Principal Engineer (IOS Architecture)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (IOS Architecture): Defining and evolving the architecture for the iOS app, ensuring it is scalable, performant, and maintainable. Focus on technical direction and long-term strategy aligned with product goals, system design, modularity, and code quality.

Company

hirify.global is merging human creativity with the breakthrough capabilities of AI to transform digital note-taking into an inspiring and innovative experience.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the architecture for our iOS app, ensuring it is scalable, performant, and maintainable.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to shape solutions that deliver great user experiences while meeting engineering constraints.
• Write reference implementations, lead architecture reviews, and support teams with technical guidance and mentorship.
• Champion best practices in system design, modularity, code quality, and testing.
• Prototype and solve some of our most complex technical challenges.

Requirements

• Strong technical background in building and scaling high-impact B2C products, ideally with millions of users.
• Deep expertise in mobile architecture – iOS (Swift).
• Proven experience architecting complex systems, ideally in a mobile or multi-client environment.
• Ability to influence and lead across teams through mentorship, communication, and technical leadership.
• Passion for architecture and innovation.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time collaborative productivity products.
• Experience with local/offline-first experience and event-sourced systems.
• Experience leading architectural initiatives across multiple teams or working closely with engineering leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote, flexible working hours and location.
• Medical insurance.
• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startup.
• Budget for noise-cancelling headphones, home office setup, personal development, professional training, and health & wellness.
• Sponsored visits to the Hong Kong or London office every 2 years.

Hiring process

• Introduction with the Talent Team.
• Live coding & Technical interview with one of our Engineers.
• Hiring Manager interview: discuss leadership/management experience and biggest challenges.
• Present your passion - A short presentation about something you love and enjoy.