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WhatsApp - Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - iOS

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1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship iOS client features focused on performance, reliability, and responsiveness.
  • Own iOS client architecture for payments, commerce, and money-centric WhatsApp Services experiences.
  • Work with Swift, Objective-C, the iOS SDK, and server and platform teams on API design.
  • Solve complex technical problems and identify opportunities for new technology.
  • Set technical direction across multiple teams and own architecture for a major product area.
  • Lead organization-wide initiatives and resolve ambiguity in product and technical decisions.
  • Drive engineering standards, quality, and craft across the pillar.
  • Mentor engineers and influence product, design, data science, and other cross-functional partners.
  • Partner with payments, legal, compliance, and local operations teams to meet reliability and regulatory requirements in India.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language, or 8+ years with a PhD.
  • Experience working across functions to drive solutions and using data to explain technical problems.
  • Experience driving large cross-functional or industry-wide engineering efforts.
  • Track record of planning multi-year roadmaps connecting short-term projects to long-term goals.
  • Experience mentoring and influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
  • Preferred experience with Indian markets, UPI, and India's digital payments ecosystem.
  • Preferred experience with multithreading, mobile memory management, Objective-C, C++, Swift, the iOS SDK, and complex iPhone or iPad applications.
  • Preferred experience designing and operating large-scale payment systems and leading distributed teams across multiple sites.
  • Preferred experience with technical strategy, global consumer products, high release cadence, responsible AI, AI workflow tools, prompt/context engineering, and agent orchestration.
  • Preferred experience establishing technical foundations for a zero-to-one organization or product area, and familiarity with messaging, super-app, monetization, payments, commerce, or AI/ML products.

Tech Stack

C++iOSObjective-CSwift

Categories

Mobile
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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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