Senior Swift iOS Engineer

College Board – Technology Division, Pivot Team

100% Remote US based, working core EST hours

About the Team

The College Board’s Pivot team engineers, develops, and delivers products and customer-facing platforms critical to HigherEd institutions, students, and other internal and external stakeholders. We are a rapidly expanding elite team of engineers committed to building a privacy-forward product that will connect students and colleges. At maturity, our product will serve engaging content to students across multiple channels, including a widely used mobile app. We are highly motivated, initiative-taking and engaged technologists who take pride in implementing and building products that positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students annually.

About the Opportunity

As a Senior Swift Engineer, you are a highly skilled mobile developer and innovator. You possess extensive knowledge and expertise in building mobile applications and developing cloud-based technology & solutions. You relish the opportunity to bring your ideas and your love of coding to support, enhance and define the future of our iOS native mobile applications used by millions of students. You have an innate ability to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams while developing applications that integrate and communicate effectively with server-side APIs and enterprise backend systems. You are collaborative and intentional about aligning iOS development with broader engineering projects, ensuring a cohesive and scalable product architecture. You build strong relationships with Product Owners as a reliable technical partner in prioritizing the backlog, identifying problems, determining options to solve the problem, and communicating issues that have a broader scope.

In this role, you will:  

Design & Implementation (75%)

• Design and build high-quality native mobile applications for the Apple iOS platform

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications  

• Collaborate with Product Owners and across engineering teams to define, design, and deploy new features  

• Connect the application to back-end tools including the cloud, APIs, and push notifications  

• Assist with maintaining high engineering standards in code quality, organization, and automation

• Participate in testing to ensure proper application functionality

• Implement encryption techniques to protect content  

Team Operations & Success (25%)  

• Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables

• Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts

• Assist in the identification and resolution of production issues

• Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures

About You

You have:

• Ideally 7+ years of software development experience with a significant focus on iOS native mobile applications

• Strong proficiency with Swift and deep understanding of iOS frameworks

• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, deploying and releasing iOS applications in the App store

• Experience with complex SwiftUI and familiarity with UIKit

• Experience with GraphQL and the Apollo SDK framework

• Strong understand of mobile data layers, including networking APIs, deserialization, caching, and databases

• Proficiency in performance analysis and code optimization using Xcode and Instruments

• Proven ability to work in concert with cross-functional engineering teams and business partners

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline

• Authorization to work in the U.S.

Additional nice-to-haves:

• Capability developing applications for multiple target platforms from a single codebase

• Hands-on experience with server-side APIs and enterprise backend systems & JSON/XML

• Skill in API architecture in collaboration with backend teams

• Experience with backend for front-end server-side systems to optimize client-side experiences

• Experience and a willingness to work with the Agile software development methodology in a fast-paced, iterative, and multi-functional setting with contributors from various backgrounds, talents, and locations

About Our Process  

• Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled  

• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video scre