performance, stability, and release quality, including crash rates and load times
Implement push notifications, background refresh, and other native platform capabilities
Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and App Store releases
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Swift code
Collaborate with product and customers to identify what mobile experiences matter most
Stay current with Apple platform changes and adopt new APIs where they add real value
Mentor future iOS hires as the team grows
Who you are
5 or more years of professional experience building and shipping native iOS applications
Strong proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, with solid knowledge of UIKit
Experience with iOS app architecture patterns, including state management and navigation
Comfort working with REST APIs, JSON, and asynchronous networking
Experience shipping apps through the App Store, including review, TestFlight, and release processes
Familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and a strong sense of product craft
Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools like Instruments
Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with shifting priorities
Strong ownership mentality, from architecture decisions to shipped features
Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across design, product, and backend
Genuine excitement about AI and its impact on how marketing teams work
Growth mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity and rapid change
Location
This is an on-site role in our NYC or SF office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates.
For this role, the expected base salary range is $160,000 to $230,000 (NYC and SF). Comp may vary by location. Profound's total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.
Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.
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