Senior Software Engineer II - Mobile, iOS
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at urbancompass. New York · $176,000–$196,100 base.
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What you'll do
- Break product goals into manageable work, then lead complex iOS projects through planning, implementation and release
- Shape product decisions with Product and Design, offering technical input and proposing architecture changes for new experiences
- Help the team weigh technical options, explain the trade-offs and settle on a practical approach
- Review code and designs, write tests, and maintain service documentation, monitoring, alerts and runbooks
- Mentor junior engineers and improve development workflows while maintaining code quality and operational standards
What you bring
- At least eight years building, architecting and maintaining iOS apps released through the App Store
- A computer science degree or equivalent hands-on background
- Strong Swift skills, including SwiftUI and Swift Concurrency, plus knowledge of mobile architecture and Apple's deployment ecosystem
- Experience leading projects from planning to release, dividing work across a team and supporting junior engineers
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced iOS engineer who can lead complex work independently and mentor junior teammates. You'll work closely with engineering, Product and Design, and may lead other engineers on projects. The stated base salary range is $176,000 to $196,100 per year.
From the employer
At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
We are looking for an experienced iOS engineer to help Compass build a platform that makes the home buying or selling experience delightful. You will be one of the technical leaders in your immediate team. You will work with other engineers and your Product and Design counterparts to take projects from idea to done with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. You will be responsible for understanding Product requirements and the customer problems they are aiming to solve, distilling them into manageable subparts that can be divided across other engineers on the project.
During a project’s execution, you will act as a leader ensuring any technical questions and trade offs are considered pragmatically, with a well-reasoned and understood solution being executed upon. You will guide more junior engineers with technical problems, ensuring that they follow best practices from an engineering and operational excellence perspective. Your influence won’t end once a project ships: you will be relied upon by Product and Design to give an engineering perspective on how we can iteratively improve a product to better benefit our customers. Outside of product-driven projects, you will work with other engineers to determine how to push our platform forward, devising engineering-led initiatives that ensure we can work quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high standard of operational excellence. You will also act as a mentor for more junior engineers, helping them grow from both a technical and career perspective.
What you will do:
- Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
- Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
- Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
- Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
- Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
- Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
- Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
- Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
- Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
- Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
- Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
- Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence
- BS in CS or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional iOS development experience building, architecting, and maintaining production-grade applications shipped to the App Store. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in modern Swift practices, including SwiftUI and Swift Concurrency, along with a strong grasp of scalable mobile architecture and the Apple deployment ecosystem.
- Ability to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers
- Master Computer Science fundamentals and iOS design patterns and best practices
- A sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful way.
- Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineers
- Experience with AI tools
- Experience integrating with RESTful server-side services
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Passion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow
Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $176,000-$196,100; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
Do your best work, be your authentic self. At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.
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