Lead iOS Developer

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Singapore seeks a Lead iOS Engineer to own significant areas of the iOS platform, lead complex feature development, and help shape our technical direction. You will collaborate with product, design, QA, cloud, and embedded teams to deliver scalable, reliable mobile experiences.

With 8+ years of hands-on iOS shipping, you bring deep Swift expertise and fluency in MVVM or Clean Architecture, async/await, and unit/UI testing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on iOS development with real customers.
• Strong expertise in Swift and modern iOS architectures (MVVM, Clean Architecture).
• Experience with asynchronous programming (async/await, Combine).
• Solid understanding of performance, memory management and debugging.
• Experience owning features end-to-end from design to production.
• Comfortable influencing technical decisions within a team.
• Mentor and guide other engineers; participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complex features and systems within the iOS app, ensuring high quality and scalability.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design, collaborating with senior engineers and tech leads.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned with modern iOS best practices.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including product, design, QA, cloud, and embedded engineering.
• Drive improvements in app performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Swift

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Async/await

Combine

UIKit

SwiftUI

Dependency Injection

URLSession

XCTest

Tools

URLSession

XCTest

Job description

About Us

We own and develop the Dyson Link Smart home app, which is at the forefront of Dyson's IoT experience. We are proud of what we have built so far; we have an App Store and Google Play rating of 4.5 and 4.3 stars respectively, we have more than 1 million active users worldwide and our IoT platform has over 3 million connected Dyson machines. We have huge ambition to grow this platform and as we connect more machines from more categories the challenge is significant.

About the Role

We are looking for an Lead iOS Engineer to join our mobile app team. This is a senior individual contributor role where you will take ownership of significant areas of the iOS platform, lead complex feature development, and contribute to shaping our technical direction. You are skilled in iOS engineering, proactive in driving improvements, and comfortable working across teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.

Our Tech

Our iOS app uses a modular architecture and follows modern design patterns such as MVVM and/or Clean Architecture. We primarily use: Swift as our core language Swift Concurrency (async/await) and Combine for asynchronous programming UIKit and increasingly SwiftUI for UI development Dependency injection patterns for modular and testable code Networking layers built on URLSession and/or third-party abstractions Our testing stack includes XCTest for unit and UI testing. We continuously evaluate tools and frameworks to enhance code quality, developer productivity, and app performance.

What you’ll be doing

Own and deliver complex features and systems within the iOS app, ensuring high quality and scalability Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design, collaborating with senior engineers and tech leads Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned with modern iOS best practices Work closely with cross-functional teams including product, design, QA, cloud, and embedded engineering Drive improvements in app performance, reliability, and maintainability Participate actively in design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions, providing thoughtful feedback Mentor and guide other engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing Evaluate and drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, and approaches to enhance engineering effectiveness Contribute to technical planning by providing input on trade-offs, dependencies, and implementation strategies

About You

You are passionate about building high-quality mobile experiences that improve users’ everyday lives You thrive in collaborative, Agile environments and take ownership of your work You have 8+ years of experience building and shipping iOS applications used by real customers You have strong expertise in Swift and modern iOS architectures (e.g., MVVM, Clean Architecture) You are experienced with asynchronous programming (e.g., async/await, Combine, or similar) You have a solid understanding of app performance, memory management, and debugging You are experienced with unit and UI testing, and understand the importance of quality engineering practices You have experience owning features or subsystems end-to-end, from design to production You are comfortable influencing technical decisions within your team You actively support and mentor other engineers You are pragmatic and delivery-focused, while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality You are comfortable using AI-powered developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar) to improve productivity, applying sound engineering judgment to validate outputs

Equal Opportunity Statement

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.