Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior iOS Engineer designs and builds high‑performance mobile trading interfaces that handle real‑time market data and complex order flows for professional crypto investors. The role uses Swift and modern iOS frameworks to create scalable, low‑latency architectures with performance optimizations, observability, and comprehensive testing. Key responsibilities include implementing responsive charting, ensuring reliability of spot and futures trading features, and improving release stability for core crypto workflows. The engineer partners with product, design, backend, and data teams, leads technical planning and design reviews, and mentors iOS developers while shaping engineering standards.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Design and implement scalable iOS application architecture that supports advanced crypto trading experiences used by Robinhood's most active investors
- Partner with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and data teams to deliver fast, reliable, and intuitive pro-grade trading tools on mobile
- Improve application performance, real-time data handling, observability, and release stability across core crypto trading workflows
- Lead technical planning and provide guidance during system design reviews, implementation discussions, and incident resolution efforts for high-stakes trading features
- Mentor iOS engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, and structured development support while contributing to engineering standards and documentation
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of professional experience developing iOS applications
- Extensive experience building and maintaining large-scale iOS applications using Swift and modern iOS development frameworks
- Experience designing mobile systems with clear architecture patterns, scalable component design, and maintainable testing strategies — particularly for data-intensive or real-time use cases
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, backend, and infrastructure partners to deliver customer-focused technical solutions
- Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform improvements
- Experience working on financial platforms, trading systems, or real-time market data products (preferred)
- Clear communication skills and ability to translate complex trading concepts into intuitive mobile experiences
- This position is restricted to US citizens or lawful permanent residents
- In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week
- Location: New York, NY