Swift Engineer

Littlebird

69d • Remote

About The Position

We're seeking a Swift Engineer to join our growing team to design, develop, and implement new features for Littlebird, our AI teammate for Mac and Android. We’re building personal AI; a thought partner that connects dots in your work and helps you think. We're a small, global, async-first team that values craft and ownership.

Littlebird is remote-first; we speak a few languages, love to collaborate, and like to build things that we enjoy using. Our co-founders have experience building data, consumer hardware, and interactive products, including selling a previous venture for ~$250m.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on software development experience with at least a few years focus on Swift or Objective-C.
• Proven ability to build complex, responsive user interfaces in MacOS, iOS and/or Android
• Comfortable handling concurrency, multi-threaded programming, and performance tuning in complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks—from slow rendering times to memory management issues. Familiarity with profiling tools (e.g., Chrome DevTools, Instruments, Lighthouse).
• Proficiency in using modern build and development tools like Webpack, Babel, Git, CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with macOS development tools and data persistence frameworks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase
• Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans
• Experience with assistive technologies like screen readers and voice recognition software
• Proficiency in Rust and/or python

Responsibilities

• Work closely with R&D leads to design scalable architecture
• Prove out AI feature ideas, iterate on them and integrate them into the product when they're ready for prime time
• Build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy, security and scale
• Contribute to new voice and transcriptions features
• Build and own features that will produce value for our customers

Benefits

• Remote-friendly work environment
• Collaborative team culture
• Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
• Competitive compensation packages including stock and health/dental/vision/life benefits, paid time off, 401k, and parental leave
• Flexible working hours across multiple time zones

What This Job Offers

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