Senior Software Engineer (iOS), BlockFi Personalized Yield

BlockFi is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, iOS to join our growing Engineering team!

About Your Team

The BlockFi Personalized Yield (BPY) Engineering team empowers our clients to leverage personalized yield on the BlockFi platform. We build the tools & products that allow us to manage billions of dollars in assets which integrate with multiple internal and external services to provide a seamless experience for our clients. Our team is highly cross functional, and partners with various stakeholders across Engineering, Product, & Design. We’re looking for iOS Engineers who have experience building complex applications as part of a larger team and are excited to tackle some of the most interesting challenges in the Crypto/FinTech landscape. 

Your Mission

As a Senior Engineer, you will tackle hands-on, high impact work as we develop a platform built for global scale. At BlockFi, iOS Engineers are building the products that are at the very heart of our clients’ experience - over 70% of our clients’ daily activity comes from our mobile apps. In this role, you will act as technical leader for the team, identify and define problems, design and implement technical solutions and tools, and mentor and teach more junior engineers. We are looking for proactive, collaborative, and adaptive engineers who have real world experience at scale. 

• Architect/Design: 

• In partnership with peers on our Android team, we create architecture and formulate design decisions for Mobile which are aligned with business vision and meet quality criteria

• Work with diverse stakeholders to ensure our systems are built for availability, reliability, resilience, scalability, performance, and security from the ground up

• Write design proposals and review proposals from other engineers. Ensure tradeoffs are clearly and publicly documented, and that designs are aligned with business goals

• Deliver and Own Solutions: 

• Build, test, and deploy using Swift 5, Xcode 13+ and other technologies & tools. Bonus points if you have experience with Xcode Cloud

• Responsible for creating and executing on plans and designs end to end: estimating, prototyping, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production

• Work with stakeholders to understand and document both functional and quality attribute requirements

• Adhere to quality standards through cross-team communication, mentoring, code review, and backlog grooming

• Accountable for system availability and monitoring system health; ensure alerts, metrics, and runbooks are in place; and debug issues in production

• Adapt: 

• Quickly learn new tools and technologies, develop an understanding of existing systems, and identify and tackle high impact work

• Proactively seek to learn about the company, products, processes, and culture. Align technical decisions with business goals

Your Expertise

• Technical Breadth as well as Depth in Several Areas: 

• 5+ years of industry experience working with, designing and building production apps for iOS in Swift 

• Extensive experience with modern iOS frameworks and architecture, building scalable robust applications that feel light and performant (VIP/VIPER/Modular Architecture/Design Patterns/ Protocol Oriented Programming)

• Deep knowledge and understanding of the iOS SDK internals and how to optimize for performance and data usage(async operations/thread safety)

• Experienced in building complex, accessible user interfaces that scale and feel light

• You care about creating delightful experiences while understanding industry UI/UX best practices

• Experienced with CI/CD and build/release tooling (XCode Cloud/Fastlane/CircleCI/Github Actions)

• Developing and maintaining unit and UI tests is important to you (XCTest or similar)

• Able to clearly identify, communicate, and document technical tradeoffs, and guides others to do the same. As a bonus, mentoring, sharing knowledge and technical presentations are exciting to you

• Technical Ownership: Experience owning software systems end-to-end, designing, estimating, implementing, testing, maintaining, debugging, and supporting high-quality software in production

• Communication: Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. 

• Collaboration: Empathetic and does the legwork required for building consensus. Always seeks out feedback on technical designs, solutions, and code

• Initiative and focus on outcomes: Works independently and takes initiative while maintaining transparency and collaboration. Can deliver high quality solutions without assistance. Proactively identifies problems and comes to conversations with possible solutions 

• Adaptive: Ability and motivation to quickly learn new languages, technologies and tools. Pragmatic bias toward outcomes, and technical decisions that solve real business problems

Your Perks

We benefit from the great work our employees do each day. That is why we are committed to providing a variety of awesome benefits to help them live their best lives.

• Competitive salary because we value your experience and expertise
• Unlimited vacation / sick days because everyone deserves time for R&R
• Flexibility and remote working because we are a geographically dispersed team who believe in balance
• Weekly lunch credit because there is such a thing as a free lunch!
• An agile vibrant culture of enthusiastic and driven people to work alongside because teamwork makes the dreamwork
• Medical coverage because your physical health and well-being is important to us
• Various fringe benefits such as top of the range tech products, employee referral bonus, and employee group events
• A close-knit team of enthusiastic, collegial and driven people to work alongside in a highly meritocratic environment because teamwork makes the dreamwork