Senior iOS Engineer

Your Impact

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We’ve built a fantastic (and highly rated) mobile experience for students to discover jobs, events, and information from their peers over the past few years. We’ve focused quite a bit on creating a delightful user experience, but we have so much more work to do! That's why we are looking for a Senior iOS engineer to join our Events and Fairs team in Berlin. In this role, you will build features and support the Events and Fairs team to make the employers and students to have even better experience on the events they attend and organise. You will be working closely with product, design and engineering teams to create a fantastic experience for our users both the students and the employers. You will also have the opportunity to shape the foundation of iOS development and mobile culture at Handshake in Berlin as a first iOS engineer here.

Your Role:

• You get to architect and build new features for a rapidly growing user base.

• You'll be working on a small, multi-functional team with other engineers, a designer, and a product manager.

• You’ll have the opportunity to help establish new paradigms and patterns as we scale our team to a large Mobile organization.

• We’ll rely on your experience in general engineering architecture discussions as well as product planning meetings.

• You’ll help maintain a high level of code craftsmanship through thoughtful code review.

• You’ll mentor junior engineers and share your experience and knowledge with senior engineers in order to level up the codebase as well as our shared knowledge.

Your Experience:

• You have an eye for good design

• You appreciate friendly user experiences

• You are self-driven and able to prioritize your time

• You are a problem solver and a critical thinker who can communicate effectively

• You have 4+ years of professional working experience with the iOS platform

• You have on the job experience with Swift

• You have on the job experience with UI development

• You have on the job experience with data persistence, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, MVC, and MVVM+C architectures

Technologies you'll work with

• SwiftUI, UIKit, Snapkit, MVVM+C, Swift, XCTest, Fastlane, and more

• Targeting iOS 16+

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About us

Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 750,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, and nonprofits. This Series F fundraise and valuation of $3.5B will fuel Handshake’s next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look here at Handshake. With our Hub-Based Remote Working strategy, employees can enjoy the flexibility of remote work, whilst ensuring collaboration and team experiences in a shared space remains possible. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, London, and Berlin and teammates working globally.

Check out our careers site to find a hub near you!

What we offer

Benefits below apply to employees in full-time positions.

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

• 💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.
• 💝 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
• 💻 Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
• 📚 Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.

(US Handshakers)

• 🏦 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
• 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.

(UK Handshakers)

• 🏦 Pension Scheme: Handshake will provide you with a workplace pension, where you will make contributions based on 5% of your salary. Handshake will pay the equivalent of 3% towards your pension plan, subject to qualifying earnings limits.
• 🏝 Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset, recharge, and refresh, in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.

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