Senior Staff Engineer, iOS

AlphaSense; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Staff iOS Engineer to define the technical direction for iOS and mobile-facing systems that power enterprise workflows. You will lead with deep iOS expertise, influence architecture, and set contracts that improve customer outcomes while ensuring reliability and security across teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on design, multi-team collaboration, and AI-enabled validation to move quickly without compromising quality.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern production iOS architecture and setting technical standards beyond one feature team.
• Represent mobile platform principles from a deep iOS base and collaborate with backend/web/product decisions.
• Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts or backend boundaries to improve quality.
• Ability to read, debug, and contribute to backend systems when needed to unblock mobile work.
• Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems to improve validation and delivery.
• Strong reliability and release-quality judgment across production mobile systems.
• Track record of lifting engineers by turning complex work into reusable standards and patterns.
• Excellent product judgment and communication, aligning technical decisions to customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction for iOS and mobile-facing systems to keep experiences fast and secure.
• Lead through hands-on iOS system design solving complex mobile-system problems.
• Shape reliability, testing, rollout, and AI-assisted validation across initiatives.
• Create durable mobile-facing contracts to define ownership and boundaries.
• Raise mobility engineering standards and reusable patterns across teams.

Job description

About the company:the company is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents - including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, the company helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, the company delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.

About the Team:

Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search.

At the company, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.

About the Role:

the company has spent more than a decade helping professionals find, trust, and synthesize market intelligence. With SuperAnalyst, we are expanding that foundation into continuous, decision-ready execution: workflows that monitor change, update outputs, and surface what matters as situations evolve. Mobile is a critical part of that future because the moments that matter do not only happen when customers are sitting at a desktop.

iOS is an important surface for that future because continuous, decision-ready workflows need to feel fast, secure, and reliable across iPhone, iPad, and managed enterprise environments.

As a Senior Staff iOS Engineer, you will set technical direction for iOS and the mobile-facing systems that shape product quality across customer workflows. You will work from deep iOS expertise while influencing the architecture, standards, and system contracts that help teams build reliable native experiences across initiatives.

This is a hands-on Senior Staff role with significant architectural ownership, multi-team leverage, and long-term product impact. You will help teams move faster while preserving the quality, reliability, and trust that enterprise mobile experiences require, including by shaping how AI-enabled development changes mobile engineering.

What you'll do:

• Set iOS-rooted mobile-system direction:Define the technical direction for iOS and the mobile-facing systems that make the company experiences fast, reliable, secure, and easier to evolve across teams.
• Lead through hands-on iOS system design:Turn complex mobile-system problems into durable production architecture grounded in deep iOS expertise.
• Scale reliability and execution practices: Shape how mobile work is designed, reviewed, tested, shipped, and operated across initiatives, including the automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI-enabled validation needed to move quickly with confidence.
• Create durable mobile-facing system contracts: Help teams define the boundaries, ownership, and operating expectations that let mobile-facing systems evolve without pushing hidden complexity into native clients.
• Raise mobile-system judgment across teams:Turn complex mobile-system work into reusable standards and stronger engineering judgment for the teams building native experiences.

What We're looking for:

Required:

• Deep expertise in modern production iOS architecture, with a track record of setting technical standards beyond one feature team.
• Ability to represent mobile platform principles from a deep iOS base, with enough Android fluency to shape cross-functional architecture decisions where backend, web, and product choices affect identity, reliability, release quality, observability, and native product outcomes.
• Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts or backend service boundaries that improve product quality across native and adjacent client surfaces.
• Ability to read, debug, and contribute to backend systems when needed to unblock mobile-facing outcomes.
• Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems that improve validation, product quality, and delivery confidence across teams.
• Strong reliability and release-quality judgment across production mobile systems, with experience raising quality standards across multiple initiatives.
• Track record making engineers around you better by turning complex mobile-system work into clear standards, reusable patterns, and stronger technical judgment across teams.
• Excellent product judgment and communication skills, including the ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and align teams around durable technical decisions.

Preferred:

• Experience building Apple-platform product experiences across varied device and form-factor contexts, such as iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay, or other platform-native surfaces.
• Experience with enterprise mobile environments where identity, device management, compliance, or security constraints shape architecture, including MDM/MAM.
• Experience shaping mobile design-system foundations and design-to-code workflows that improve consistency, accessibility, development velocity, and AI-assisted UI generation across native platforms.

the company is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling the company's commitment to equal employment opportunity. the company does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at the company, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of the company to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.