We’re Hiring Senior iOS Engineer

is a leading mobile and web-based learning platform offering efficient and affordable study solutions for professional certifications. We believe that education should be within everyone’s reach. Professional certification exams are often a stressful and expensive barrier to career advancement – Pocket Prep strives to prepare our members to pass with confidence.The engineering team at Pocket Prep works alongside the product and design teams to develop the technical backbone of our applications. As the stewards of our codebases, engineering team members focus on their craft to provide high quality, resilient, and accessible products that help studiers of all walks of life achieve their goals. We strive to continuously improve our processes, coding standards, and patterns both as individual engineers and as a team to ensure that we’re always ready for the next challenge.About the RoleOur iOS engineers work to maintain and add new features to our native iOS Study app. This role will substantially contribute to our iOS production codebase and test suite, and will work in tandem with our Android engineers to produce a consistent experience across platforms. This can involve code review, participating in and leading technical kickoffs, and developing best practices. The role will also collaborate with our design team to implement a consistent and responsive UI that gels with both our product and the native OS look and feel. The right candidate will be focused not just on writing code, but being a great engineer, problem-solver, and teammate.What You Will DoDevelop and maintain our iOS Study application and test suitesWork closely with Android engineers to align our mobile experiences and architectural patterns across platformsCollaborate with the design team to implement UX changes and inform them of platform-specific behaviorIdeate with PMs to flesh out technical requirements, risks, and complexityWork with the larger engineering team to develop and iterate on our values, best practices, and code style guidelinesAbout YouWe’re looking for someone who has the following:Required:6+ years of native iOS development experience in SwiftStrong knowledge of the iOS platform framework and SwiftProficiency building UI in Interface BuilderExperience deploying apps to the App StoreXCTest framework proficiencyPreferred:Reactive architectural patterns/RxSwift proficiencyExperience building UI with SwiftUIFamiliar with iOS accessibility best practicesFamiliar with Android platform and Kotlin language, and able to understand and provide feedback on Android codeAnd exhibits the following qualities:An engineer’s mindset – writing code that will stand the test of time and address the problems at hand, rather than focusing on quick fixesA desire to collaborate with the team, knowledge share, and pair program to find optimal solutions and solve complex tasksStrong opinions, weakly held – use your expertise to provide input and feedback, while also keeping an open mind to possibilitiesLove for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for othersYou are also excited about our culture:Embrace a spirit of improvement and welcome feedbackChoose curiosity instead of judgmentShare your opinions and perspectives, and kindly disagree when you see things differentlyCraft is important to you; You prefer to do things well instead of rushedLove for continued learning individually and as a team, as well as making education more accessible for othersBenefitsPocket Prep is a leading mobile and web-based learning platform offering efficient and affordable study solutions for professional certification and licensure. We believe that education should be within everyone’s reach. High-stakes exams are often a stressful and expensive barrier to career advancement – Pocket Prep strives to prepare our members to pass with confidence.We care about people passing exams because we’ve been there. Co-founders Ken Gillette and Peter Murphy faced expensive, high-stakes tests for career-promoting professional credentials while they were co-workers at Lockheed Martin. Like tens of thousands of other Americans, they shelled out hundreds of dollars to register and buy the materials they thought would improve their chances of passing. After hauling textbooks, flashcards, and study guides to costly test prep classes, they founded Pocket Prep in 2011 to help people more effectively and inexpensively prepare for important assessments.Some of our employee benefits include:Stability: We’re 12+ years old, 100% profitable without investor backing and we continue to have year-over-year growth.Work/Life Balance: Freedom to live your life while accomplishing something awesome for everyone in education. Flexible PTO and a 3-week company-wide holiday break from mid-December through the New Year.Competitive Compensation: Generous profit-sharing program and total compensation that targets the 75th percentile.100% Healthcare: We cover all of our employees’ healthcare premiums because we are invested in your well-being. We also cover 80% of dependents.Hybrid Flexibility: You can work where and when you are most effective. We have an office in downtown Durham, North Carolina, and are supportive of hybrid work options.Give Back: We are active participants in our communities through volunteer partnerships with local nonprofits. We offer VTO (volunteer time off) for independent engagement with your community.Compensation Range: $161.3K