AI-Powered iOS Engineer - SwiftUI & Performance

Burton Recruitment

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 65,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Burton Recruitment is seeking an experienced iOS Software Engineer in London to own the iOS client experience, ensuring AI interactions are fast, reliable, and trustworthy. You will build a production-grade app using Swift and SwiftUI and collaborate with backend and ML teams.

This role emphasizes performance, memory efficiency, and UX for AI, including loading states, streaming responses, retries, and fallbacks.

Qualifications

3+ years of iOS development experience using Swift.
Hands-on experience integrating AI-powered features into mobile apps.
Strong understanding of async/await, concurrency, and background tasks.
Solid iOS performance and memory optimization skills.
Experience shipping and maintaining production iOS apps.
Comfort designing for latency, partial failure, and non-deterministic AI behavior.
Exposure to CoreML or light on-device ML.
Familiarity with feature flags or remote configuration systems.
Strong intuition for AI UX patterns and user trust considerations.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
Integrate AI-powered features through backend APIs.
Design UX patterns for AI interactions, including loading states, streaming responses, retries, and fallbacks.
Optimize performance, memory usage, and battery efficiency.
Capture user signals and feedback to support AI evaluation and iteration.
Collaborate closely with backend and ML engineers on API design and system behavior.
Maintain high App Store quality, stability, and production reliability.