Staff iOS Engineer

FOX News Channel; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

FOX News Channel is seeking a Staff iOS Engineer to lead the mobile team across iOS and tvOS, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and delivering features used by millions of users.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial, drive platform evolution, adopt SwiftUI and modern Apple APIs, and improve developer workflows with automation and internal tools. On-site presence required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, with at least 2 years in a staff/lead role.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency.
• Experience building large-scale consumer apps on the App Store.
• Strong understanding of iOS architecture (MVVM, Coordinator, modular multi-target).
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity.
• Proven track record mentoring engineers across levels.
• Experience with video playback, streaming, and media frameworks on Apple platforms.
• Strong XCTest/XCUITest and CI/CD experience with automated testing.
• Ability to articulate technical decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Regular, on-site attendance at least 3 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement major features across the FOX News iOS and tvOS apps.
• Drive the mobile platform's technical strategy and long-term evolution.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through reviews and pairing.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial to define requirements and trade-offs.
• Own performance, observability, and crash-free targets for iOS/tvOS.
• Lead adoption of SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, WidgetKit, Live Activities, CarPlay where applicable.
• Maintain shared libraries, networking, DI, and platform services.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs with focus on stability and privacy.
• Establish standards for architecture, testing, CI/CD, and release management.
• Build internal developer tools and AI-powered automation to improve workflows.
• Contribute to incident response and long-term reliability improvements.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Concurrency

iOS architecture

CI/CD

Automated testing

Mentoring

Media playback

AI tooling

Communication

Tools

Xcode

Swift Package Manager

LLM APIs

Job description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Staff iOS Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership across our iOS and tvOS platforms. In this role, you’ll architect scalable mobile solutions, influence the long-term technical direction of the platform, and partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to deliver applications used by millions of users. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll set technical direction through architecture, mentorship, and engineering standards. You’ll also identify opportunities to improve developer workflows through automation and internal tooling. This is a unique opportunity to join an ambitious mobile team using agentic workflows to build and ship high-quality features at lightning speed!

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect and implement major features across the FOX News iOS and tvOS applications.
• Drive the technical strategy for the mobile platform, including modularization, build system performance, developer tooling, and long-term platform evolution.
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, pair programming, and architectural guidance.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Editorial teams to define requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and deliver mobile features.
• Own application performance, reliability, observability, and crash-free rate targets across the iOS and tvOS platforms.
• Lead the adoption of modern Apple frameworks and APIs, including SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, WidgetKit, Live Activities, and CarPlay where applicable.
• Design and maintain shared component libraries, networking layers, dependency injection infrastructure, and reusable platform services.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs—including analytics, advertising, video, and community platforms, with an emphasis on stability, performance, privacy, and minimal application footprint.
• Establish engineering standards for architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and code quality.
• Identify opportunities to build internal developer tools and automations, including AI-powered solutions where appropriate, to improve engineering workflows.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and production triage for mobile-specific issues while driving long-term platform reliability improvements.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, including at least 2 years operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or in a comparable technical leadership role.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, including modern concurrency (async/await, actors, structured concurrency).
• Deep experience architecting, building, and shipping large-scale consumer applications on the App Store.
• Strong understanding of iOS application architecture, including MVVM, Coordinator patterns, modular and multi-target project structures, dependency injection, and scalable application design.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode or similar) to support software development and improve engineering productivity.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Experience with video playback, streaming technologies, and media frameworks on Apple platforms.
• Strong experience with XCTest, XCUITest, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release management.
• Demonstrated ability to build developer tooling or automation that improves team efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and influence stakeholders across engineering and business teams.
• Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position. Selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Experience building internal developer platforms, engineering productivity tools, or workflow automations.
• Experience with Swift Package Manager and maintaining modular codebases.
• Familiarity with Apple’s latest frameworks and platform capabilities.
• Experience working in digital media, publishing, or content-driven consumer applications.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI services into internal developer tools.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $160,000.00-205,000.00 annually.

This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.

Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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We’re disruptors. We’re big dreamers. We’re believers in the future, in possibility, in potential. We’re reinventing the world, every day. We create content for audiences big and small, global and local. We put our audiences first, and work hard to bring them stories they’ll love, wherever they are and however they watch, listen and learn.

Whatever your discipline, from on-air talent to behind-the-scenes tech guru to business and finance, the career opportunities at FOX are exciting, rewarding and game-changing. We seek out the most talented individuals – the dreamers, the disruptors and the visionaries –and we want them to know that they matter. We’re committed to helping every single one of our employees feel valued and inspired, every day.