Staff iOS Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve the long-term technical architecture for the Date Team's iOS applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability and exceptional user experiences.

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features across multiple product initiatives while balancing long-term technical health with product velocity.

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to shape product strategy, influence roadmap decisions and deliver customer-focused solutions.

• Champion engineering excellence by evolving coding standards, architectural patterns, testing strategies and development best practices across the iOS organisation.

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, architectural reviews, pair programming and coaching, helping engineers across multiple teams grow their technical capabilities.

• Drive adoption of modern iOS technologies including Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, structured concurrency and scalable architectural patterns such as MVVM, The Composable Architecture (TCA) or similar. [Suggested]

• Influence platform-wide improvements in application performance, accessibility, localisation, networking and developer experience to create sustainable engineering foundations. [Suggested]

• Embed AI-assisted engineering practices into software development, identifying opportunities to improve productivity, code quality, testing and knowledge sharing while encouraging responsible, transparent and inclusive AI usage.

• Collaborate with purpose, take ownership of technical outcomes, see initiatives through from insight to impact and adapt approaches with an agile mindset while modelling Bumble values of Courage and Respect.

About You

• Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.

• Extensive experience designing, building and shipping high-quality native iOS applications at scale.

• Deep expertise in Swift, with advanced knowledge of UIKit and significant production experience using SwiftUI.

• Proven experience designing scalable application architectures, including patterns such as MVVM, TCA, VIPER or equivalent architectures supporting large, complex codebases. [Suggested]

• Strong understanding of iOS concurrency, including async/await, Grand Central Dispatch, memory management and performance optimisation.

• Experience building resilient networking layers, integrating RESTful APIs, improving application performance and delivering highly accessible, localised mobile experiences. [Suggested]

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams through architectural leadership, collaboration and mentoring rather than formal people management.

• Comfortable evaluating and adopting AI-powered engineering tools, applying sound judgement to ensure outputs are accurate, secure, inclusive and aligned with engineering best practices while helping others develop AI fluency.

• You embody Bumble's values of Curiosity, Excellence and Respect, working collaboratively, taking ownership and helping teams deliver meaningful impact.