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Senior Software Engineer, Mobile iOS (UK)

The Athletic

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile iOS (UK)

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Hiring Remotely in London, Greater London, England, GBR

In-Office or Remote

Digital Media • Sports

The Role

About Us

Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 450+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About the Role

Our ideal candidate will own key aspects of our native iOS application and contribute to our core features and architecture. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can build beautiful, polished user experiences and architect elegant, maintainable code. We prioritize code quality and performance above all else. Successful candidates keep up-to-date with best practices and have a familiarity with the latest frameworks from Apple.

You can check out our current iOS app here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317

Responsibilities

Work alongside other iOS and Android engineers to maintain a high quality platform on which we can build amazing mobile apps that our readers love.

Optimize our platform for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.

Be a steward for platform-specific fidelity and native integrations (e.g. Widgets)

Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality

Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.

Collaborate with Full Stack, Design, Product, and Data teams to engineer complete, end-to-end solutions that prioritize observability and experimentation.

Requirements

5+ years’ professional experience with native iOS development in Swift.

Solid understanding of multi-threaded networking, especially async/await.

Practical experience with MVVM pattern.

Our app is almost entirely SwiftUI, therefore a high level of comfort with it is required to be successful.

Consumer facing product and design instincts with desire to have a voice in product decisions.

Knowledge of Git/GitHub and best practices for peer code review.

Claude Code and GraphQL experience a plus.

The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our UK benefits packages offer benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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The Company

New York, NY

603 Employees

Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Here for every sports story that matters. -- The Athletic (http://theathletic.com) is a subscription-based media publisher of smarter sports coverage for die-hard fans. Founded in 2016, The Athletic’s all-star team of writers have produced thousands of quality stories for subscribers free of ads, pop-ups and auto-play videos. The Athletic now offers in-depth local coverage in 47 North American pro sports markets along with premium national coverage across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA & more. Readers can count on original, authentic storytelling written by talented local and national sports journalists like Ken Rosenthal, Pierre LeBrun, Seth Davis, Stewart Mandel, Shams Charania and many more. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.