iOS Engineer I

About this role

Join Handshake's four-person iOS team as the first Engineer I, owning features end-to-end for an app used by nearly one million students weekly. You'll build in Swift/SwiftUI with mentorship from four senior engineers, shipping on a weekly cadence to help students discover jobs and connect with employers.

What you'll do

• Own iOS features from concept through App Store launch, including product discussions, development, testing, and iteration
• Build view models, integrate GraphQL/REST services, and ship UI components using the internal design system
• Write unit tests and contribute to acceptance test coverage for shipped features
• Work on high-visibility surfaces like job discovery, career events, and student profiles during peak seasons
• Participate in weekly release train with feature flags and staged rollouts
• Help develop AI-powered experiences and use AI tools in daily engineering workflow

What they're looking for

• Swift and SwiftUI (with UIKit experience)
• MVVM and Coordinator architectural patterns
• GraphQL and REST API integration
• Asynchronous programming and networking
• Unit testing and XCTest
• Git and code review practices
• iOS fundamentals (lifecycle, memory, performance)
• AI-assisted development tools

Benefits

• Mentorship from four senior engineers with named onboarding mentor
• Clear growth path to Engineer II with intentional development
• Weekly shipping cadence with modern tooling and CI/CD
• Work on consumer app at scale (1M+ weekly users)
• Impact on career outcomes for millions of students globally
• Access to AI tools and frontier AI lab partnerships

Likely interview questions

• Walk us through an iOS app you've shipped to real users—why did you structure it that way, and what would you change?
• Tell us about a time you took initiative on a project beyond what was asked of you. How did you handle feedback?