Senior App Engineer

Legacybox; Chattanooga (TN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility in working hours

Quarterly team offsites

Free Legacybox service

Job summary

Legacybox is looking for a Senior Mobile & TV Platform Engineer to enhance family memory experiences through innovative apps across iOS and TV platforms. The role requires leading the technical evolution of customer experiences and ensuring high-quality performance across media playback settings.

We offer a fun, collaborative work environment, with the option to work remotely or from our office in Chattanooga, TN. Enjoy competitive salary packages and a suite of generous benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in iOS, mobile, connected‑device, or consumer platform engineering.
• Strong experience building native iOS applications using Swift and modern Apple frameworks.
• Experience shipping production‑grade apps to the App Store.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical evolution of our customer experience across native iOS and companion TV platforms.
• Help translate our web application into a native iOS experience.
• Architect and launch companion TV applications across priority platforms.

Skills

iOS Development

Swift

Media Playback

Cross-Platform Architecture

User Experience Design

Job description

Team Size: Small, high-impact product team

Location: Remote or Chattanooga, TN

Type: Full-time

About Legacybox

We help families preserve the things that only exist once.

From VHS tapes and film reels to printed photos, negatives, slides, DVDs, camcorder cassettes, memory cards, and phones, we digitize the media that matters most so families can revisit and share those moments for generations to come.

But we believe the future of Legacybox is much larger than digitization alone.

We are building a long‑term family memory platform designed to help families preserve, organize, explore, and share their history together.

We are not in the digitization business. We are in the irreplaceable business.

The Role

We are hiring a Senior Mobile & TV Platform Engineer to help transform Legacybox from a web‑first product into a native, multi‑screen family memory experience.

This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, platform architecture, video/media systems, and consumer experience.

You will lead the technical evolution of our customer experience across native iOS and companion TV platforms, helping families engage with their memories in the places where they naturally relive them: on their phones, on the couch, and together as a household.

That means helping us build and scale experiences across:

• native iPhone and iPad apps
• Apple TV (tvOS)
• smart TV platforms (Roku, Android TV / Google TV, Fire TV, Samsung, or similar)
• media playback and long‑form video experiences
• photo browsing and memory viewing experiences
• account, family, and multi‑user experiences
• cross‑platform architecture and shared logic
• performance‑sensitive playback, storage, and sync systems

This is not a traditional app maintenance role.

We are looking for someone who understands that our product is not just software. It is how families experience irreplaceable memories together.

What You’ll Do

Lead Native App Expansion

• Help translate our web application into a best‑in‑class native iOS experience
• Build and improve iPhone and iPad experiences that feel fast, intuitive, and deeply polished
• Define where native experiences should differ from web, rather than simply replicating screens
• Improve performance, offline resilience, responsiveness, and platform‑native behavior

Build TV & Living Room Experiences

• Architect and launch companion TV applications across priority platforms
• Create simple, elegant playback experiences for home videos, photos, and shared family memories
• Design for lean‑back, remote‑first interaction patterns
• Help make Legacybox a product families experience together, not just individually

Shape Cross‑Platform Architecture

• Partner with engineering leadership on long‑term architecture decisions
• Identify what should be shared across platforms vs. purpose‑built natively
• Improve reliability around APIs, authentication, media handling, caching, and sync
• Help establish scalable engineering patterns for mobile and TV products

Build Media‑Heavy Consumer Experiences

• Improve long‑form video playback, chaptering, scrubbing, and discovery
• Build rich photo and memory browsing experiences
• Optimize performance for large media libraries and asset‑heavy experiences
• Ensure speed, reliability, and polish across lower‑bandwidth or constrained environments

Raise Technical Standards

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams
• Contribute to engineering culture, code quality, testing, and release rigor
• Help us move fast without creating fragile systems
• Raise the bar for craftsmanship across all customer‑facing software

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years experience in iOS, mobile, connected‑device, or consumer platform engineering
• Strong experience building native iOS applications using Swift and modern Apple frameworks
• Experience shipping production‑grade apps to the App Store
• Experience with video, media playback, streaming, or large asset‑heavy interfaces
• Strong systems thinking around architecture, performance, and scalability
• Comfort working across frontend, API integration, and product decisions
• Ability to independently drive initiatives from concept through launch
• High craftsmanship and strong attention to UX detail
• Experience working in small, fast‑moving product teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with tvOS, Roku, Android TV, Fire TV, or Smart TV ecosystems
• Experience designing shared cross‑platform architectures
• Familiarity with React‑based or web‑first products transitioning to native
• Experience with media libraries, storage systems, sync, or offline‑first behavior
• Experience with subscriptions, consumer SaaS, or DTC products
• Familiarity with video chaptering, playback UX, or rich media browsing

What Success Looks Like

• Legacybox launches a best‑in‑class native iOS experience
• Families can enjoy memories naturally across phone, tablet, and TV
• Media playback becomes faster, more stable, and more delightful
• Large memory libraries feel responsive and easy to navigate
• Engineering standards improve across mobile and customer‑facing architecture
• The app becomes more central to the long‑term customer relationship
• Legacybox evolves from a web product into a true multi‑platform family memory experience

Interview Process

We respect your time and keep our process focused and efficient:

1. Initial Screen (30 min)

Get to know each other. Discuss your experience, platform expertise, and what you’re looking for.

2. Technical Deep Dive (60 min)

Walk through past systems, apps, architecture decisions, and tradeoffs.

3. Practical Challenge

A domain‑relevant challenge focused on product thinking, platform architecture, or media experience design.

4. Team Fit (45 min)

Meet the team. Discuss collaboration style, ownership, and how you work cross‑functionally.

5. Final Discussion (30 min)

Talk about comp, logistics, and next steps. If we’re both excited, we’ll make an offer.

Total time commitment: ~4–5 hours spread over 2–3 weeks

Compensation & Benefits

Salary

Competitive salary based on experience and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance – Medical, dental, vision (100% premium covered for employee)
• 401(k) matching – We match contributions
• PTO – Actually encouraged to use it
• Remote work – Work from anywhere in the US
• Professional development – Conference tickets, courses, books
• Latest equipment – MacBook Pro, external monitors, accessories

Perks

• Flexible hours – Core overlap time, but otherwise work when you’re most productive
• Quarterly team offsites – In‑person collaboration and team building
• Free Legacybox service – Digitize your own family memories

Why Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to help define how families experience memory in the next era of Legacybox.

We believe preserving memories is only the first step. The bigger opportunity is helping families relive, organize, explore, and share those memories across devices, generations, and living spaces.

You will help shape the transition from a web‑first archive into a multi‑platform product where memories are experienced naturally on phones, tablets, and TVs.

That means solving meaningful technical challenges around media, scale, playback, architecture, and shared family experiences — all in service of something deeply human.

Work Environment

We embrace a flexible approach to work. Many of our team members are fully remote, and we value results, communication, and craftsmanship above location. We also take great pride in our hometown of Chattanooga and our facilities there, where millions of irreplaceable family memories are carefully handled, digitized, and preserved.

Whether working from home or visiting in person, you’ll be part of a team deeply rooted in quality, trust, and care. You’re always welcome in Chattanooga.