Who we are

HopSkipDrive’s mission is to create opportunity for all through mobility.

Our safe, innovative youth transportation solution is used by schools, government agencies and busy families to get kids where they need to go. 

We’re a company with heart

Our partnerships with agencies, nonprofits and schools ensure educational access for some of our most vulnerable populations, including youth in foster care, youth experiencing homelessness, and youth with special needs. 

We understand that transportation can mean the difference between struggle and success, and our solution helps kids reach their full potential by arranging safe, dependable transportation. 

We’re an awesome place to work

Our company culture has been well-recognized — HopSkipDrive has been named to Best Places to Work lists from Built in LA, Comparably, Inc. and the Los Angeles Business Journal. Comparably also named us to the Best Company for Professional Development, Best CEO and Best CEOs for Women lists. HopSkipDrive is also proud to operate as a drug-free workplace.

We’re growing rapidly

Founded by three moms as a technology solution to their own transportation challenges, we’ve grown from serving the L.A. market to serving eight states and 15 markets across the country. We continue to expand at a rapid pace, making the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Fast-Growing Technology lists. 

Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, HopSkipDrive has raised $45M in funding to date and shares investors with well-known brands like Airbnb, Pinterest and Ring. 

Who you are

You are looking for a challenging and rewarding experience. You are inspired by our vision and the opportunity to define a new category in an incredibly fast-growing market. You are excited to learn, grow and collaborate so we can achieve our mission of creating opportunity for all through mobility.

At HopSkipDrive, we know that challenges require different approaches, unique perspectives and new ways of thinking. We are building a team of creative problem-solvers from many different backgrounds.

You write well tested, clean code, and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

You are an excellent communicator who knows when to ask for help. Above all, you want to build something that fundamentally changes the lives of families for the better.

What we’re looking for

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the app architecture, design, and implementation of features in iOS apps
• Build compelling in-app experiences
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product and design teams.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Think about ways to improve the product to serve the company's mission of making families' lives better
• Stay abreast of platform advancements/breaking changes and advise the team accordingly
• Identify opportunities for significant improvements to the app architecture
• Participate in our rotating on-call support for our iOS apps
• Sustain existing code by fixing bugs and monitoring app performance

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience developing applications for the Apple iOS ecosystem.
• Ability to translate functional acceptance criteria into manageable units of work, as well as document those units of work in a task tracking system such as Jia or GitHub.
• Proven prior experience contributing to and managing an application that is deployed on the Apple AppStore.
• Solid understanding of the Swift language, as well as some experience working in a mixed language environment with some ObjectiveC interoperability
• Knowledge of test-driven development (TDD) and how to effectively contribute to an application working within a TDD environment
• Comfortable working asynchronous/concurrent programming paradigms in the iOS ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of the UIKit layout system, with particular emphasis on autolayout, as well as the UIViewController/UIView rendering cycle.
• Familiar with and comfortable leveraging the software engineering patterns that are most ubiquitous within the Apple iOS development ecosystem
• Comfortable working with a dependency manager such as Cocoapods or Carthage

Nice to have

• Experience working with CoreLocation & CoreData. Any experience with persistence on iOS using CoreData or 3rd party frameworks such as FMDB would be a huge plus.
• Prior experience contributing to and deploying an application that is deployed on an internal over-the-air (OTA) distribution platform using Enterprise provisioning.
• Prior experience building user interfaces programmatically, without leveraging Interface Builder.
• Experience using SwiftUI
• Familiarity with a 3rd party programmatic layout framework such as SnapKit
• Familiarity with Reactive programming patterns in iOS, using a 3rd party framework such as RxSwift. Also, prior experience working with React Native would be a valuable asset.
• Some functional or academic exposure to MVC alternatives such as MVVM or MVP.

What you will get

We want you to be an owner in our company and share in executing our vision, so every full-time employee has equity. In addition, we offer competitive market compensation, BYOD technology reimbursement, unlimited vacation, FSA, medical, dental and vision, 401(k), and an opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HopSkipDrive is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected class.