Lead iOS Mobile Engineer

Cricut is looking for a talented Lead iOS Mobile Engineer to help us take our iOS native apps to the next level. The position demands a candidate capable of doing high-quality work against technical and schedule challenges, while following strong software design and process principles. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in a dynamic team, working on cutting edge mobile technology. You are a driver of change and you have yet to meet a technological challenge you cannot resolve. You are dedicated to developing clean code that will help shape the iOS mobile software which thrills our users.

Responsibilities

1. Hands-on role where you will be working alongside the team
2. Lead technical architecture, coding standards, and other team processes and policies
3. Work with PM and UX on story refinement, articulate engineering concerns, and guide technical direction
4. Work with cross functional teams on quarterly planning and plan work for the team
5. Apply software engineering design patterns to develop well-structured, modular, performant application code
6. Work collaboratively with product manager to drive features and maintain the backlog
7. Serve as a technical mentor and know how to delegate tasks to the team
8. Perform code reviews, write unit and UI tests, and contribute to architectural planning and refactoring
9. Collaborate with API teams on API design
10. Drive software releases includes releasing apps to the App Store

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing iOS mobile native applications in Swift/SwiftUI (experience in The Composable Architecture is a big plus)
• Solid knowledge of iOS UI design principles, best practices, and development life cycle
• Experience with at least one of these design architectures: MVVM, MVC, VIPER, Clean Architecture
• Experience consuming RESTful JSON/XML web services, Open API standard (Swagger)
• Experience in testing high volume applications: unit test, integration test, performance test
• Experience with Git and GitFlow
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies
• Experience in mentoring junior members
• Experience in project management
• A solid grasp of fundamental algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
• Ability to prototype new features and redesign existing ones
• Excellent problem solving, debugging skills, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Aptitude and desire to independently learn new technologies
• Working knowledge of Internationalization

Preferred Skills

• Experience in working with offshore contractors
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery (e.g., Bitrise, GitHub Actions)
• Experience in Core Animation, Core Graphics, Core Bluetooth
• Experience in automated user interface functional testing
• Experience with iOS performance profiling tools and optimization techniques
• Experience with Google Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics