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WhatsApp - Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - iOS

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4 days ago
São Paulo, BrazilStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship iOS client features for WhatsApp Services with strong performance, reliability, and responsiveness.
  • Own iOS client architecture for payments, commerce, and other money-centric services surfaces.
  • Work with Swift, Objective-C, and the iOS SDK while partnering with server and platform teams on API design.
  • Solve complex technical problems and identify technology that can address previously intractable challenges.
  • Set technical direction across multiple teams and own architecture for a major product area.
  • Lead organization-wide initiatives, resolve product and technical ambiguity, and drive multi-year roadmaps.
  • Establish engineering standards and improve quality, craft, team effectiveness, and system impact.
  • Mentor senior engineers and influence product, design, data science, operations, legal, compliance, and payments partners.
  • Build services that meet reliability and regulatory requirements for the Brazilian market.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 12 years of relevant programming experience, or at least 8 years of experience with a PhD.
  • Experience working across functions to drive solutions and using data analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback.
  • Experience driving large cross-functional or industry-wide engineering efforts and planning multi-year roadmaps.
  • Experience mentoring and influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
  • Preferred experience building complex iPhone or iPad applications with Objective-C, C++, Swift, the iOS SDK, and other frameworks.
  • Preferred experience with multithreading, mobile memory management, high-cadence releases, Brazilian payments including Pix, and payment systems at scale.
  • Preferred experience in monetization, payments, commerce, AI/ML products, zero-to-one organizations, global multi-market products, distributed teams, or messaging and mobile-first consumer products.
  • Preferred experience integrating AI tools into workflows, implementing responsible AI practices, and developing skills in prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.

Tech Stack

C++Objective-CSwift

Categories

Mobile
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About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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