Senior Staff Engineer, iOS

Overview

Senior Staff iOS Engineer role setting technical direction for iOS and the mobile-facing systems that shape product quality across AlphaSense customer workflows, with significant architectural ownership and multi-team leverage.

What you'll do

• Define the technical direction for iOS and the mobile-facing systems that make AlphaSense experiences fast, reliable, secure, and easier to evolve across teams.
• Turn complex mobile-system problems into durable production architecture grounded in deep iOS expertise.
• Shape how mobile work is designed, reviewed, tested, shipped, and operated across initiatives, including automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI-enabled validation.
• Help teams define the boundaries, ownership, and operating expectations that let mobile-facing systems evolve without pushing hidden complexity into native clients.
• Turn complex mobile-system work into reusable standards and stronger engineering judgment for the teams building native experiences.

What you'll need

• Deep expertise in modern production iOS architecture, with a track record of setting technical standards beyond one feature team.
• Ability to represent mobile platform principles from a deep iOS base, with enough Android fluency to shape cross-functional architecture decisions where backend, web, and product choices affect identity, reliability, release quality, observability, and native product outcomes.
• Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts or backend service boundaries that improve product quality across native and adjacent client surfaces.
• Ability to read, debug, and contribute to backend systems when needed to unblock mobile-facing outcomes.
• Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems that improve validation, product quality, and delivery confidence across teams.
• Strong reliability and release-quality judgment across production mobile systems, with experience raising quality standards across multiple initiatives.
• Track record making engineers around you better by turning complex mobile-system work into clear standards, reusable patterns, and stronger technical judgment across teams.
• Excellent product judgment and communication skills, including the ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and align teams around durable technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience building Apple-platform product experiences across varied device and form-factor contexts, such as iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay, or other platform-native surfaces.
• Experience with enterprise mobile environments where identity, device management, compliance, or security constraints shape architecture, including MDM/MAM.
• Experience shaping mobile design-system foundations and design-to-code workflows that improve consistency, accessibility, development velocity, and AI-assisted UI generation across native platforms.

Details

• Location: Remote - United Kingdom.