Lead iOS Engineer & Mobile Team Lead

Are you passionate about building exceptional mobile experiences and leading high-performing engineering teams? At the company, we’re looking for a seasoned iOS Architect & Director of Mobile Engineering to guide our mobile strategy, lead a talented team, and drive the technical evolution of our mobile apps used daily by thousands of businesses every day.

As iOS Architect

• Own the architectural direction of our 100% native iOS app built in Swift and Objective-C.

• Design scalable, performant, and testable solutions for features support appointment scheduling, payments, and customer engagement.

• Identify and lead technical initiatives that improve code structure, reliability, and scalability.

• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to ensure seamless API integration and efficient client-server interactions.

• Lead mobile-focused technical explorations and POCs to evaluate new technologies and tooling.

As Director of Mobile Engineering

• Lead and grow our 5-person mobile development team, fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and innovation.

• Define and drive engineering best practices for clean, maintainable code and efficient workflows.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, QA, and the CTO to deliver high-impact features.

• Support sprint planning, milestone delivery, and long-term roadmap execution.

• Mentor engineers, conduct regular 1:1s, and champion career development and team growth.

This role requires collaborating with our CTO, Designers, Product Managers, and QA team to build and maintain a fast, reliable, app. We deeply value ownership, empowerment, proactivity, data-driven decisions, and user focus. At the end of the day, you'll be bringing our app to the next level following best practices with tests, deployments, optimization

If you have expert level iOS architecting skills and enjoy managing a team to produce their best work, then this is a great opportunity for you!

Out of the gate you'll be expected to

• Guide iOS and Android engineering teams to ensure the consistent application of architectural principles.

• Proactively seek feedback across our Engineering team to deeply understand our APIs and application logic.

• Engage with internal teams to identify technical enablers, infrastructure, and architectural needs for new mobile features and improved scalability.

• Monitor technical solution maturity, ensure proper client back-end communication patterns, and partner with backend engineers to ensure proper solutions are in place.

• Oversee operational stability for mobile applications, ensuring high standards of performance, monitoring, and alerting practices are in place for mobile reliability.

• Refactor existing code to be more testable, write internal documentation, ensure rigorous test coverage.

• Conduct technological POCs and investigations.

• Develop meaningful relationships with all contributors to our product and technology development. Our mantra is collaboration and inclusion.

• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings with team members to provide feedback, support their career development, and regular team performance management.

Within 6 months you'll...

• Compose architectural solutions and documentation of high-level mobile product specifications, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and optimal resource use across iOS and Android platforms.

• Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other.

• Understand major feature areas of our mobile applications and be comfortable switching from one to the other.

• Participate in the architecture and implementation of new user-facing features. We communicate and collaborate on our architecture to achieve security, scalability, and maximum learning.

• Provide feedback during code-reviews.

• Play a core role in hiring, onboarding, and building the next generation of the company mobile engineers.

• Make a valued impact on multiple products across our platforms. We celebrate our success by measuring our impact, internally and externally.

You Should Apply If

• You have built, designed and implemented a large piece of an iOS application, and would like to put your experience into building the company's platform.

• You have experience building complex applications that handle immense amounts of data using Objective C and/or Swift.

• You make decisions based on data and evidence.

• You enjoy iterative, agile development process with frequent releases.

• You take great pleasure in writing quality, highly maintainable code.

• You have experience with various iOS libraries and tooling.

• You find excitement in learning new business models and transferring such knowledge into beautiful software design.

• You like collaborating with multiple stakeholders within and outside the engineering team towards common goal.

• 9+ years of native iOS development experience including enterprise level experience architecting and developing native iOS mobile technologies
• Proven experience in technology leadership roles such as Architect, Tech Lead, or Team Lead, with a strong ability to design, build, and operate scalable, robust systems.
• Demonstrable track record of building and maintaining high-load, client-backend applications.
• Strategic mindset to define and drive big-picture goals combined with the technical expertise to provide hands-on guidance and detailed support to the team.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous inputs from multiple stakeholders into clear, actionable plans and document technical decisions effectively.

The company is an incredible place to work and grow your expertise!  We provide a competitive base salary, performance bonus, startup equity, and healthcare benefits.  We offer a transparent and exciting startup culture that is singularly focused on empowering people to make an impact in their jobs. We’re growing fast and solving a big problem, providing our employees the opportunity to make the tremendous impact that leads to true professional fulfilment. If you're interested, we'd love to talk!

The company is a fully integrated scheduling, payments and automated marketing platform, specializing in large multi-location chains and franchises. Our mission critical software -- which includes in-store scheduling and online booking, client record management, email and SMS marketing, and a full point of sale for handling payments -- is used in every aspect of the customer journey. Our customers rely on their service businesses to remain competitive in the age of Amazon, and they need a next generation POS to help them achieve this growth. We aspire to be the “operating system” of their business.

We also made it easy to plug our online booking, payments and messaging capabilities into the places customers are found today, including Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, and the merchants’ own websites and mobile apps. Upon adopting the company, our customers see average revenue growth of up to 30% through improved operational efficiency, greater customer retention, and access to new customer acquisition channels.

Our product is used at over 14,000 locations across the globe, ranging from single-location sole proprietors to multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 chains.  As a completely cloud-based solution, the company is designed for quick and easy deployments. It’s lauded for its ease-of-use and short ramp-up time, having won numerous awards such as the Best Commerce Product of 2017 from the Local Search Association.

Come help us realize our vision of becoming the world’s leading online scheduling and local commerce platform!