Intermediate iOS Engineer

Faire; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 125,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative online marketplace is seeking an experienced iOS Engineer to join the Inspire team. You'll develop impactful applications that empower entrepreneurs and enhance mobile app performance. Ideal candidates have over 2 years of experience, a passion for technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering. The role involves collaboration with diverse teams and opportunities to raise quality standards in app development.

Benefits

Equity and benefits

Flexible work schedule

Work remotely up to 4 weeks per year

Qualifications

• 2+ years of iOS experience with multiple apps shipped.
• Strong problem-solving and architecture skills.
• Experience collaborating closely with Android and Web developers.

Responsibilities

• Ship delightful experiences enabling efficient customer purchases.
• Improve app performance through investigation and collaboration.
• Raise the bar on mobile app quality with testing strategies.

Skills

iOS experience

Problem-solving

Architecture abilities

Curiosity for new tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Tools

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Job description

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role:

Our mobile apps are crucial to our vision: Empowering entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We want to empower entrepreneurs to run their business from their pocket through a world-class mobile app.

We care about stunning design, great UX, and good engineering practices -- we love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, and performant. We build minimum viable products, deploy to production weekly, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.

We are looking for an Engineer to join the Inspire team, who owns and iterates on critical business surfaces like our Home Feed, Category pages, and Hubs.

A s an iOS Engineer, you’ll collaborate with us to:

• Ship delightful and impactful experiences to our customers, enabling them to buy more effectively and efficiently
• Improve app performance through deep investigation and working with engineers across our tech stack
• Contribute to the foundations for infrastructure, developer velocity, team processes, design systems, and other elements of the product development process with a long‑term perspective.
• Raise the bar on the quality of our mobile apps through the implementation of testing strategies and upleveling execution.

We're excited about you because you have:

• 2+ years of iOS experience, having worked on multiple apps shipped to the App Store
• A passion for programming alongside strong problem‑solving and architecture abilities
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• A high bar for engineering excellence
• Curiosity to drive engineering impact outside of the iOS tech stack
• Experience collaborating closely with Android and Web developers

Technologies we use and teach:

• Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit
• XCTest, Swinject, SwiftyMocky, Sourcery
• Combine, async/await, actors
• Protocol Buffers

Salary range:

Canada: the pay range for this role is $125,000 - $172,500 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in‑office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie — not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first‑principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener‑Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog .

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)

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