iOS Engineer

Sesame; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) max employer match: 3.5%

100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits

Unlimited PTO

Flexible spending account with employer matching

Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Competitive stock options

Job summary

Sesame, located in New York, is seeking an iOS Developer to create a groundbreaking companion app that merges voice technology with user experience. This role demands creativity in design and leadership in iOS application development, engaging closely with diverse teams to produce delightful user experiences.

Successful candidates will have profound expertise in iOS UI design and a proven track record of delivering significant app features. We offer a supportive environment, competitive benefits, and a compensation range of $175K - $280K.

Qualifications

• Strong intuition about iOS app design and aesthetics.
• Experience shipping apps or major features multiple times.
• Passionate about building innovative iOS UI, minimizing latency.

Responsibilities

• Build Sesame’s standalone companion app for a new consumer product.
• Work with teams across engineering, design, and product.
• Help lead iOS team best practices and design.

Skills

iOS app design

design-forward apps

technical leadership

user experience

iOS UI innovation

eliminating latency

UI/UX design patterns

software development lifecycle

Job description

About Sesame

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives. Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software. Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive.

Responsibilities

• Build Sesame’s standalone companion app — the foundation for a new consumer product category — on a team that highly values craft and quality.
• Work with multiple teams across engineering, design, and product to ship complex projects that delight users.
• Help build the iOS team at Sesame by providing leadership on best practices and modern iOS app design.
• Work together with iOS, Android, and web engineers to define the mobile and web strategy for Sesame moving forward.

Required Qualifications

• Strong intuition and deeply considered opinions about iOS app design and aesthetics.
• You’ve worked on some delightful, design-forward apps over the course of your career.
• Proven technical leader who has taken primary responsibility for shipping apps or major features to production multiple times.
• Passionate about shipping great products. You’re highly motivated by understanding what makes users tick and finding ways to delight them.
• Passionate about the complex engineering involved in building lightning-fast, ergonomic, and innovative iOS UI.
• Expert in eliminating latency in complex iOS apps; nothing— from the network to the architecture or the limitations of the iOS SDK— will get in the way of you cutting those few extra milliseconds off of an interaction.
• Always up to date on the latest iOS UI/UX design patterns; tuned into the Apple release cycle and always thinking about how the latest features can help the team produce an even more incredible experience.
• Lots of hands-on experience with the software development lifecycle of iOS apps: build trains, test strategy, and the latest UI architecture patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building complex or advanced UI that required you to step off the golden path of the SDK.
• Experience with real-time communications, including WebRTC, WebSockets, audio/video codecs, compression protocols, etc.
• Expertise in managing battery drain in complex applications, including media or graphics-intensive applications.
• Experience integrating BLE peripherals on iOS.
• Metal or other graphics/shader experience.
• Contributions to open-source iOS projects or a strong personal portfolio of iOS applications.
• Experience building AI consumer products.

Benefits

• 401(k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation.
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA).
• Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options.

Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.

Compensation Range: $175K - $280K.

Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.