Staff iOS Platform Engineer: AI-Powered Foundations

Block; California; Vor Ort; USD 264.000 - 395.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Block, Inc. is seeking a Staff iOS Engineer to lead and shape the iOS platform used by Cash App, Square, and related products. You will own foundational systems, define architecture standards, and implement cross‑team solutions that scale with AI‑native development.

You will mentor engineers, drive multi‑quarter initiatives, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across multiple applications while promoting durable, reusable platform components.

Qualifikationen

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 8+ years in mobile engineering, including 4+ years building native iOS products.
• Deep expertise across modern and legacy iOS frameworks, Swift, and Objective‑C.
• Experience creating foundational systems, shared frameworks, or developer tooling used across multiple teams.
• A track record of leading strategic, multi‑quarter initiatives with broad adoption and durable impact.
• Experience connecting platform strategy to customer‑facing and multi‑tenant SaaS products.

Aufgaben

• Own and evolve foundational iOS systems, including architecture, navigation, deep linking, and shared UI foundations.
• Design shared libraries, frameworks, and developer tools relied on by product teams.
• Lead multi‑quarter migrations and foundational initiatives from proposal through adoption.
• Establish durable practices for testing, observability, performance, release safety, security, and maintainability.
• Improve developer and AI ergonomics for platform and product teams.

Kenntnisse

iOS architecture

Swift

Objective-C

Developer tooling

Mentoring

Cross-team influence

Security and reliability

AI-assisted development

Tools

Build systems

CI/CD

Observability

Performance profiling

Xcode

Jobbeschreibung

Block, Inc. is seeking a Staff iOS Engineer to lead and shape the iOS platform used by Cash App, Square, and related products. You will own foundational systems, define architecture standards, and implement cross‑team solutions that scale with AI‑native development.

You will mentor engineers, drive multi‑quarter initiatives, and ensure security, reliability, and performance across multiple applications while promoting durable, reusable platform components.