Lead iOS Mobile Engineer

Company Description

Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Let’s make.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth: When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Job Description

Cricut is looking for a talented Lead iOS Mobile Engineer to help us take our iOS native apps to the next level. The position demands a candidate capable of doing high-quality work against technical and schedule challenges, while following strong software design and process principles. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in a dynamic team, working on cutting edge mobile technology. You are a driver of change and you have yet to meet a technological challenge you cannot resolve. You are dedicated to developing clean code that will help shape the iOS mobile software which thrills our users. 

Responsibilities 

• Hands-on role where you will be working alongside the team

• Lead technical architecture, coding standards, and other team processes and policies 

• Work with PM and UX on story refinement, articulate engineering concerns, and guide technical direction 

• Work with cross functional teams on quarterly planning and plan work for the team 

• Apply software engineering design patterns to develop well-structured, modular, performant application code 

• Run Scrum ceremonies 

• Work collaboratively with product manager to drive features and maintain the backlog 

• Serve as a technical mentor and know how to delegate tasks to the team 

• Perform code reviews, write unit and UI tests, and contribute to architectural planning and refactoring 

• Collaborate with API teams on API design 

• Drive software releases includes releasing apps to the App Store 

Eligibility 

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable field with 5+ years relevant experience 

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing iOS mobile native applications in Swift/SwiftUI (experience in The Composable Architecture is a big plus)

• Solid knowledge of iOS UI design principles, best practices, and development life cycle 

• Experience with at least one of these design architectures: MVVM, MVC, VIPER, Clean Architecture 

• Experience consuming RESTful JSON/XML web services, Open API standard (Swagger) 

• Experience in testing high volume applications: unit test, integration test, performance test 

• Experience with Git and GitFlow 

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies 

• Experience in mentoring junior members 

• Experience in project management 

• A solid grasp of fundamental algorithms, data structures, and design patterns 

• Ability to prototype new features and redesign existing ones

• Excellent problem solving, debugging skills, critical thinking, and communication skills 

• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions 

• Aptitude and desire to independently learn new technologies 

• Working knowledge of Internationalization 

Preferred Skills 

• Experience in working with offshore contractors 

• Experience in continuous integration and delivery (e.g., Bitrise, GitHub Actions) 

• Experience in Core Animation, Core Graphics, Core Bluetooth 

• Experience in automated user interface functional testing 

• Experience with iOS performance profiling tools and optimization techniques

• Experience with Google Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics 

Additional Information

What to Do Next: Please attach your resume including links to your Github and website where applicable. If you want to show your super powers in other ways – include that information too. You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information!