Lead Engineer

At Stitch Fix, our goal is to help our customers look great and feel great about themselves by revolutionizing how people shop. In a time-starved world where shopping often feels overwhelming, our business connects customers to clothes they love. Whether it’s helping someone dress for success at a new job or taking the stress out of packing for a family vacation, we fix clients’ closets – and they love us for it!We’ve built unique, innovative software for merchandising, warehouse and inventory management, remote styling, and logistics. We leverage vast amounts of client data to make decisions throughout the company. All of this results in a simple, powerful offering to our clients and a very successful business. We believe we are only scratching the surface of our opportunity, and we’re looking for incredible people to contribute!About EngineeringOur team is made up of people from varied backgrounds, including engineers who built and scaled organizations like Google, Netflix, eBay, GitHub, and LivingSocial. We build modern software with modern techniques like TDD, continuous delivery, DevOps, and service-oriented architecture. Cross-functional partnerships are deeply meaningful to us and are how we’ve built up immense trust with the people running the business.  We focus on high-value products that solve clearly identified problems but are designed in a sustainable way so that value continues to deliver in the long term.  In fact, some of our proudest moments come from solving business problems without writing a line of code.About the RoleYou will deliver products and solutions—not just features—by developing an understanding of how Stitch Fix works. We trust you to focus your time and efforts where they are needed most. Your commitment to applying technology to business challenges in clean & innovative ways will make you a trusted advisor to your partners and their teams. You will own projects and influence our direction.You won’t do this alone. Your team will collaborate with business partners to define product requirements, plans, and deliverables. You will work with team members to take advantage of learning and growth opportunities in tech and product through real day-to-day work. You will impact the business in tangible, visible ways and always have a seat at the table.We are looking for a Lead iOS Platform Engineer for our Mobile team in our San Francisco office or remotely. As one of our Lead Mobile engineers at Stitch Fix, you will work with product and technical stakeholders and other native mobile engineering team members to design, break down, implement and ship user-facing features for the native mobile applications. You will help lead technical decision making on the Mobile team, guiding the architecture of how we build major new mobile efforts at Stitch Fix as we vastly broaden the impact of mobile across Stitch Fix. You will provide thoughtful and careful feedback to other engineers on their implementations. You will help ensure that each iteration for teams you work with is a successful one by focusing on both near-term  goals and strategic goals for the future. You will also mentor other engineers and help guide close stakeholders from other disciplines such as Product and Design. We cannot succeed without creative engineers. Your cross-functional team will propose and build solutions to move the state of the art of Stitch Fix mobile technology forwards.About the TechnologyTechnologies we rely on to pursue solutions to business problems include:

• Latest Swift version
• iOS version: current and one previous version
• GraphQL
• Combine
• SwiftUI and UIKit
• Swift Concurrency
• Unit & UI testing

Even if you already have experience with these tools, you'll have the chance to get even better with them. And if you don't already use these tools, we will help you learn and become effective with them.You’re excited about this opportunity because...

• We work collaboratively as a distributed team—we are a primarily remote team and we use GitHub, Slack, and video conferencing extensively to collaborate.
• As an iOS platform team we  impact the client experience and developer experience for our partner teams. We have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of technical projects. A few of our recent projects have included everything from building out our design system to improving UI performance and accessibility, reducing build times, optimizing CI performance, and improving our architecture.
• Our workflow depends on testing and CI—we take testing and test automation seriously in order to build software we can rely on, and use CircleCI to bring it all together.

We use these tools and techniques to help us get the job done and we’re excited to share our expertise with new members of the team. You will have the opportunity to help us continue to adopt effective practices and technologies and explore their full potential.We are excited about you because... 

• You are enthusiastic about technology. You will collaborate to build solutions using the appropriate tools and contribute to design and architecture across multiple systems. You want to build on your experience and help us to adopt new technologies. You'll learn from us, and we'll learn from you. You care deeply about the experience you are delivering.
• You have a product-focused mindset. Our team works together to deliver projects that use technology to solve real business problems. Your team members and business partners will seek out your opinion on how the product you’re building should work. You aren’t afraid to dig deep and ask the tough questions of our customers, company, and executive team.
• You are interested in developing your leadership qualities.You should believe in what you’re doing and inspire others around you to be their best selves? Do you feel ownership for the projects you are working on?
• You have deep respect for your craft. We are dedicated to building software sustainably, using modern techniques. You're always looking for more and better ways to write software, and enthusiastic about sharing them with your team.
• You are respectful, empathetic, and humble. We want you to take your work seriously and be open to personal and professional growth. Successful engineers show everyone respect and consideration.

You'll love working at Stitch Fix because we...

• Are a successful, vibrant, fast-growing company
• Are a technologically and data-driven business.
• Are at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining shopping for the next generation.
• Are passionate about our clients and live/breathe the client experience.
• Get to be creative every day.
• Have a smart, experienced, and diverse leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas.
• Believe in autonomy & taking initiative.
• Have sunny offices in downtown San Francisco, CA  or your home :)
• Full support for remote wor
• Offer transparent, equitable, and competitive compensation based on your level to help eliminate bias in salaries, as well as equity and comprehensive health benefits.
• Are serious about our commitment to life-work balance, and have generous parental leave policies.