iOS Technical Lead

Aptino, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptino, Inc. is seeking an experienced iOS Technical Lead to guide the design, development, and delivery of high-quality native iOS apps in Seattle. You will lead architecture decisions, drive best practices, and mentor the team to achieve engineering excellence.

The role requires strong leadership in Agile environments, experience with Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and modern Apple technologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Lead design, development, testing and deployment of native iOS apps.
• Experience with scalable architecture and best practices.
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of native iOS applications using Swift.
• Define scalable mobile architecture, coding standards, and iOS development best practices.
• Drive technical design discussions and provide solutions for complex business requirements.
• Mentor iOS developers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, QA, and Backend teams to deliver quality applications.
• Ensure application performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and stability.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, release management, and App Store deployments.
• Integrate REST APIs, third-party SDKs, and cloud services.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance and user experience.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, estimations, and technical roadmap development.
• Drive continuous improvement, technical innovation, and team capability development.

Skills

Swift

iOS SDK

SwiftUI

UIKit

MVVM

Clean Architecture

SOLID

Concurrency

REST APIs

CI/CD

Mentoring

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Firebase

Core Data

Git

Job description

We are looking for an experienced iOS Technical Lead to lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality native iOS applications using Swift and modern Apple technologies. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise, proven leadership skills, and experience in mobile architecture, performance optimization, and end-to-end application delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of native iOS applications using Swift.
• Define scalable mobile architecture, coding standards, and iOS development best practices.
• Drive technical design discussions and provide solutions for complex business requirements.
• Mentor iOS developers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, QA, and Backend teams to deliver quality applications.
• Ensure application performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and stability.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, release management, and App Store deployments.
• Integrate REST APIs, third-party SDKs, and cloud services.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance and user experience.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, estimations, and technical roadmap development.
• Drive continuous improvement, technical innovation, and team capability development.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Swift, iOS SDK, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
• Experience with MVVM, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles, and modular application design.
• Knowledge of concurrency, async/await, Combine, and memory management.
• Experience with REST APIs, Core Data, Firebase, and third-party SDK integrations.
• Proficiency in unit testing, UI testing, Git, CI/CD, and App Store deployment.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building scalable, enterprise-grade iOS applications.
• Knowledge of application security, performance profiling, and crash analysis.
• Experience with hiring, onboarding, and mentoring iOS engineering teams