GitHub · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
4+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their iOS team. In this role, you will enhance the developer experience by designing, prototyping, implementing, and supporting user-facing features for the GitHub iOS app, ensuring high performance and reliability for millions of users.
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Responsibilities
Pick up work autonomously and code solutions, working to unblock yourself when stuck either by reaching out for help or finding other solutions in an asynchronous, remote, distributed culture
Write clear documentation, tests, and recommendations for technical problems
Collaboratively define, scope, prioritize, and estimate work
Drive helpful conversations around technical issues and engineering practices, suggesting improvements and ideas as you see fit
Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback during code reviews
Triage, reproduce, and debug issues reported for our area of responsibility
Give and receive feedback to grow yourself and the team
Provide compassionate technical mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Deliver complex code/features with quality and supportability
Qualification
Required
6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
OR equivalent experience
4+ years of demonstrated proficiency in iOS app development, building and maintaining large-scale, highly scalable iOS applications in Swift, and experience developing modern iOS features using UIKit and/or SwiftUI
A deep understanding of mobile design patterns, including consistency, reliability, and performance at scale
Experience with participating in on-call rotations and Apple App Store deployments, including triaging production issues, conducting root cause analysis, and contributing to postmortems
Preferred
Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language) to streamline CI/CD pipelines and local development workflows
Deep expertise with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and iOS best practices
Experience supporting iOS accessibility frameworks and design patterns
Experience with Apollo GraphQL, including designing API models and implementing resolvers
Experience with federated GraphQL architectures and API design strategies
Familiarity with service health indicators (SLOs, SLIs), observability tooling, and data-driven decision making for prioritizing reliability improvements
Experience driving efforts to reduce incident volume and improve system resilience through proactive monitoring and alerting
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Company
GitHub
GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
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Chief Operating Officer
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