iOS Engineer

Job Description

Kickstarter is seeking an experienced iOS Engineer to join our team and help deliver great experiences for Kickstarter creators and backers. The salary for this role in the United States is $120,000 - 140,000. The salary for this role in Canada is CAD$ 110,000 -125,000 . About the Team Kickstarter’s product development team builds the platform that helps bring creative projects to life. We're a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data analysts, and community specialists working collaboratively using iterative, data-driven, and outcome oriented approaches to solve problems. Our work touches every area of the platform as we develop new features and functionality. Our ability to develop valuable, maintainable and useful solutions opens up more opportunities for creators and backers to bring creative projects to life. We build features on modern mobile applications built in Swift, Objective C, Java, and Kotlin all backed by a GraphQL API. We use iterative and data-driven processes to build and refine our platform that supports our mission of bringing creative projects to life. Our iOS Engineers work with Product Managers (PMs), Product Designers (PDs), Engineering Managers (EMs), and other Software Engineers (SEs) to build, maintain, and retire features that enable the success of Kickstarter users on the iOS platform. Our engineers are individually responsible for tasks and bug fixes of increased complexity which may take up to 1-2 weeks to complete. They also remain focused on learning and development, pairing with and receiving feedback from more senior teammates while also pairing with and offering feedback and mentoring to more junior teammates.

In This Role, Listed in Order of Importance, You Will:

• Write well-tested software that meets product, design, and operational criteria to enable the success of Kickstarter users.
• Estimate task complexity and self-manage execution of medium to large features/bug fixes, ensuring committed work is delivered on-time.
• Participate in group code reviews to ensure a high standard of quality for all changes to Kickstarter systems.
• Remain informed of platform level API changes and App Store guidance.
• Pair with and provide growth feedback and mentorship to more junior teammates.

About You

• You have the proven ability to write correct, well-tested software.
• You have solid knowledge of, or willingness to learn, core Kickstarter mobile technologies (Java and Kotlin, GraphQL).
• You have proven ability to break down moderately complex or ambiguous problems into actionable work items.
• ​​You value sharing knowledge, personal growth, positive feedback, and continuously improving engineering and team practices.
• You empathize with creators, the challenges of the creative process and bringing projects to life.
• You have experience working iteratively and maintaining live products.
• You consider the broader impacts of your work through; building accessible UI, quality & testing patterns, code readability, documentation and considering security, performance and data integrity concerns.

$120,000 - $140,000 a year The salary range posted applies to all candidates based in the United States. What You'll Enjoy - A fully remote workforce with plenty of opportunities to get to know your colleagues - 100% employer-paid health plan offerings - 16 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, and a company-wide winter break between Christmas and New Years - 25 volunteer hours each year to give back to your community - 16 weeks of parental leave plus fertility/family planning resources - A 4-day/32-hour workweek! Kickstarter is currently experimenting with one so that we can all enjoy long weekends - Incredibly talented and inspiring colleagues who know how to blend their creative endeavors into their work You can read more about our benefits and working at Kickstarter at our Jobs page: https://jobs.kickstarter.com/ Our Fully Virtual Team We’re currently able to support employees based in the following US locations: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OR, VA, and WA. We're also able to support employees in the United Kingdom and Canada (Ontario & British Columbia). If you live in—or are willing to move to—any of these locations, we look forward to your application! If there is a required or preferred location for an open role, it will be listed in the job description. Kickstarter is an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to fight for equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to an inclusive work environment. Kickstarter is a Public Benefit Corporation, and our mission is to help bring creative projects to life. We measure our success as a company by how well we achieve that mission, not by the size of our profits. In our charter, we spell out our mission, our values, and the commitments we have made to pursue them. Apply for this job