6 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead forward-looking mobile architecture decisions aligned with company goals and business needs
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable Swift and Objective-C code
- Mentor engineers through technical issues, design decisions, and architectural trade-offs
- Drive code quality through code reviews and high engineering standards
- Architect and implement performant solutions for interactive image, video, and mixed-media manipulation
- Improve release cadence, feature flagging practices, and release management processes
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and business stakeholders and explain technical concepts clearly
- Contribute across unfamiliar areas of the stack and cross-platform efforts when needed
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience building iOS applications with Swift and/or Objective-C
- Experience owning projects end-to-end from prototypes through customer rollout
- Professional experience building consumer mobile applications at scale
- Experience with iOS media manipulation frameworks including AVFoundation, Core Image, Core Video, Core Audio, and Metal
- Experience collaborating with iOS, Android, server, and web engineers
- A track record of mentoring engineers and improving team-wide code quality
- Experience with feature flagging, release management, and observability tools such as Datadog and Crashlytics
- Strong collaboration experience with designers, product managers, and business stakeholders
- Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows
- React Native experience is preferred
- Experience with OpenGL, 3D rendering, and matrix-based transformations is preferred
- Experience integrating third-party media manipulation tools is preferred
- Familiarity with Android is preferred
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an office in San Francisco, California
- Regular in-person events
- Equity eligibility
- Medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability insurance
- Flexible time off and 11 paid holidays
- Company-paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid sick time as required by law
- Mental health resources and technology reimbursements
Tech Stack
DatadogiOSObjective-CReact NativeSwift
Categories
Mobile
About VSCO
VSCO builds photo and video creation software for photographers, best known for its iOS and Android editing app with presets and creative tools, offered via subscription. The company is expanding a workflow that spans creation, editing, and delivery, including desktop (macOS) offerings. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves a global community of photographers and creatives.