As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in driving the technical direction and architecture of our mobile platforms, ensuring our iOS and Android applications remain scalable, performant, and maintainable as the business grows. You will help define best practices, guide architectural decisions, and lead complex initiatives that improve the reliability and velocity of mobile development across the organization.
Our mobile apps power core customer experiences including shopping, selling, and account management, as well as internal applications used by teams supporting authentication, logistics, and operations. In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams to deliver seamless mobile experiences that support both customer engagement and internal productivity.
This role is ideal for a seasoned mobile engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and is passionate about building high-quality mobile products at scale. You will also mentor engineers across the team, contribute to improving engineering processes, and help drive the adoption of modern mobile technologies and development practices.
Your contributions will directly impact The RealReal’s ability to deliver best-in-class mobile experiences while supporting the operational systems that power our luxury resale marketplace.What You Get To Do Every Day
Own the technical direction and architecture of our iOS platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
Lead the development of advanced iOS features using Swift and SwiftUI, delivering high-performance and polished customer experiences
Drive platform modernization initiatives, including modularization, Swift Concurrency (async/await), and adoption of modern iOS architectural patterns
Define and enforce mobile engineering standards including architecture guidelines, coding conventions, testing strategy, documentation, and best practices
Lead initiatives to improve engineering velocity and developer experience through CI/CD automation, build optimization, and tooling improvements (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, etc.)
Establish and expand automated testing strategies including unit testing, UI testing, snapshot testing, and performance monitoring to ensure high product quality
Collaborate with backend and infrastructure teams to design and integrate scalable APIs and distributed systems using GraphQL and REST
Drive data-driven and AI-powered product experiences, including personalization, intelligent search, experimentation frameworks, and recommendation systems
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Analytics teams to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions
Lead the evolution of the mobile architecture and design systems, promoting reusable components and consistent user experience across applications
Improve observability, monitoring, and performance optimization across the iOS platform to ensure reliability at scale
Build experiences that scale across Apple device form factors, including iPhone and iPad, while maintaining strong accessibility and ADA compliance
Minimum Requirements:
Experience & Ownership: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years dedicated to iOS development, ideally thriving in agile or startup-like environments where you have owned end-to-end features.
Core Tech Stack: Deep expertise in modern iOS development utilizing Swift, SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency (async/await), Combine, and Core Data , alongside seamless integration of RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
Architecture & Testing: Proven ability to design scalable, modular mobile architectures and champion comprehensive unit and UI testing strategies to ensure high-performance code.
Cross-Platform Alignment: Track record of collaborating closely with Android and Backend engineers to define shared APIs, platform standards, and ensure feature parity across the mobile ecosystem.
Technical Leadership: Ability to mentor engineers, influence architectural direction, and take ownership of mobile performance, observability, and long-term reliability.
Preferred Requirements:
Hardware & IoT Integration: Architect and develop mobile applications that interact seamlessly with external hardware, IoT systems, and retail peripherals (scanners, cameras, payment devices).
Modernization & CI/CD: Champion mobile platform modernization and technical debt reduction , while improving engineering velocity through CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane, GitHub Actions) and internal tooling.
AI/ML & Data-Driven Products: Design and implement AI/ML-powered features, intelligent product recommendations , and experimentation frameworks to support data-informed product decisions.
Backend Systems Context: Leverage exposure to distributed backend architectures (such as Elixir or Ruby) to build robust, service-oriented integrations.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
401K with Company Match
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Paid Parental Leave
9 Paid Company Holidays
Flexible Time Off (With Manager Approval)
Find out more about our Benefits here.
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists, and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art, and home—in support of the circular economy. We make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off, and direct shipping. We handle all of the work for consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing their items, as well as shipping and customer service.
The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records. At TRR, People Come First. That’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our Diversity Equity and Inclusion program here.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
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What We Do
The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated luxury retail. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have 150+ in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day.
Why Work With Us
We are looking for smart and talented people who are creative, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and want to be part of a team that is reinventing the digital marketplace as you know it!
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