iOS Engineer

4 Weeks ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As an iOS Engineer at SoundCloud, you will be responsible for enhancing the ad experience within their applications. This involves working on advertising components and optimizing ad performance. The role requires experience with Swift, a strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns, and a willingness to refactor Objective-C code. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and create solutions to complex engineering problems. The ideal candidate is an independent thinker who thrives in an agile team and is committed to the products they work on.

Must have:

Experience developing applications using Swift.
Strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns.
Experience with SwiftUI and UIKit is valued.

Good to have:

Experience with advertising SDKs or user engagement features.

Perks:

Relocation support.
Creativity and Wellness benefit.
Employee Equity Plan.
Generous professional development allowance.
Flexible vacation and public holiday policy.
16 paid weeks for all parents.
Free German courses.
Snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office.

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Job Details

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We maintain the advertising infrastructure across all SoundCloud clients. The team is responsible for user engagement and ad experience on mobile: integrating various ad formats, optimizing ad performance, and managing user interaction touchpoints. As an iOS Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for working on SoundCloud's advertising components and enhancing the ad experience in our applications. You have experience developing applications using Swift and have a strong understanding of object oriented design patterns. You value clean code and you like writing unit tests with XCTest. A large portion of our app is still written in Objective-C, you are comfortable refactoring it and gradually modularizing it using Swift. Experience with SwiftUI and UIKit is valued for this position, particularly in building responsive and engaging UI components. We care much more about your general engineering skills than any prior knowledge of a particular language or framework.

You have worked with advertising SDKs or user engagement features in the past. You're enthusiastic about learning new skills and technologies. You're proactive and have experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including product, design, and analytics. You enjoy creating simple solutions to complex engineering problems and are able to communicate them to product managers and your team. You're an independent thinker but thrive in a tight-knit agile team. You're committed to the products you work on.

About us:

We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard.
We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one way flights, temporary accommodation and, by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
Employee Equity Plan
Generous professional development allowance
Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.