Senior iOS Engineer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join ABC Digital Product and shape mobile experiences used by Australians. You will lead development, guide design and delivery, and create scalable, secure iOS apps with a focus on performance and accessibility.

You will mentor engineers, influence engineering standards, and partner with cross-functional teams to plan and deliver major features while maintaining robust technical documentation.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent significant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Extensive experience developing complex, scalable, secure, accessible and high-performing applications across mobile platforms.
• Highly advanced iOS development skills with Swift in public-facing apps.
• Extensive experience with automated testing (unit/integration/e2e).
• Extensive mobile release experience including CI/CD pipelines and monitoring.
• Proven technical leadership with mentoring across engineering teams.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Strong planning and organisational skills for multi-person delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, maintenance and support of ABC iOS applications, delivering high-quality features and reusable components.
• Define the technical roadmap and contribute to product planning and engineering strategy.
• Coordinate major feature delivery, manage dependencies, timeframes and stakeholder expectations.
• Identify and resolve complex production issues to improve performance and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers while evolving engineering standards.
• Maintain clear technical and project documentation for sustainable development.

Skills

iOS development

Mobile architecture

CI/CD

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Tertiary qualifications in related field

Tools

Xcode

SwiftUI

Automated testing tools

Job description

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories. With about 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across more than 60 locations in Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories. With about 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across more than 60 locations in Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join ABC Digital Product as a Senior iOS Engineer and help shape the mobile applications Australians use to access ABC content.

Working under the broad direction of the Mobile Lead, you'll combine highly advanced iOS development skills with technical leadership across major product features. You'll help define the technical roadmap, guide design and delivery and create scalable, secure, accessible and high-performing mobile experiences.

You'll also tackle complex production challenges, contribute to engineering standards and support other engineers through technical guidance and mentoring.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the development, maintenance and support of ABC iOS applications, delivering high-quality features and reusable components across mobile products.


• Help define the technical roadmap and contribute to product planning, solution design and engineering strategy with colleagues across Digital Product.


• Coordinate major feature delivery in your area, managing dependencies, timeframes and expectations while keeping technical and non-technical stakeholders informed.


• Identify, triage and resolve complex production issues, driving improvements in performance, security, accessibility and reliability.


• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to other engineers, while helping evolve engineering standards and development practices.


• Maintain clear technical and project documentation to support sustainable development and ongoing product improvements.

What You'll Bring

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent significant skills, knowledge and experience.


• Significant experience developing complex, scalable, secure, accessible and high-performing applications across mobile platforms and devices.


• Highly advanced iOS development skills, ideally demonstrated through public-facing applications written in Swift, along with deep knowledge of modern frameworks and tools.


• Extensive experience with automated testing, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing and a strong focus on building quality into delivery.


• Extensive mobile release experience, including CI/CD, automation pipelines, production monitoring and post-release stakeholder engagement.


• Demonstrated technical leadership, with experience providing guidance and mentoring across engineering teams.


• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to build productive relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Strong planning and organisational skills, with experience coordinating multi-person delivery, managing dependencies and communicating progress and challenges.

What's In It For You?

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC's digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia's most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience-facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on ABC iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app, the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.

You will have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of major ABC iOS applications, mentor fellow engineers and contribute to products used by audiences across Australia.

You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: ABC Digital Product Blog

In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

For more information on working at the ABC visit ABC Careers.