iOS Engineer

Opal Electronics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Opal Electronics in San Francisco designs and ships devices with companion iOS apps. You will focus on building native iOS applications, ensuring seamless pairing with hardware over Bluetooth/BLE and Wi‑Fi, and delivering low‑latency communication with firmware and cloud services.

The role emphasizes crafting smooth onboarding, account flows, and OTA update experiences while maintaining performance across many devices and iOS versions.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience building and shipping native iOS apps.
• Fluent in Swift and SwiftUI; strong UIKit knowledge.
• Design intuitive interfaces for pairing, controlling, and managing hardware over Bluetooth/BLE and Wi‑Fi.
• Experience with iOS app lifecycle, background activity, and ensuring uninterrupted connectivity.
• Partner with firmware and cloud teams to enable low‑latency communication between app, device, and backend.
• Own onboarding, account, and OTA update flows.
• Optimize performance across a wide range of iOS devices and OS versions.
• Obsess over craft and polish, with focus on animation and interaction quality.
• Able to move fast in environments where things are loosely defined.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship native iOS applications for Opal's hardware ecosystem.
• Collaborate with firmware and cloud teams to ensure seamless device communication.
• Own onboarding and OTA update flows for a smooth user experience.
• Ensure reliability and performance across iOS devices and OS versions.
• Elevate animation, interaction details, and overall polish of the app.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Bluetooth/BLE

App lifecycle

OTA updates

Performance optimization

Hardware pairing

Job description

We started with a simple idea: the things you use most often should be the best things you own.

This led us to invent.

Opal has been working on new things that may surprise even you.

So much has changed in technology, and so much of technology is stuck in the lab. Opal is building a series of new devices, that give consumers exciting new abilities.

It's more than cameras.

Focus:

• 3–6 years of experience building and shipping native iOS applications.
• Fluent in Swift and SwiftUI, with a strong grasp of UIKit and the broader Apple ecosystem.
• Design and build intuitive interfaces for pairing, controlling, and managing hardware devices over Bluetooth/BLE and Wi‑Fi.
• Well-versed in iOS app lifecycle, allowed background activity, and ensuring uninterrupted peripheral device connectivity with the app in the background.
• Partner closely with firmware and cloud teams to build seamless, low‑latency communication between the app, device, and backend.
• Own onboarding, account, and OTA update flows that feel effortless to the end user.
• Optimize for performance and reliability across a wide range of iOS devices and OS versions.
• Obsess over craft and polish, treating animation, interaction, and detail as core to the product experience.
• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined.