Staff iOS Architect

About this role:

Our mobile apps are crucial to Faire’s vision: Empowering entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We believe in empowering retailers to run their business from their pocket through a world-class mobile app. We are passionate about stunning design, exceptional user experience, and robust engineering practices, ensuring our software is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, and performant. We embrace an iterative approach, building minimum viable products, deploying to production weekly, A/B testing customer-facing changes, and continually refining based on data.

We are seeking a Staff iOS Architect to join our Discovery pillar. This engineer will be aligned with the pillar’s mission, working on some of our most important projects. We help retailers find exactly what they’re looking for on Faire, evaluate it as a product in their stores, and efficiently trial or purchase the product.

This role will also help set the technical vision for our iOS and improve the overall iOS architecture as a valued member of our staff engineering team in the larger iOS team at Faire.

The Discovery pillar drives our market growth by tuning Faire for each retailer, showcasing products that inspire business growth, helping them understand what will sell in their segment, and making it easy for them to expand into brands they may not have otherwise found. Discovery owns a significant amount of Faire’s revenue and the ability of our engineers to have an impact on Faire’s business is high.

As a Staff iOS Architect, you’ll collaborate with us to:

• Lead critical projects within the Discovery pillar, contributing directly to the core business objective of helping retailers find what they’re looking for.
• Collaborate with a talented team of backend and frontend/mobile developers to deliver a compelling product.
• Work with the broader mobile development team at Faire to solidify and grow our mobile architecture, establishing best practices and driving innovation.
• Coach and mentor mobile engineers in a fast-paced environment, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Improve the quality of our mobile apps through comprehensive testing strategies and a focus on long-term architectural health.
• Improve the iOS architecture, addressing technical debt and implementing forward-thinking solutions.

We’re excited about you because you have:

• 6+ years of iOS experience, having worked on multiple apps shipped to the App Store, with a strong portfolio demonstrating architectural contributions.
• Experience shipping and maintaining a mobile app over an extended period of time, with a proven track record of working with mobile apps at scale or having helped apps scale to millions of users.
• A passion for programming alongside strong problem-solving and architectural abilities, with a focus on elegant and scalable solutions.
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems, always seeking to innovate and improve.
• Previous experience on a platform team and a passion for scaling systems for a growing organization and user base, with a deep understanding of mobile infrastructure.
• A high bar for engineering excellence and a commitment to delivering high-quality, performant, and maintainable code.
• Curiosity to drive engineering impact outside of the iOS tech stack, demonstrating a holistic understanding of software systems.

Technologies we use and teach:

• Swift
• SwiftUI, UIKit
• Swift Concurrency
• Protocol Buffers
• Bazel

Salary range:

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $224,000 – $308,000 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.