Senior iOS Software Engineer, Design Systems

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For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start‑up mindset and enterprise‑level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself—Dropbox is ready for you.

The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work.

As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Design System Team, you will play a central role in enabling consistent, scalable, and delightful product experiences across our native applications. You will help define and evolve our design system foundations, ensuring engineers and designers can build with speed, quality, and cohesion. In this role, you’ll gain exposure to senior leadership, influence design and engineering practices across teams, and contribute to the evolution of a system that empowers millions of users.

• System foundations: Building reusable iOS components and frameworks that serve as the backbone of our product experience.
• Collaboration & advocacy: Partnering with designers, Android peers, and product engineers to ensure multi‑platform design system cohesion and adoption.
• Scalability & innovation: Driving long‑term architecture, accessibility, and performance standards that support product growth at scale.
• Developer experience: Improving documentation, workflows, and tooling to make using the design system frictionless for engineers.

• Build, maintain, and evolve Dropbox’s DIG design system iOS component library using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
• Translate Figma designs and tokens into accurate, maintainable UI components.
• Collaborate with cross‑platform peers (Android, Web) to ensure consistency and parity.
• Define and maintain versioning, governance, and release processes for design system components.
• Improve internal documentation, onboarding, and tooling to accelerate adoption.
• Provide support and advocacy across product teams via code reviews, pairing, and developer experience improvements.
• Ensure design system components meet accessibility, performance, and testability standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
• 8+ years of professional iOS development experience with proven contributions to shared UI libraries or design systems.
• Strong proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit; familiarity with modern paradigms (Combine, Swift Concurrency, MVVM).
• Solid understanding of Apple HIG and accessibility (WCAG) standards.
• Experience with design‑to‑code workflows (e.g., Figma tokens, variables, tooling integrations).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to align engineers and designers.
• Track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, or automation for design system workflows.

• Experience scaling design systems in multi‑platform environments (iOS, Android, Web).
• Working knowledge of Objective‑C or additional mobile platforms.
• Experience with the Android ecosystem also a plus.
• Familiarity with performance optimization, UI testing, or analytics instrumentation.
• Experience contributing to open‑source design systems or developer tooling.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading cross‑functional initiatives.

Canada Pay Range: $184,500—$249,500 CAD.

The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh.
• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more.
• Mental health and wellness benefits.
• Monthly Internet Allowance.
• Intern Social Stipend.
• Annual Emerging Talent Summit, travel and hotel accommodations provided.

Additional Benefits Details Are Available Upon Request.

• Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided.
• Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

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Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.