ABOUT THE ROLE

The Staff iOS Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership across our iOS and tvOS platforms. In this role, you’ll architect scalable mobile solutions, influence the long-term technical direction of the platform, and partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to deliver applications used by millions of users.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll set technical direction through architecture, mentorship, and engineering standards. You’ll also identify opportunities to improve developer workflows through automation and internal tooling. This is a unique opportunity to join an ambitious mobile team using agentic workflows to build and ship high-quality features at lightning speed!

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect and implement major features across the FOX News iOS and tvOS applications.
• Drive the technical strategy for the mobile platform, including modularization, build system performance, developer tooling, and long-term platform evolution.
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, pair programming, and architectural guidance.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to define requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and deliver mobile features.
• Own application performance, reliability, observability, and crash-free rate targets across the iOS and tvOS platforms.
• Lead the adoption of modern Apple frameworks and APIs, including SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, WidgetKit, Live Activities, and CarPlay where applicable.
• Design and maintain shared component libraries, networking layers, dependency injection infrastructure, and reusable platform services.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs—including analytics, advertising, video, and community platforms—with an emphasis on stability, performance, privacy, and minimal application footprint.
• Establish engineering standards for architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and code quality.
• Identify opportunities to build internal developer tools and automations, including AI-powered solutions where appropriate, to improve engineering workflows.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and production triage for mobile-specific issues while driving long-term platform reliability improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, including at least 2 years operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or in a comparable technical leadership role.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency (async/await, actors, structured concurrency).
• Deep experience architecting, building, and shipping large-scale consumer applications on the App Store.
• Strong understanding of iOS application architecture, including MVVM, Coordinator patterns, modular and multi-target project structures, dependency injection, and scalable application design.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode or similar) to support software development and improve engineering productivity.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Experience with video playback, streaming technologies, and media frameworks on Apple platforms.
• Strong experience with XCTest, XCUITest, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release management.
• Demonstrated ability to build developer tooling or automation that improves team efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and influence stakeholders across engineering and business teams.
• Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position. Selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Experience building internal developer platforms, engineering productivity tools, or workflow automations.
• Experience with Swift Package Manager and maintaining modular codebases.
• Familiarity with Apple’s latest frameworks and platform capabilities.
• Experience working in digital media, publishing, or content-driven consumer applications.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI services into internal developer tools.

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