We are looking for an iOS Engineer to participate at the highest level in our mobile team, helping design, architect and build Varsity Tutors’ iOS experiences. This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing team and help drive the technology and product future of our company. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build experiences that matter to our customers. At Varsity Tutors, engineers do not just write code; they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to our customers. If you love your customers as much as we do, we'd love to hear from you.

This position is a full-time remote opportunity! (We've been remote friendly for years and that isn't going away).

Note: Please feel comfortable applying, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position. We’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. Everyone can grow at Varsity Tutors.  We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups and people of diverse backgrounds to apply. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day!

About Varsity Tutors

We are transforming the way the world learns.

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, is the leading direct-to-consumer platform for live online learning benefiting both learners and experts. We have built a comprehensive online learning destination that enables the delivery of scaled high-quality live expertise for learners of all ages across thousands of subjects and multiple learning formats through the application of technology and AI. We've raised $107M million in venture capital from TCV, Learn Capital, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We also recently announced that Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors, plans to go public via a SPAC with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities later this year, with a $1.7 billion market valuation.

We succeed thanks to a diverse mix of talented people who want to come, to stay, and do their best work. If you love learning, technology, and making a true impact, you’re going to love working here!

In this position, you will…

• Create new, and improve our existing iOS application suite.   
• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design
• Collaborate with stakeholders and partners across teams and departments
• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better
• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented
• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations
• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry
• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team
  

Qualifications: 

• Expert level proficiency in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch
• Proficient in Swift (SwiftUI a plus)
• Have published at least one app on the App Store, preferably still available
• Extensive experience with major iOS Frameworks such as Core Data and Core Animation
• Extensive knowledge of Apple’s design principles and HIG 
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with deployment systems and pipelines such as Jenkins, Fastlane, and CodeShip
• Familiarity with implementing synchronous audio/video solutions is beneficial
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape,, emerging technologies, and trends
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience

Varsity Tutors Leadership Principles

Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot

Benefits/Culture:

• Once in a lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!
• Fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback rich culture
• Remote friendly
• Hackfest!
• Work-life balance 
• 52 hours of Free Learning Sessions per year for you or immediate families members and free access to our Virtual School Day classes and School@Home program
• Collaborative, and team-oriented work environment
• Try a free trial of our Live Learning Platform here: https://www.varsitytutors.com/freetrial

Varsity Tutors is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, or veteran status. (INDHP)