Senior iOS Engineer — SwiftUI, Scalable Mobile Apps

Economist-Group-; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Counselling and wellbeing resources

Work From Anywhere program

Generous leave

Job summary

The Economist Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, iOS, to design and build high-quality mobile experiences for a global audience. You will contribute across the iOS stack, shaping performant, scalable, and maintainable applications and collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to deliver impactful features.

You will also help evolve the architecture, improve testing and CI/CD practices, and mentor peers as part of a cross-functional team in a hybrid setup with 3+ days

Qualifications

• Proven iOS development experience with production apps.
• Strong skills in Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
• Experience with performance optimization and memory management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, testing and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
• Contribute to architecture and ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product and Design on user-centric features.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize app responsiveness.
• Improve code quality through reviews and shared standards.
• Support testing, CI/CD, and release processes.
• Work with backend and cross‑platform teams for end‑to‑end solutions.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards within the team.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Performance optimization

CI/CD pipelines

Testing frameworks

Debugging

Memory management

Observability

Code reviews

Job description

The Economist Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, iOS, to design and build high-quality mobile experiences for a global audience. You will contribute across the iOS stack, shaping performant, scalable, and maintainable applications and collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers to deliver impactful features.

You will also help evolve the architecture, improve testing and CI/CD practices, and mentor peers as part of a cross-functional team in a hybrid setup with 3+ days