About the Project

We are partnering with a startup studio launching a consumer mobile product in the pet-tech and digital companion space. The product combines virtual pet ownership, personalization, content experiences, and emotional engagement into a mobile-first platform designed to create daily habits and meaningful user connections. Users can adopt and care for digital companions, personalize their experience, interact with pet-related content, and build long-term engagement through lightweight, rewarding interactions. The founding team has successfully built and scaled multiple technology companies and is now investing heavily in creating a category-defining consumer product. The focus over the next 12 months is rapid iteration, user growth, retention optimization, and building a highly polished mobile experience that users genuinely love.

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Role and Responsibilities

• Own the iOS application end-to-end, from architecture decisions to App Store releases.
• Design, build, and maintain a high-quality Swift-based mobile application focused on performance, engagement, and user delight.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, growth, and backend teams to ship new consumer-facing features.
• Build engaging experiences around personalization, user profiles, content consumption, notifications, rewards, and retention mechanics.
• Develop rich mobile interfaces with smooth animations, delightful interactions, and strong attention to visual quality.
• Optimize app performance across a wide range of devices, ensuring responsive UI, efficient memory management, and fast startup times.
• Integrate APIs, analytics systems, feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and monetization capabilities.
• Implement offline support, local persistence, synchronization mechanisms, and reliable state management.
• Contribute to growth initiatives through A/B testing infrastructure, user behavior instrumentation, and experimentation tooling.
• Maintain high engineering standards through modular architecture, automated testing, code reviews, and scalable engineering practices.
• Support App Store releases, TestFlight distribution, crash monitoring, and production debugging.
• Help shape the long-term mobile architecture as the product scales from early users to a much larger consumer audience.

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What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• 4+ years of professional iOS development experience building and shipping consumer-facing applications.
• Strong proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development practices.
• Experience working with UIKit and/or SwiftUI in production environments.
• Deep understanding of mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM, Clean Architecture, or similar approaches.
• Experience building highly interactive mobile experiences with animations, gestures, and polished UI flows.
• Strong understanding of networking, local storage, caching, synchronization, and API integrations.
• Experience implementing analytics, event tracking, feature flags, and experimentation frameworks.
• Track record of successfully publishing and maintaining apps on the App Store.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to balance technical quality and business impact.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote-first environment.
• Comfortable operating in startup environments with ambiguity and rapid iteration cycles.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working on consumer social, gaming, creator, lifestyle, wellness, or mobile-first subscription products.
• Experience building habit-forming products with retention loops, engagement systems, and notification strategies.
• Familiarity with mobile monetization models, subscriptions, in-app purchases, and lifecycle optimization.
• Experience with media-heavy applications involving images, video, or rich content feeds.
• Experience integrating Firebase, AWS, GraphQL, or modern backend platforms.
• Experience scaling mobile products from early-stage MVPs to larger user bases.
• Background in startup or founder-led environments.
• Strong interest in product design, user psychology, and consumer growth mechanics.

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Why Join Us?

• Join a proven founding team with a strong track record of building and scaling technology companies.
• Own a critical part of the product and have significant influence over architecture, product direction, and technical strategy.
• Work directly with decision-makers and see your impact reflected in real user behavior.
• Help build a consumer product from an early stage through growth and scale.
• Opportunity to evolve into a long-term leadership or founding-engineer position as the company expands.
• Remote-first culture with flexibility, autonomy, and high trust.
• Fast-moving environment focused on shipping, learning, and building products users genuinely love.

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Application Instructions

Please send the following and we will contact you:

• Your résumé/CV highlighting relevant iOS applications you have built and shipped.
• Links to App Store projects, portfolio, GitHub, or other relevant work samples.
• Your availability and expected compensation.
• Brief description of the most impactful consumer mobile product you have worked on and your specific contributions.
• Any startup, founding engineer, or high-growth product experience you would like to highlight (optional but highly valued).