iOS Engineer

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

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About the Role

Mobile Core is the metaphorical engine of Mobile at Twitch. We are the backbone of every feature and every release going out to our beloved customers. Our team owns the underlying infrastructure within the apps, the infrastructure building the apps, and the core features like video playback. Every mobile team at Twitch depends on what we build and how we build it. As an iOS Engineer on Mobile Core, you will focus on developer velocity, highly performant user experiences and insisting on the highest standards for app quality and performance. You will identify and lead complex projects with large scale influence and collaborate with engineers and partners across the company. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for Mobile Core iOS and work remotely or from either our San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, or our New York City offices.

You Will:

• Build delightful frameworks, drive their adoption amongst internal developers and measure their impact
• Champion prioritization of projects alongside your engineering leadership and product managers
• Insist on the highest standards for mobile development at Twitch by defining best practices and policies
• Identify opportunities across the mobile development stack to boost developer productivity and happiness
• Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you

You Have:

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of industry iOS development experience using Swift
• Experience communicating complicated technical problems to both technical and business audiences
• Experience working with iOS specific development tools, such as XCode, SwiftUI, CocoaPods, Firebase, or Swift Package Manager
• Experience leading large scale engineering projects with multiple stakeholders

Bonus Points

• Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit, CloudFormation, or Terraform or equivalent technologies
• Experience with other object oriented programming languages, such as C#, C++ or Python
• Fluency in some subset of UI design, data modeling, algorithms, and database schema design
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers
• Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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Job ID: TW8622

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