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Senior iOS Engineer, Media Experience

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Senior iOS Engineer, Media Experience in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead iOS architecture and technical strategy for features that improve video discovery, consumption, watch time, retention, and daily active video users.
  • Design and build immersive video viewing surfaces and intuitive native iOS user experiences.
  • Partner with senior management and cross-functional teams to support rapid prototyping, A/B testing, experimentation, and data-informed product decisions.
  • Translate HLS streaming, personalized recommendations, and media platform capabilities into seamless iOS features.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, backend, Feeds, and ML ranking teams on roadmap and execution.
  • Establish best practices for media integration, complex media lifecycles, app stability, rendering performance, and constrained-device or network scenarios.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on iOS experience developing user-facing native mobile applications at scale using Swift.
  • Experience leading cross-team technical projects tied to business outcomes such as watch time or daily active users.
  • Strong data-informed decision-making skills involving experimentation, funnels, retention, and Quality of Experience metrics.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, work at growth-team speed, and communicate technical trade-offs to peers and executive stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience optimizing video player performance or building feature-rich products on core media playback components such as AVFoundation and VideoToolbox.
  • Familiarity with HTTP Live Streaming and integrating with recommendation or feed systems is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Global benefits supporting workspace, professional development, caregiving, family planning, gender-affirming care, and mental health and coaching.
  • Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
  • The role may include equity in restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, commission.
  • U.S.-based employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance and other benefits described by Reddit.
  • Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI in select roles and locations, with an opportunity to opt out.

Salary: $191k - $267k/yr

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