Founding iOS Engineering Lead - Build with Impact

RealTimeX; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries & equity

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance

Gym discounts

Home office stipend

Monthly happy hours

Job summary

Realtime is seeking a Lead iOS engineer to join our hybrid team in New York. You will blur the lines between engineering and product design, helping to foster community and authenticity on the platform.

You’ll work with a modern tech stack and ship features that scale to millions of users. The role demands 5+ years of iOS and Swift experience, leadership of at least a small team, and strong collaboration with cross-functional partners including marketing and operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in iOS and Swift.
• Led a team of 5+ engineers and collaborators should feel they can learn from you.
• Built, shipped and iterated on products from 0 to millions of users (at minimum hundreds of thousands).
• Experience with Firebase (Auth, Realtime DB, FCM, Crashlytics).
• Able to take a feature from spec to completion (UI, Data/Backend, Testing/QA, Future reworks/iterations).
• Attention to detail in product development.

Responsibilities

• Join the team as a Lead iOS engineer and be an integral part of the team.
• Blur lines between engineer and product designer to foster community and authenticity.
• Use a modern tech stack and implement the best tech available.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

Team leadership

Product delivery

Cross-functional

Attention to detail

Learning new tech

Tools

Firebase

Job description

Realtime empowers GenZ to discover and be a part of communities that matter to them. We make forming community instant, authentic, intimate and easy. We’re firm believers in authentic expression, inside jokes, diverse interests, and genuine connection.

Our vision is that Realtime will be the dominant way in which the entire world translates online social interactions into IRL communities. A lot of amazing builders and creators believe in this vision.

Realtime is backed by: Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder of Reddit, former Partner at Y Combinator, founding partner 776)Sam Altman (CEO at OpenAI, former President of Y Combinator)Kevin Lin (Co-Founder, former COO at Twitch)Kun Gao (Co-Founder of Crunchyroll)Just to name a few...other investors include founders and senior leaders at some of the dopest orgs, like Snapchat, Behance, Adobe, Kickstarter, Meetup, Tinder, Facebook and many more! Check out the full list here.

We're catching some headlines too:

WHO WE ARE

Our Founder considers himself more of an artist than a technologist. As a college dropout he knows that the best people and ideas come from unexpected places. You can read more about him and his vision on Medium.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Joining the team as a Lead iOS engineer, you’ll be an integral and vital part of the team. You’ll blur the lines between engineer and product designer at times, brainstorming and executing on the best ways to foster community and authenticity on Realtime. Plus you'll use a modern tech stack and utilize the best tech available (full tech stack here).

We have high standards of quality, so this job will be fast-paced and collaborative, with an emphasis on “getting things done right,” and not just getting them done.

This role is hybrid with a combination of remote work and in-person work based out of our NY location. Candidates should either be located in the NY area, or be willing to relocate.

WHO YOU ARE

• 5+ years experience in iOS and Swift
• Led a team of 5 or more engineers and colleagues should feel they can learn from you
• Built, shipped and iterated on products from 0 to millions of users (at minimum hundreds of thousands)
• Experience with Firebase (Auth, Realtime DB, FCM, Crashlytics)
• Able to take a feature from spec to completion (UI, Data/Backend, Testing/QA, Future reworks/iterations)
• Attention to detail in product development
• Able to learn new technologies as we grow/scale; open to working frontend and backend
• Collaborative approach to building; able to work cross-functionally with CEO, marketing and operations teams
• You’re hardworking but don’t take yourself too seriously
• Experience building consumer products
• Understands the basics of web3

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Manage & scale APIs built in node.js
• 1+ years experience with node.js
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Has built social apps
• Experience building in-app messaging
• Video call technologies (Twilio, Agora, WebRTC)
• UI/UX design knowledge, experience, or at least interest
• Experience writing on chains or smart contracts
• An eye for design

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE (CULTURE & BENEFITS)

We’re deadline and goals driven and thrive on moving fast and working hard. You will be an early team member at Realtime, and as such, will have significant influence over the direction of the company. We will compensate you well, invest in your development, and you will have fun every day! We value our team and want to ensure they’re rewarded for their hard work. We offer the following to help support this goal:

• COMPETITIVE SALARIES & EQUITY
• We work hard and expect you to as well. We’ll compensate you well and want you to have “skin-in-the-game” to reap the rewards of our team’s efforts and success!
• GENEROUS VACATION TIME
• Unlimited PTO
• HEALTH INSURANCE
• Comprehensive and competitive healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision
• GYM DISCOUNTS
• Realtime partners with GymPass to offer our team amazing discounts at some of the nation’s hottest gyms
• MONTHLY HAPPY HOURS
• Work hard, play hard. Employees located in our New York office are invited to join us for a monthly Happy Hour.
• HOME OFFICE STIPEND
• Full time-remote roles come with a stipend to help spruce up your home office space

BENEFITS:

• COMPETITIVE SALARIES & EQUITY
• We work hard and expect you to as well. We’ll compensate you well and want you to have “skin-in-the-game” to reap the rewards of our team’s efforts and success!
• GENEROUS VACATION TIME
• Unlimited PTO
• HEALTH INSURANCE
• Comprehensive and competitive healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision
• GYM DISCOUNTS
• Realtime partners with GymPass to offer our team amazing discounts at some of the nation’s hottest gyms
• MONTHLY HAPPY HOURS
• Work hard, play hard. Employees located in our New York office are invited to join us for a monthly Happy Hour.
• HOME OFFICE STIPEND
• Full time-remote roles come with a stipend to help spruce up your home office space

PS: we're offering a $2500 referral bonus for this position (and more), so send your smartest/coolest/weirdest/waviest friends our way and get that bag.