Senior iOS Engineer

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place!

We’re looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users from proposal through to postmortem assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria. You will also:

• Step up to resolve product issues – large and small.

• Identify opportunities to increase searches and enhance the standard of trust online.

• Own major application features and take responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.

• Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions and code reviews.

• Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.

• Always work to improve the quality of the codebase.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.

• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

• Significant iOS engineering experience (7+ years), with experience working on at least two large native iOS applications.

• Experience programming in Swift.

• Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc., mobile threading, and memory management, and how they apply to mobile applications.

• A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms.

• Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and to collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.

• Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly

How We Will Support You

Our core values -- build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction -- underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, and whenever.

• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.

• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.

• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both i