Job Description
As a Senior iOS Software Engineer on the Mobile Performance & Reliability team, you would join the foundational team responsible for driving mobile application quality across all of Square. You would tackle challenges across our entire suite of apps and in some cases the entire iOS platform. You would work closely with teams to diagnose and solve complex reliability issues and optimize performance for our sellers.
You will:
• Identify, scope, and lead complex, mobile projects with wide impact across the company
• Gather functional and technical requirements and translate them into detailed architecture and design
• Design highly available, and resilient systems which can operate no matter the network or device conditions
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the company including product, design, legal, support, and other engineering teams
• Provide mentorship, expertise and design reviews for engineering teams across Square.
• Contribute to the direction of the team and prioritization of the projects on our roadmap
Qualifications
You have:
• Deep understanding of the iOS Platform and Swift
• Ability to break down complex projects into components or milestones that can easily be picked up by other engineers
• Skill to investigate and identify the root cause of an issue in an unfamiliar codebase
• Motivation to influence our engineering organization to level-up the reliability and performance of the mobile apps we ship.
• Demonstrated collaboration with co-workers on cross-functional teams
• A strong sense of ownership
• Desire to understand and alleviate developer pain points
• Desire to facilitate adoption through high-quality documentation, tutorials, samples and pairing
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
Nice to have:
• Experience building engineering tools or profilers related to performance or reliability
• Experience as a maintainer or contributor to Open Source projects
• Experience optimizing performance of iOS applications
• Experience working in a large engineering organization (hundreds of mobile engineers
