Founding iOS Engineer
About The Position
Our client is building an accountability protocol — a new consumer primitive that introduces financial stakes into personal goal achievement. The company recently achieved a significant regulatory milestone, enabling launch in 46 states from day one. After months of close collaboration with regulatory counsel, they’ve established infrastructure and positioning that creates real defensibility and meaningful barriers to entry. Backed by top-tier investors and led by founders with backgrounds at Apple, Google, and leading venture firms, the team is small (4 people), technical, and execution-focused. This is a true founding engineer role. You will build the native iOS product from the ground up and help define the technical and product direction of the company. You are not joining to maintain features. You are joining to create the category.
Requirements
- 2–8 years of software engineering experience
- Strong track record building consumer-facing iOS or full-stack applications
- Strong proficiency in Swift and native iOS development
- Full-stack capability to ship features end-to-end
- Ability to contribute to backend/API design
- Strong product intuition and decision-making ability
- Cares deeply about UI, UX, polish, and performance
- Sees a founding role as part of their long-term growth story
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- High ownership, low ego, high execution velocity
- Must be based in or willing to relocate to NYC
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a top-tier consumer tech company or venture-backed startup preferred
- Demonstrated product ownership — you’ve built or owned meaningful product surfaces
- Side projects or independent builds outside work are a strong signal
- (Exceptional React Native engineers willing to ramp quickly on Swift may be considered.)
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship high-quality, production-grade Swift code
- Build a fast, elegant, consumer-facing native iOS app from early stage to scale
- Own large parts of the product end-to-end
- Collaborate directly with the cofounders on product and technical direction
- Contribute to backend/API design to support clean and scalable interactions
- Operate with autonomy in a zero-to-one environment
Benefits
- Early equity in a category-defining company
- Direct access to experienced founders
- Real ownership and autonomy
- Regulatory and infrastructure advantages already established
- Opportunity to build something that has not existed before
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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