Senior Staff iOS Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business, enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more.

We are seeking a Senior Staff iOS Engineer to take on a highly influential, individual contributor role within our Product & Platform Developer Experience Team. This is not a people management position. It is a technical and cultural leadership mandate to revolutionize how iOS engineering is performed across the entire company.

In this unique capacity, you will act as the head of our iOS Engineering Guild and a force multiplier for all mobile development. You will treat our internal engineers as your primary customers, focusing on their work quality/velocity, job gratification, and passion for Favor products and services. Your goal is to eliminate friction, whether that’s through modernizing our iOS architecture, improving our CI/CD on self-hosted runners, implementing robust test automation, or spearheading the use of AI to eliminate bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and outdated engineering processes.

The ideal candidate possesses exceptional product sense (applied to the developer toolchain) and excels at organizing, influencing, and aligning highly senior members of the engineering team. You will be expected to work in close partnership with Technical Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering leaders to define and drive a scalable, company wide strategy for our mobile platform.

What you'll do::
• Pioneer and lead technical vision, architecture, and standards for iOS Engineering.
• Implement robust, next-generation test automation and performance monitoring solutions.
• Explore and integrate cutting-edge technologies, such as AI, to reduce code review bottlenecks and enhance developer assistance.
• Identify and champion processes and tooling improvement opportunities at the engineering organization level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices.
• Lead architectural design and enable all engineers to understand system/application designs.
• Collaborate with Product Management and engineering across all disciplines to plan solutions for large features; eliminate barriers to scale through technology and process, and provide building blocks of world-class applications and services.
• Serve as the iOS Guild Lead, driving horizontal technical alignment and code standards across all teams.
• Own the mobile CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions & self-hosted runners), lead the transition to fully automated UI testing, and implement AI-driven workflow improvements.

Skills you have::
• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
• Expert understanding of software design patterns to write clean, well-structured, idiomatic code leveraging the full power of a language.
• 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience; including experience in a high-growth startup.
• Deep experience with CI/CD for mobile and managing build hardware/runners.
• Proven experience leading technical guilds or driving organizational change (e.g., feature flag adoption, test automation) across multiple teams without direct managerial authority.
• Expert proficiency in Swift and the iOS ecosystem.
• Deep knowledge of GitHub Actions (including self-hosted runners) and UI Test Automation frameworks.
• Proficiency in applying AI/LLMs to engineering workflows. Experience with feature flagging strategies (e.g., LaunchDarkly) and internal tooling.
• Expert understanding of test automation techniques, data engineering, and security.

Who you are::
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms with technical (UX, design, product management and across engineering teams) and non-technical stakeholders and work with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
• Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams
• Appreciation of simple design and a love to write clean, well-tested code - test-first or TDD approaches are a plus.
• Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and the ability to diagnose issues within the system.
• Ability to gather and define software requirements, considering multiple patterns and strategies to build efficient solutions.
• Ability to create solutions to problems under various constraints using novel algorithms and data structures.
• Understands company goals, and is able to develop technical solutions, vision, and strategy to advance the company's goals and strategy.
• Ability to act as a mentor across all squads and foster a culture of mentoring across teams by seeking out mentoring opportunities for others, and supporting others in their growth as mentors.

Life at Favor

Where you’ll work: This is a hybrid role, meaning you’ll work from home roughly three days per week and collaborate with other team members in person at our HQ in Austin, Texas for the remaining work days. No matter where you work best, we foster an inclusive and flexible environment to support our workforce.

Benefits: We offer premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance, alongside 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics, while also throwing in a Favor Gold subscription and H-E-B discounts!

Paid time off (PTO): We offer unlimited PTO for salaried employees (that’s actually unlimited) and ample vacation time to all team members.

Learning and development: We encourage personal growth and education through Intern(al)ships and Learning Labs taught by Favor team members and external facilitators.

Community: Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), company-wide events, happy hours, and regular connection opportunities.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion: At Favor, we believe that to be the best delivery app in Texas, we need to represent all Texans. We are committed to growing a team with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and we are an equal opportunity employer. We review all resumes and qualifications with an open mind and encourage you to apply if this role interests you!

In addition, as a candidate, if you require any accommodations throughout the recruitment process, simply let your recruiter know! Our talent acquisition team will work with you directly to ensure a smooth and delightful process.