iOS Engineer

Interaction • Palo Alto, CA

2d

About The Position

We’re the makers of Poke.com, a proactive AI agent for everyday life. Interaction is a $300M consumer company backed by $27M from General Catalyst and angels such as Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Scott Wu (Cognition), Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Fred Ehrsam (Coinbase), Ken Howery (Co-Founder of PayPal and Founders Fund), and many others.

Most of Poke lives in messaging without an app download. But iOS is its own surface area: iMessage extensions, Shortcuts, widgets, Live Activities, lock screen, App Intents, and the native experiences that messaging alone cannot reach. We need an engineer who can own this surface end to end and push it as far as Apple's APIs allow.

We don't really care about experience or pedigree, we only care about slope, technical depth, obsession with craft, and how well you can build alongside us. Our current team is strongly connected and talent-dense, with backgrounds from Jane Street, MIT/Stanford research, and International Olympiads.

The Role
We hire across many strengths under one title. You are a T-shaped engineer who can navigate the whole stack, but you are uniquely experienced in at least one of these areas:

Native product surfaces: The user-facing flows that messaging cannot deliver. Compose interfaces, capture flows, rich previews, anything that needs a real screen.
System and platform integrations: HealthKit, Calendar, Contacts, Location, Photos, Shortcuts, App Intents. Anything entitled, anything that talks to Apple.
Parent app architecture: Settings, account, automations, notifications, push, background processing, the structure that lets every other piece fit.
Apple platform craft: SwiftUI, performance, accessibility, signing, capabilities, App Store review strategy.

Requirements

• Shipped consumer iOS apps at scale.
• Knowledge of what Apple's APIs actually do versus what the docs claim.
• Ability to think in primitives, not just features.
• Low ego; no important problem is beneath us.

Nice To Haves

• Unique experience in native product surfaces.
• Unique experience in system and platform integrations (HealthKit, Calendar, Contacts, Location, Photos, Shortcuts, App Intents).
• Unique experience in parent app architecture (Settings, account, automations, notifications, push, background processing).
• Unique experience in Apple platform craft (SwiftUI, performance, accessibility, signing, capabilities, App Store review strategy).

Responsibilities

• Own the iOS surface end to end and push it as far as Apple's APIs allow.
• Navigate the whole stack as a T-shaped engineer.
• Build native product surfaces like compose interfaces, capture flows, and rich previews.
• Integrate with system and platform features such as HealthKit, Calendar, Contacts, Location, Photos, Shortcuts, and App Intents.
• Develop parent app architecture including settings, account management, automations, notifications, push, and background processing.
• Apply Apple platform craft including SwiftUI, performance optimization, accessibility, signing, capabilities, and App Store review strategy.
• Move between product and debugging, stabilizing systems while shipping features.
• Think in primitives, not just features, to build solutions that solve current needs and unlock future use cases.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed