Senior iOS Engineer - Remote, Growth & App Experience

Wikimedia Foundation; Lorida (FL); Remote; USD 56,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, iOS to join the App Growth team within the Core Experiences engineering group on a 3-month full time contract. You will improve iOS product experiences for a global audience, design scalable components, and collaborate with cross-functional teams for pragmatic solutions.

We are a fully remote team; the role requires 4+ hours between 14:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 5-10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building iOS applications.
• Strong professional experience and proficiency with Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and familiarity with architectural patterns in iOS.
• Experience of iOS performance optimisation techniques to ensure smooth, responsive, and high-performing applications under a variety of conditions.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of medium complexity initiatives from technical discovery through delivery. Breaks down initiatives into features, drive estimation and manage scope.
• Improving the mobile Wikipedia product experiences that serve a global, multilingual audience on iOS. Leads system design for medium-sized projects and can design and build accessible, adaptable, scalable components.
• Consistently builds software that is easy to test, observe and debug. Instruments features that enable deeper analysis by Product Analysts.
• Partners with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to shape pragmatic solutions that balance user needs, technical constraints, platform expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Proactively identifies high-impact technical opportunities and risks across the engagement timeframe, works with the team to clarify priorities and sequencing.
• Complies with team standards in code review, technical design, testing, documentation, accessibility, observability, and decision-making.
• Plans work with awareness of downstream or upstream effects.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

iOS Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, iOS to join the App Growth team within the Core Experiences engineering group on a 3-month full time contract. You will improve iOS product experiences for a global audience, design scalable components, and collaborate with cross-functional teams for pragmatic solutions.

We are a fully remote team; the role requires 4+ hours between 14:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.