Senior Software Engineer, iOS
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at thrivemarket. Remote, United States · $175,000–$190,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Lead complex iOS features from technical design through implementation
- Modernize legacy UIKit code by moving it toward modular architecture and a shared design system
- Find and fix crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks to support stable app sessions
- Work with product managers to turn business needs into technical plans and achievable sprint goals
- Review code, write unit tests, share engineering practices, and contribute to architecture decisions
What you bring
- At least seven years of iOS development experience
- Strong Swift skills and the ability to work in codebases that mix Swift and Objective-C
- Hands-on experience with SwiftUI, UIKit, and MVVM or a comparable architecture
- Experience with reactive programming, local storage and caching, unit tests, and test doubles
- Experience using LLM coding assistants and familiarity with agent-based development
Who this fits
This senior iOS role suits an engineer who can modernize a legacy app while partnering with Product and Design on personalized shopping experiences. You must be based in the United States and travel to the Los Angeles headquarters twice a year for company summits.
From the employer
THE ROLE
This Senior Software Engineer, iOS role is central to Thrive Market’s next phase of growth. Our iOS app serves our most engaged members and is a critical driver of how customers discover, evaluate, and shop an ever-evolving catalog. As the business continues to invest in personalization, experimentation, and modern product development, we’re expanding our iOS capabilities to ensure the platform can scale with both customer demand and product ambition.
In this role, you’ll help evolve our iOS app from a legacy-heavy foundation into a modern, maintainable, and high-velocity codebase. Near-term, that means stabilizing the platform, reducing technical debt, and leading the migration to a modular architecture and modern design system. Longer-term, you’ll partner closely with Product and Design in a true Product Triad to build deeply personalized, data-informed shopping experiences, leveraging analytics, experimentation, and ML-driven insights to help members discover the right products at the right time.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the end-to-end design and implementation of complex features.
- Maintain high code quality through rigorous code reviews, unit testing, and adherence to SOLID principles.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks, memory leaks, and crashes to ensure a 99.9% crash-free session rate.
- Work alongside Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and realistic sprint goals.
- Stay at the forefront of the Apple ecosystem (WWDC updates, Swift evolution) and integrate relevant technologies into our workflow.
- Contribute to the growth of the team by sharing knowledge, documenting best practices, and participating in architectural discussions.
- Building a deeply personalized shopping experience that makes every member feel like the app was built just for them.
- You’ll be a key player in migrating legacy UIKit components into a modular, reactive architecture with a Design System DSL.
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering in a tight feedback loop (the "Product Triad"), ensuring we aren't just shipping code, but solving the right problems for our members.
- From butter-smooth animations to ensuring our app is accessible to everyone, you’ll be the guardian of the "look and feel" of our iOS experience.
- You'll join an engineering culture committed to moving from scrappy startup mode to mature systems mode, with opportunities to take on meaty, impactful engineering projects.
QUALIFICATIONS (Required)
- 7+ years of iOS development experience
- Strong proficiency in Swift; ability to work in mixed Swift/Objective-C codebases
- Strong understanding of application architecture and the “why’s” behind it
- Experience with LLM coding assistants. Familiarity with the current state of agentic development
- Experience with SwiftUI and UIKit
- Experience with MVVM or similar architectural patterns
- Experience with reactive programming (Combine, RxSwift, or ReactiveObjC)
- Experience with local persistence and caching strategies
- Experience writing unit tests and working with mocks/test doubles
- Understanding of dependency injection and writing testable code
- Familiarity with modular architecture using Swift Package Manager (SPM)
- Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Experience migrating legacy codebases (Objective-C → Swift, UIKit → SwiftUI)
NICE TO HAVE
- E-commerce or consumer app experience
- Familiarity with analytics platforms (Amplitude, etc.)
- Experience with A/B testing / feature flagging (Optimizely, LaunchDarkly)
- Experience with accessibility implementation (VoiceOver, Dynamic Type)
- Experience with Native Android Applications e.g. Kotlin, Kotlin Multi-Platform, etc.
BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
- 401k plan
- 9 Observed Holidays
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
- Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
- Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
- Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
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JOB INFORMATION- Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $190,000/Per Year.
- Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location.
- Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!
- This position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for all-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.