Member of Technical Staff, iOS Engineer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound is seeking an experienced iOS Engineer to own the native mobile experience for the AI Marketer platform. You will design, build, and ship features, set architectural direction, and collaborate with design, backend, and product to deliver fast, polished mobile experiences.

In this foundational role, you will drive performance, release quality, and modern iOS practices while mentoring new hires. This on-site role is based in NYC or SF with visa sponsorship for qualified candidates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
• Experience with REST APIs and asynchronous networking.
• Experience shipping apps via App Store, TestFlight, and releases.
• Familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship new features for iOS app end to end.
• Establish the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards for the iOS codebase.
• Build fast, reliable interfaces for real-time data, dashboards, and reporting on mobile
• Partner with backend engineers to design APIs that serve mobile use cases well
• Work closely with design to translate product requirements into polished, native experiences
• Own app performance, stability, and release quality, including crash rates and load times
• Implement push notifications, background refresh, and other native platform capabilities
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and App Store releases
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Swift code
• Collaborate with product and customers to identify what mobile experiences matter most
• Stay current with Apple platform changes and adopt new APIs where they add real value
• Mentor future iOS hires as the team grows

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

REST APIs

Instruments

Tools

Instruments

Job description

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.

Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.

As an iOS Engineer at Profound, you will build and own the native mobile experience that brings our AI Marketer to our customers' pockets. You will work closely with design, backend, and product to ship a fast, polished app that gives marketers visibility into their AI presence anywhere. This is a foundational role: you will set the technical direction for iOS at Profound from the ground up.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship new features for Profound's native iOS app, end to end

• Establish the architecture, tooling, and engineering standards for the iOS codebase

• Build fast, reliable interfaces for real-time data, dashboards, and reporting on mobile

• Partner with backend engineers to design APIs that serve mobile use cases well

• Work closely with design to translate product requirements into polished, native experiences

• Own app performance, stability, and release quality, including crash rates and load times

• Implement push notifications, background refresh, and other native platform capabilities

• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and App Store releases

• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Swift code

• Collaborate with product and customers to identify what mobile experiences matter most

• Stay current with Apple platform changes and adopt new APIs where they add real value

• Mentor future iOS hires as the team grows

Who you are

• 5 or more years of professional experience building and shipping native iOS applications

• Strong proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, with solid knowledge of UIKit

• Experience with iOS app architecture patterns, including state management and navigation

• Comfort working with REST APIs, JSON, and asynchronous networking

• Experience shipping apps through the App Store, including review, TestFlight, and release processes

• Familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and a strong sense of product craft

• Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools like Instruments

• Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with shifting priorities

• Strong ownership mentality, from architecture decisions to shipped features

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across design, product, and backend

• Genuine excitement about AI and its impact on how marketing teams work

• Growth mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity and rapid change

Location

This is an on-site role in our NYC or SF office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $160,000 to $230,000 (NYC and SF). Comp may vary by location. Profound's total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.

Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.