Senior Software Engineer- iOS

Xapply; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

H&M is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) to drive the Design System foundations for cross-team usage. You will build reusable iOS components, API surfaces, and tooling, collaborating with Design, Product and Engineering to ensure accessibility and quality.

You will mentor engineers, set coding standards, and contribute to design tokens while aligning with product goals and adoption plans across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and evolution of reusable iOS components using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit where appropriate.
• Design scalable component APIs supporting variants, states, themes, composition and accessibility.
• Translate Figma/design specifications into production-ready components in close collaboration with designers.
• Contribute to design tokens and foundations such as colour, typography, spacing, sizing and themes.
• Establish architecture, coding standards and engineering best practices for the iOS Design System.
• Build accessibility, performance, quality and maintainability into components by default.
• Work with product teams to support adoption, identify gaps and turn recurring needs into reusable solutions.
• Create clear documentation, examples and guidance that make components easy to discover and use.
• Maintain automated unit, UI and snapshot/visual regression tests where appropriate.
• Own component evolution, including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation and migration strategies.
• Lead technical discussions, conduct code reviews and mentor engineers across the iOS community.
• Explore improvements to design-to-code workflows and developer experience.

Skills

Swift & iOS

Design System

Architecture & Leadership

Design-to-Code

Accessibility

Testing & Quality

Performance

Developer Experience

Job description

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) in the Design System team, you will build and evolve the foundations that enable iOS teams across H&M to deliver consistent, accessible and high-quality digital experiences. You will work at the intersection of Design, Engineering and Product, creating reusable components, APIs, patterns and tooling that can be adopted across multiple products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and evolution of reusable iOS components using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit where appropriate.


• Design scalable component APIs supporting variants, states, themes, composition and accessibility.


• Translate Figma/design specifications into production-ready components in close collaboration with designers.


• Contribute to design tokens and foundations such as colour, typography, spacing, sizing and themes.


• Establish architecture, coding standards and engineering best practices for the iOS Design System.


• Build accessibility, performance, quality and maintainability into components by default.


• Work with product teams to support adoption, identify gaps and turn recurring needs into reusable solutions.


• Create clear documentation, examples and guidance that make components easy to discover and use.


• Maintain automated unit, UI and snapshot/visual regression tests where appropriate.


• Own component evolution, including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation and migration strategies.


• Lead technical discussions, conduct code reviews and mentor engineers across the iOS community.


• Explore improvements to design-to-code workflows and developer experience.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Wein the Design System team, empowerteams to build great digital experiences. Our Design System provides reusable, accessible and scalable foundations that help product teams deliver consistent customer experiences faster. We connect Design, Engineering and Product through components, patterns, tokens and developer tooling.

Team Principles

• Build reusable foundations that enable teams to move faster.


• Collaborate across Design, Product and Engineering.


• Solve real customer and developer problems rather than introducing technology for its own sake.


• Design for consistency, accessibility, quality and scalability.


• Treat the Design System as a product, continuously improving it through feedback and adoption.


• Share knowledge and enable teams to contribute and succeed.

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for people with...

• Swift & iOS: 6-10 years ofstrong Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit experience; modern iOS SDK knowledge; Swift Concurrency; modular architecture and Swift Package Manager.


• Design System Engineering: Experience building or contributing to an iOS Design System, component library or reusable platform; strong component/API design and understanding of variants, states, themes and composition.


• Design & Design-to-Code: Experience collaborating with designers and translating Figma specifications into robust iOS components; understanding of design tokens and design-system foundations.


• Accessibility: Strong understanding of iOS accessibility, including VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, accessibility labels/traits and inclusive component behaviour.


• Testing & Quality: Strong unit/UI testing experience; snapshot or visual regression testing is valuable; understanding of CI/CD and automated quality checks.


• Performance: Understanding of rendering, memory management and concurrency; ability to use Instruments and debugging tools to diagnose complex issues.


• Architecture & Leadership: Ability to make architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers and influence across teams.


• Developer Experience: Focus on discoverability, documentation, examples and ease of adoption for engineers consuming shared libraries.

Nice to Have

• Experience with enterprise-scale Design Systems or shared component libraries.


• Experience with Figma Variables, Code Connect, design-token pipelines or design-to-code tooling.


• Experience with visual regression testing and developer documentation platforms.


• Experience aligning iOS components with Web/Android Design Systems.


• Experience with developer tooling, automation, code generation or AI-assisted development workflows.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE

At H&M, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.

We offer all our employees at H&M attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here. In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment types and countries.

JOIN US

Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.