iOS Engineer (New York)

Syndesus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Syndesus is hiring an iOS Engineer for our New York City office to own and ship native iOS features end-to-end. You will collaborate with founders and a small team to craft a consumer-grade iOS app used by creators, with a focus on Swift, MVVM, and scalable architecture.

Join a fast-growing startup environment where ownership is valued, 5 days per week on-site in NYC, and the product aims to reach millions of creators with a seamless mobile experience.

Qualifications

• 1-5+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Strong Swift and native iOS development experience.
• Experience building or scaling consumer iOS applications.
• Strong understanding of iOS architecture, MVVM, REST APIs, and mobile fundamentals.
• Excellent product instincts with strong attention to UI/UX and detail.
• Comfortable taking significant ownership in a fast-moving startup.
• Able to work 5 days/week on-site in NYC.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship native iOS features end-to-end using Swift.
• Help define and evolve the iOS architecture as the team scales.
• Build polished, fast, and intuitive experiences for creators.
• Improve application performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish mobile engineering standards and best practices.
• Work directly with Product, Design, Backend, and the founders to rapidly test and ship ideas.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

MVVM

REST APIs

UI/UX

Startup ownership

On-site NYC

Job description

iOS Engineer (New York City)

Comp: $130,000--$230,000 USD + Equity

Stack: Swift, Objective-C, MVVM, REST APIs, iOS SDK, Xcode

Location: New York City | 5 days/week on-site

Why This Role

• Own major parts of a native iOS product used by 1M+ creators at a fast-growing consumer marketplace.
• Join a small engineering team where you'll work directly with the founders and have significant influence over the product, architecture, and mobile experience.
• Build a highly polished, consumer-grade app generating 200K+ downloads/month.

You will

• Build and ship native iOS features end-to-end using Swift.
• Help define and evolve the iOS architecture as the team scales.
• Build polished, fast, and intuitive experiences for creators.
• Improve application performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish mobile engineering standards and best practices.
• Work directly with Product, Design, Backend, and the founders to rapidly test and ship ideas.

Skills

• 1--5+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Strong Swift and native iOS development experience.
• Experience building or scaling consumer iOS applications.
• Strong understanding of iOS architecture, MVVM, REST APIs, and mobile fundamentals.
• Excellent product instincts with strong attention to UI/UX and detail.
• Comfortable taking significant ownership in a fast-moving startup.
• Able to work 5 days/week on-site in NYC.

Other Skills

• Objective-C experience.
• Experience building products from an early stage.
• High-engagement consumer, creator, marketplace, social, or mobile app experience.
• Strong design sensibility and experience building highly polished interfaces.
• Heavy use of AI coding tools, models, or agents in your engineering workflow.
• Startup or founder-level product ownership experience.

How The Company Works

• Builder-first -- Engineers generate ideas, build, test, and iterate rather than waiting for detailed specs.
• High ownership -- A small engineering team means individual engineers have major product impact.
• Product obsessed -- The bar is polished, intuitive consumer software that feels truly native to iOS.
• AI-augmented -- The team actively experiments with new AI models and agentic development workflows.
• Founder access -- Work directly alongside the founders without layers of management.
• Real scale -- 1.4M+ creators, 3,000+ brands, and over $100M in creator payments through the platform.
• In-person -- The team builds together from its New York City office.