Staff Software Engineer, iOS Mobile Engineering
Staff Software Engineer, iOS Mobile Engineering
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Job Description
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is looking for a Staff iOS Mobile Engineer to join our Mobile Applications team. In this senior-most individual contributor role you will play a critical part in driving the evolution of our native iOS application crafting technical strategy and mentoring engineers across the mobile organization. Youll lead multi-functional efforts to deliver high-quality performant and fabulous mobile experiences to millions of pet parents.
Were looking for someone with a deep understanding of native iOS technologies as well as hybrid mobile architectures and WebView-based solutions. Youll influence platform direction solve sophisticated challenges at scale and elevate the technical bar for the mobile organization.
What Youll Do:
- Lead large-scale architecture initiatives and influence the mobile technical strategy across teams
- Own and evolve hybrid architecture strategies including WebView performance integration patterns and linking between native and web layers
- Design build and maintain reusable Swift components and core systems used across the Chewy iOS app
- Collaborate with engineering product and design leadership to define and complete mobile product goals
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to iOS engineers encouraging a culture of learning accountability and engineering excellence
- Drive code quality through rigorous peer reviews automated testing and development standard methodologies
- Identify performance bottlenecks and lead efforts to improve app reliability startup time and runtime efficiency
- Evangelize engineering standards architectural patterns (e.g. MVVM Coordinators) and scalable development workflows
- Stay ahead of iOS platform updates and champion the adoption of new tools frameworks (e.g. SwiftUI Combine) and approaches
- Contribute to and help maintain the CI/CD pipelines and code signing infrastructure for the iOS platform
- Partner with QA and automation engineers to ensure robust test coverage and high release confidence
What Youll Need:
- 8 years of professional experience developing native iOS applications using Swift
- Deep expertise in hybrid mobile architectures and WebView integration including performance optimization offline fallback strategies and native-web communication bridges
- Demonstrated experience leading architecture design and driving technical decisions across teams
- Strong understanding of modern iOS frameworks patterns and developer tools
- History of delivering high-quality apps at scale with frequent App Store releases
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to influence without authority
- Passion for mentoring and supporting other engineers in their growth
- Deep experience with Git pull request workflows and branching strategies
- Experience with Cocoapods or Swift Package Manager for dependency management
- Consistent record of writing and implementing unit integration and UI tests
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced distributed and collaborative environment
Bonus:
- Experience building Universal or iPad-first apps
- Deep knowledge of accessibility and UI/UX standard processes
- Experience profiling and resolving memory and performance issues with Xcode Instruments
- Familiarity with SwiftUI Combine or other modern iOS frameworks
- Experience working in Agile environments using tools like Jira or Confluence
- Hands-on experience managing iOS CI pipelines and code signing infrastructure (e.g. Fastlane Xcode Cloud GitHub Actions)
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
