Senior Software Engineer - iOS

Harmonic

$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience building user-facing iOS applications.
  • Strong intuition for product and design with a history of creating polished iOS experiences.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous problems independently.
  • Customer-focused with a passion for enhancing user experience.
  • Experienced in modern mobile architecture and flexible in ideas.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship Harmonic's first iOS app from scratch, overseeing all phases of development.
  • Collaborate with Product and Design to create high-quality interactive experiences.
  • Make technical decisions and mentor future iOS hires as a founding engineer.
  • Establish scalable architectures and testing strategies to support future growth.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the company's mobile engineering strategy.
  • Collaborative environment with Product and Design teams.
  • Emphasis on high-quality user experience and design standards.
  • Role offers significant ownership and responsibility in app development.
Full Job Description
About the Team

This role works directly with our Scout and Discovery teams, bringing our agentic search experience directly to the masses. You'll think about how to create world-class mobile experiences that let our end users unlock insights from our data moat in an entirely new way.

This is a founding iOS engineering role, which means you'll drive a lot of the strategy yourself, working closely with Design and Product to think about how we create cohesion between our web and mobile experiences, while still celebrating what mobile can uniquely bring to our customers.

Here's a preview of the app:

Who You Are
  • You have 5+ years building and maintaining user-facing iOS applications with real production usage.
  • You have clear product and design intuition, demonstrated by a history of creating user-focused iOS experiences with high craft and polish.
  • You can take ambiguous problems and build real solutions for them, without needing the path laid out for you.
  • You're customer obsessed. You love building products for customers and are always looking to improve their experience.
  • You have strong but flexible opinions on what great iOS engineering looks like: opinionated and experienced in modern mobile architecture, patterns, and best practices, but open to having your mind changed.
  • You're NYC-based and open to being in office 3 days a week.
What You'll Do
  • Build and ship the iOS app from scratch. Own the end-to-end development of Harmonic's first iOS app, from project setup and architecture to shipping the initial product experience. Turn ideas into polished, production-ready features quickly.
  • Create exceptional product experiences. Partner directly with Product and Design leads to craft world-class interactive experiences, leaning into AI-native chat UX and setting the quality standard for Harmonic's mobile interactions. Your work will define what "great" feels like in a native iOS app.
  • Drive technical decisions and mentor future hires. As the founding iOS engineer, set the bar and help shape how mobile operates at Harmonic long-term.
  • Create scalable abstractions and foundations. Set up testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, modular architecture, and reusable components and patterns that let a future mobile team move fast without breaking things.
Our Process
  1. Recruiter Screening: 20 mins
  2. Technical Screening (Debugging): 45 mins
  3. Technical Screening (System Design): 45 mins
  4. Jam Session: 2 hours
  5. Behavioral interviews with our Head of Engineering and CEO: 30 mins each
  6. References

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