Senior iOS Engineer

The role

You will own and build core pieces of the Citizen iOS app, including live video, real-time alerts, and paid experiences. You will work with a small team of engineers and AI agents to ship code weekly.

What you will do

• Own real pieces of the core iOS app
• Run agents to write, review, test, and instrument code
• Drive initiatives including scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs
• Participate in a rotational Release Captain program to run weekly releases
• Build live video, broadcast, and real-time alert features
• Develop the paid experience including Premium and Protect
• Maintain operator tooling for the Mission Control team
• Manage app health including cold start, battery, and crash triage
• Register analytics events and ensure data accuracy
• Work with backend, design, product, and data teams

Required qualifications

• Shipped and owned a consumer iOS app used by millions
• Deep in Swift and the Apple platform including Swift 6 concurrency, networking, background execution, location, push, camera and video
• Worked in The Composable Architecture or a comparable unidirectional architecture at scale
• Worked in a modular SPM codebase
• Run a release including CI, beta distribution, phased rollout, crash triage, and hotfixes
• Worked on real-time or live media
• Build with AI and use agents to replace parts of your workflow
• Instrument data and check event landing in the warehouse
• High agency
• Want to be in New York, in the office, every day

Benefits

• Base salary of $200,000–$260,000 per year
• Equity

About the company

Citizen is the #1 safety app in the U.S. It is a live network, a newsroom, and a safety tool that distributes live videos of real incidents in real time.