iOS Team Lead (Founding Lead)

Our platform already boasts a thriving Android app and a community that sparks thousands of new conversations every day—yet the iOS experience is still waiting to shine. As our first iOS Team Lead for this app, you’ll take a well-defined product roadmap and core requirements, refine them into a practical engineering plan, and set the standards for quality and scalability. You’ll recruit and mentor a small iOS squad, foster a collaborative engineering culture, and work closely with Product and Design to translate user insights into features that delight. Expect the autonomy of a founding engineer, plus hands-on support from the existing Android and backend teams every step of the way.

In this role, you will

• Relaunch our iOS app from the ground up, turning a ready-made roadmap into a high-performance, production-ready experience
• Hire, mentor, and inspire a lean iOS squad, setting the bar for clean, testable code and modern engineering practices
• Own delivery timelines: break big goals into clear milestones and keep the team laser-focused on hitting them
• Establish the technical playbook—architecture, CI, code reviews—that will scale with millions of users
• Partner daily with Product, Design, Android, and Backend leads to turn bold ideas into features that delight users and solve real business challenges
  
  
  

It’s All About You

• 5+ years building and shipping consumer iOS apps, with at least one release that reached 100 k+ active users
• 2+ years in a Tech Lead or Team Lead role, hiring and coaching 2-5 engineers, running stand-ups, and guiding performance reviews
• Profound knowledge of Swift and iOS SDK
• Understanding of architectural concepts (MVVM+Clean Architecture)
• Deep understanding of Git and best practices (GitFlow, TBD, etc.)
• Familiarity with reactive programming (Combine)
• Experience with code signing and provisioning
• In-depth knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI
• Familiarity with Google SDK, Facebook SDK, and Lottie (optional)
• Thorough understanding of multithreading
• Testing experience, including Unit/UI/Integration testing
• Database experience with CoreData/Realm
• Networking experience, including REST and sockets
• Proficiency in following a Kanban-like process or Scrumban, with typical Scrum ceremonies
• Experience with dependency managers such as SPM, CocoaPods, and Carthage
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment tools (Jenkins, Fastlane, Bitrise)
• Knowledge of UI/UX patterns for mobile
• Experience with Design Patterns
• Results-oriented mindset, focusing on outcomes rather than processes
• Would be a plus
• Proven history of designing—or completely rebuilding—app architecture and clearly defending your technical choices
• Hands-on experience with cross-platform sharing layers (e.g., Kotlin Multiplatform)
  
  
  

What We Offer

• Care and support:
• 20 paid vacation days, 15 sick days, and 6 additional days off for family events
• 100% medical insurance coverage
• Sports and equipment reimbursement
• Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch
• Financial and legal support
• Position retention and support for those who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Participation in social initiatives supporting Ukraine
• Comfortable working environment:
• Work from our Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule
• Workspace rental reimbursement in other cities and abroad
• Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools
• Investment in your future:
• Collaborate with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals, sharing practical cases and expertise in the social networking niche
• 70% of our heads and leads have grown into their roles here – so can you!
• Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
• Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes
• Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events
  
  
  

Hiring process

• Intro call
• Tech Interview
• Final Interview
• Reference check
• Offer