Staff iOS Engineer — Lead Native App for Biosensing

Abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefit

Great place to work

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Staff Mobile Engineer to lead iOS development for the Lingo biosensing platform in Alameda, CA. You will set architectural direction, own large initiatives, and drive modernization from React Native to native iOS while partnering with product and cross-functional teams.

You will apply deep Swift expertise, modern architectures, and observability practices to deliver high-quality, scalable iOS apps across a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional iOS engineering experience, including significant experience leading the architecture and technical direction of production consumer applications.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development, including SwiftUI, and current architectural patterns (MVVM, MVI, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of React Native sufficient to assess existing React Native code, plan a native migration, and bridge between React Native and native modules during a phased transition.
• Strong track record of leading the full development lifecycle: architecture, coding, testing, CI/CD, release management, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience partnering with backend teams to design efficient mobile APIs and offline-first solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead discovery and high-level design for technical initiatives.
• Experience championing automated testing, code quality standards, and secure mobile development practices at an organizational level.
• Strong collaboration and technical leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across a globally distributed engineering team spanning the US, Spain, and India.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of complex iOS applications and shared iOS platform components (SDKs, libraries, tooling), ensuring high-quality code and adherence to best practices.
• Design and implement sophisticated features in iOS applications, analyzing and optimizing app performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Define and drive modern iOS architecture standards, including Swift, SwiftUI, Combine/async-await, MVVM/MVI, and modularization.
• Own large, ambiguous initiatives from concept to production, establishing long-term iOS technical strategy including modularization, CI/CD, build optimization, and observability.
• Participate in managing code and configurations across multiple environments, the release management process, and environment configuration and controls, working closely with Platform Engineering.
• Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to arrive at high-level design, and collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical specifications.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues, and champion strong observability practices including crash analytics and performance monitoring.
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into iOS applications, including on-device and cloud-powered solutions, to deliver intelligent, personalized experiences while ensuring privacy, security, and performance best practices.
• Lead migration of the consumer mobile app from React Native to fully native iOS, owning migration strategy, sequencing, and architecture decisions, including bridging RN and native code during transition, preserving feature parity and stability.
• Evaluate existing React Native components and screens for migration complexity, define native module and screen replacement patterns, and set the technical standard the rest of the iOS team follows.

Skills

iOS engineering

Swift

SwiftUI

MVVM

MVI

React Native

CI/CD

Testing

Observability

AI/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

React Native

GraphQL

Core ML

Bluetooth Low Energy

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Staff Mobile Engineer to lead iOS development for the Lingo biosensing platform in Alameda, CA. You will set architectural direction, own large initiatives, and drive modernization from React Native to native iOS while partnering with product and cross-functional teams.

You will apply deep Swift expertise, modern architectures, and observability practices to deliver high-quality, scalable iOS apps across a distributed team.