Lead Software Engineer - Mobile iOS (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we take a people-centric approach to everything we do. Our Athletes, how we refer to customers, and our Teammates, how we refer to our employees, are at the center of every decision we make so that we can provide transformational experiences online, in store, and in sport. When you join Technology at DICK’S Sporting Goods, you’re joining a true team that wins together. We help our Athletes and fellow Teammates better their best by innovating solutions to interesting business problems and empowering every Technology Teammate to be an innovator. And, while we work remotely from all over the United States, we provide virtual and in-person events for the team to hangout, from virtual escape rooms to cheering on the Pittsburgh Pirates at beautiful PNC Park.

JOB PURPOSE

Acts as a product-team problem solver and domain SME to design, test, and deliver best in class solutions. Perform business/software analysis. Coordinate work with moderate complexity within assigned product team.

You’ll join a high-impact iOS product team responsible for delivering flagship mobile experiences used by millions of customers. The team operates in a collaborative, Agile environment, partnering closely with design, product, backend, and QA to bring user-centric features to life. As a lead, you will guide architectural decisions, elevate coding standards, PR reviews and mentor engineers to ensure the team consistently delivers secure, scalable, and delightful applications.

TECH STACK

• Languages & Frameworks: Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C (legacy support), Combine, Swift Concurrency (async/await, actors)

• Architecture: MVVM, Clean Architecture, modular codebases, dependency injection

• Networking: URLSession, Combine/async networking, REST APIs

• CI/CD & Tooling: Xcode, BitRise, GitHub Actions, XCTest/SwiftTesting, SwiftLint

• Third-Party Integrations: Firebase, Adobe Experience Platform, analytics SDKs, push/messaging services

• Collaboration & Documentation: Git/GitHub, JIRA/Confluence, README/templates, Agile/Scrum workflows

RESPONSIBILITIES

Software Development

Lead the development of complex iOS applications, with a focus on SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, and modern Apple frameworks. Deliver secure, performant, and scalable software that meets product and business requirements.

Software Maintenance

Oversee monitoring and resolution of critical software defects within the product team. Ensure smooth functioning of apps by applying advanced debugging techniques and concurrency-safe fixes.

Design and Conceptualization

Collaborate with cross-functional partners to conceptualize and design intuitive mobile experiences. Drive architectural discussions and ensure solutions are aligned with modular, reusable design patterns like MVVM and SOLID Principals.

Technical Developments Recommendation

Evaluate and recommend innovative tools, frameworks, and concurrency models (e.g., async/await, actors) to enhance performance, reliability, and developer productivity to better meet users’ and/or business, performance, quality needs.

Software Roadmap

Own and maintain the iOS technical roadmap, aligning development priorities with evolving product needs/business requirements and long-term scalability.

Faults Diagnosis and Correction

Identify root causes of concurrency issues, race conditions, UI Issues and performance bottlenecks, and deliver sustainable resolutions promptly.

Work Scheduling and Allocation

Plan and allocate engineering tasks for medium- and long-term milestones, coordinating across multiple app modules and across teams.

Functional/Technical Requirements

Support the collection functional requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.

Modular Architecture & Data Strategy

Drive improvements in modularization and concurrency-safe data access patterns across cart state management, user preferences, analytics event queuing, and configuration handling in a highly modular iOS architecture.