Senior iOS Engineer - Patient Experience

Ro • New York, NY

40d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company with a mission of helping patients achieve their health goals by delivering the easiest, most effective care possible. Ro is the only company to offer nationwide telehealth, labs, and pharmacy services. This is enabled by Ro's vertically integrated platform that helps patients achieve their goals through a convenient, end-to-end healthcare experience spanning from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. Since 2017, Ro has helped millions of patients, including one in every county in the United States, and in 98% of primary care deserts. Ro has been recognized as a Fortune Best Workplace in New York and Health Care for four consecutive years (2021-2024). In 2023, Ro was also named Best Workplace for Parents for the third year in a row. In 2022, Ro was listed as a CNBC Disruptor 50. The Role Our iOS application allows over 300,000 monthly active patients to manage their care. The application is consistently in the top 10 medical apps in the app store has has maintained a 4.7★ App Store rating with thousands of reviews. We are looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join Ro's Patient Experience team and help shape the future of our mobile healthcare platform. In this role, you'll design, build, and maintain high-quality iOS applications that connect patients with seamless, personalized care. You'll lead efforts to evolve the Ro mobile experience—enabling patients to manage their health goals, communicate with providers, and access treatment through intuitive, performant, and secure native interfaces. As a senior member of a small, highly impactful iOS team, you'll have meaningful influence over the architecture, technical direction, and quality bar of our mobile app. You'll partner closely with product, design, and data to deliver delightful user experiences at scale and own initiatives end to end—from technical discovery and implementation through iteration and improvement in production—and help define best practices for mobile engineering across the company. You'll also bring your perspective to improving team workflows, tooling, and development practices, contributing to a strong culture of ownership, iteration, and continuous improvement. Ro has served millions of patients and partners closely with leaders across the healthcare ecosystem to deliver innovative treatments and personalized care journeys. Joining the iOS team means working on a product with real-world impact, shipping frequently, and seeing your work directly improve patients' lives while helping shape the future of mobile healthcare at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and shipping iOS apps at scale, with a focus on elegant, user-centric interfaces.
• Proficiency in Swift, Swift Concurrency, and SwiftUI, with strong understanding of app architecture, performance optimization, and accessibility principles.
• Deep experience with multithreading, async/await, memory management, and unit testing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and release processes for the App Store.
• Proven ability to collaborate across disciplines, working effectively with designers, product managers, and backend teams.
• Strong sense of ownership—from technical design and implementation through post-release monitoring and iteration.
• Genuine care about the user experience and can quickly assess the right visual solutions to achieve the product and design goals in an elegant manner.
• Passion for continuous learning and bringing modern mobile development practices to elevate team quality and user experience.
• Experience mentoring or guiding other engineers through technical leadership or peer coaching.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features in Ro's iOS app, supporting thousands of members daily.
• Build real-time, visually engaging, and accessible experiences that help patients seamlessly achieve their health goals and manage their care.
• Partner closely with design, product, and backend engineers to influence the roadmap and shape Ro's native mobile patient experience.
• Own the technical quality of the iOS app—defining and enforcing best practices in testing, observability, accessibility, and performance optimization.
• Continuously identify and address opportunities to improve app performance, scalability, and developer velocity.
• Contribute to architectural vision and the evolution of Ro's mobile ecosystem, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and release management.
• Mentor teammates through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions, fostering a culture of learning and technical excellence

What This Job Offers

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