The Athletic

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile iOS (UK)

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Job Description

About the Role

Our ideal candidate will own key aspects of our native iOS application and contribute to our core features and architecture. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can build beautiful, polished user experiences and architect elegant, maintainable code. We prioritize code quality and performance above all else. Successful candidates keep up-to-date with best practices and have a familiarity with the latest frameworks from Apple. 

You can check out our current iOS app here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317



Responsibilities
  • Work alongside other iOS and Android engineers to maintain a high quality platform on which we can build amazing mobile apps that our readers love.
  • Optimize our platform for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.
  • Be a steward for platform-specific fidelity and native integrations (e.g. Widgets)
  • Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality
  • Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.
  • Collaborate with Full Stack, Design, Product, and Data teams to engineer complete, end-to-end solutions that prioritize observability and experimentation.

    • Requirements
  • 5+ years’ professional experience with native iOS development in Swift.
  • Solid understanding of multi-threaded networking, especially async/await.
  • Practical experience with MVVM pattern.
  • Our app is almost entirely SwiftUI, therefore a high level of comfort with it is required to be successful.
  • Consumer facing product and design instincts with desire to have a voice in product decisions.
  • Knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer code review.
  • Claude Code and GraphQL experience a plus.

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