Lead iOS Engineer — Design Systems & AI-Ready UI

Vinted; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days leave

MacBook Pro

EAP

Team events

Home office budget €540

Lunch allowance

ClassPass

Pension plan 12%

Mobility card

Workation 90 days/yr

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Vinted is seeking a Lead iOS Engineer to join our Design Systems team. You’ll own architecture for the shared iOS component library, push modular design, and guide AI-ready patterns while collaborating with staff engineers and product teams.

You’ll write code, review PRs, and shape ADRs, RFCs, and API design. You’ll mentor engineers, ensure quality, and help the platform scale in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with SwiftUI, UIKit, and modernizing large-scale apps.
• Deep knowledge of Swift concurrency (async/await, actors) and data-race prevention.
• Experience building or scaling a design system / component library.
• Ability to lead architecture and technical decisions within a product domain.
• Clear written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Be the go-to iOS engineer and technical decision-maker for the Design Systems domain.
• Own architecture and design decisions for our shared iOS component library and design-system tooling, balancing delivery speed with long-term platform health.
• Push our components toward greater composability and flexibility, so product teams can build a wider range of screens without forking or patching them.
• Help make our design system AI-ready — ensuring components, documentation, and patterns are structured so product teams can reliably generate screens with AI tooling.
• Improve the processes behind how design assets are maintained and shipped, from design handoff to release.
• Drive module boundaries, dependency direction, and API design for the packages that other iOS teams depend on.
• Improve engineering quality and developer productivity across the domain: CI/CD, testing strategy, build times, flaky test reduction, and reliable feedback loops.
• Apply modern Swift concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, actors, data-race prevention) to keep the codebase safe and maintainable as it scales.
• Represent iOS in the Frontend Platform Council, helping create alignment and make decisions on shared platform standards across domains.
• Collaborate closely with Staff Engineers, EMs, PMs, Designers, and Android/Web engineers to keep the design system consistent and useful across platforms.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews, RFCs/ADRs, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

SwiftUI

UIKit

Swift concurrency

Modular architecture

Design system

Architecture decisions

CI/CD & testing

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

Job description

Vinted is seeking a Lead iOS Engineer to join our Design Systems team. You’ll own architecture for the shared iOS component library, push modular design, and guide AI-ready patterns while collaborating with staff engineers and product teams.

You’ll write code, review PRs, and shape ADRs, RFCs, and API design. You’ll mentor engineers, ensure quality, and help the platform scale in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.