Senior iOS Engineer

About DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our browsers and extensions have been downloaded over 250 million times with our built-in private search engine, which has delivered over 100 billion searches. We are the 2nd largest search engine on mobile in the United States and 17 other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Poland, and Spain. Our private search engine is also 3rd in market share in the U.S. and over 20 major markets. We've been profitable since 2014, with annual revenue exceeding $100 million.

The Role

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.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users from proposal through to postmortem.
• Resolve product issues, both 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

• 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 (5+ 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.
• Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and to collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.
• Effective project management skills.
• Creative problem solvers and risk takers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of Kotlin and willingness to do Android related work would be considered a plus.

How We Will Support You

• Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development.
• Leadership Opportunities: Grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend.

Compensation

• Annual compensation: $176,000 USD and stock options.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Expect to travel at least two times a year for meetups and retreats.
• Expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

Join us in our mission to make privacy simple and accessible for everyone.