Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Waterloo, Canada

Speechify; Southwestern Ontario; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join their distributed team. This role involves leading engineering decisions, shipping production code for the iOS app, and maintaining a complex app architecture. Ideal candidates have a strong background in Swift and SwiftUI, along with a passion for product development. The position offers a competitive salary and the chance to contribute to a transformative product that impacts millions of users.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Supportive entrepreneurial environment

Impactful work in AI and audio

Qualifications

• Experience on products that scaled to a large user base.
• Track record on various products from inception to decent traction.
• Customer obsession for providing the best possible experience.
• Product thinking for thoughtful decisions about product evolution.
• Speed in generating ideas and knowing what can ship now.
• Focus in a busy, remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead key engineering and product decisions.
• Ship production code for the Speechify iOS app.
• Work within a dedicated product team.
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap.
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Multithreading Programming

CI/CD infrastructure

Fastlane

Git

Job description

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Waterloo, Canada

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our iOS app, being one of the top productivity apps in the App Store and our recognition as Apple’s 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we seek a Senior iOS Engineer to support the new user base and work on exciting projects to push our product forward.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You’ll Do

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction and have been responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession. You are constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
• Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide what can ship now
• Focus. You know how to engage or be heads down in a busy, remote environment
• Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Technical Requirements

• Swift Programming Language
• SwiftUI experience
• Experience in Multithreading Programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• SOLID principles, the ability to write well-structured classes
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

What We offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences and give reading superpowers to professionals around the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.