Senior Software Engineer (iOS)

About VSCO

VSCO (pronounced vis–co) is a platform that equips photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration, and connection.

At VSCO, our mission is to nurture creativity so you can make it. We empower photographers to connect with other creatives and businesses with our suite of creative tools that spans from mobile to desktop and across our global community. We are looking for humble overachievers and self-starters who are naturally curious, highly organized, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. We foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, ambition, and progress. 

About The Role

VSCO is looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our team. The team's mission is to provide the best platform to create, connect and earn, by making every user journey frictionless, secure, and personalized. The team's scope spans across the most business critical user experiences, empowering you to drive significant impact and grow in your career. You will have the opportunity to implement elegant user interfaces with an attention to detail, and build and ship complex product experiences on frequently updated business critical iOS apps.

The right candidate for this role is scrappy and hands-on and thrives in environments that are “team first”. Ideally, you are always looking for ways to improve the way product is created and built and you champion new initiatives to improve the craft of engineering. 

In This Role, You Will

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across teams to understand the vision, technical direction, and roadmap
• Architect and implement best-fit solutions aligned with the company's strategy to deliver maximum value to our creators
• Build clean, testable, maintainable, and idiomatic code, and drive the team forward in relation to code quality
• Deliver solutions both in collaboration with other engineers or independently, depending on the scope and schedule of the project
• Collaborate to solve business problems by understanding our users' needs and develop appropriate technical solutions to address them
• Drive and contribute to all stages of development cycle: technical design, testing, peer review, and development of scalable, high-quality production code
• Measure impact on system and business, effectively and actively debug and resolve issues
• Demonstrate a bias for action, adopt a solution-oriented approach, and cultivate a growth mindset to drive continuous improvement
• Contribute to a culture that values quality, trust, and curation through collaboration and alignment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working on mobile applications on iOS (Swift and/or Objective-C)
• Knowledge of established and modern mobile tech stacks: SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine
• Understanding and technical application of clean architecture and modularization, to deliver testable and scalable software
• Experience owning projects end-to-end from initial prototypes to customer roll out
• Professional experience working on mobile consumer applications
• A great prioritizer who can effectively assess, designate  and deliver value for the product, company, and stakeholders, making right-fit and strategic trade-offs to drive success
• Comfortable with ambiguity and being scrappy and resourceful 

Job Perks

• A virtual first workplace with bi-annual company-wide travel events to connect and play
• Competitive Salary & Equity 
• Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
• Flexible Time Off
• Company-paid parental, medical and caregiver leave

Why VSCO?

We value the creative process and our employees’ opinions — input is encouraged, regardless of your position or title. We want to work with people who are driven and demonstrate initiative in taking our mission to the next level.

We believe in building a safe place for creative expression and celebrating that which makes us human, welcoming unique and personal backgrounds and experiences. We’re proud to foster diverse perspectives within VSCO as we continue to build an inclusive culture.

Compensation

The base salary for this position may vary based on several factors, including the approved job level. The base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $190,000. Salary is one component of our total compensation package. This position also qualifies for equity (i.e. stock options) and is eligible for discretionary bonuses based on performance. The benefits available for this position include flexible time off, a 401K retirement plan, insurance (medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short and long term disability), and 11 paid holidays. We also provide paid sick time as required by state and local law. Additional benefits and perks contained in our standard employee benefits package are also offered for this position.

Please note: 

The application window for this role will be open until at least 1/3/2024. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date