Senior iOS Engineer

About the role

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We are looking for a senior/principal iOS Engineer to join the SoundCloud Mobile Core User Experience team, with a mission to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across iOS, Apple Watch, and CarPlay that connect millions of users with the music and artists they love. You’ll play a key role in shaping the SoundCloud mobile experience, helping users discover unique content and interact with the platform wherever they are.

This role offers a great opportunity to grow as an iOS engineer while shaping key parts of the SoundCloud experience across Apple platforms and making meaningful contributions to how users discover and connect with music.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain SoundCloud’s apps across Apple platforms (iOS, Apple Watch, CarPlay), delivering responsive, high-quality user experiences

- Build and optimize UI components using SwiftUI, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and platform consistency

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including product, design, backend, and analytics—to define, build, and iterate on features

- Support experimentation and data-driven product development by integrating A/B testing and tracking into mobile features

- Embrace and utilize advanced AI tools to safely, securely, and responsibly accelerate your coding workflows, code reviews, and testing

- Take part in architectural decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices to ensure maintainable, scalable mobile development

Background & Experience:

- 5+ years of professional experience building iOS applications using Swift, with strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, SwiftUI and Swift concurrency

- Comfortable working in and improving large, existing codebases, including refactoring Objective-C and maintaining clean, maintainable code

- Eager to learn new technologies, experiment, and continuously improve as an engineer

- Skilled at working in cross-functional teams, proactively communicating, and breaking down complex problems into simple, elegant solutions

- Thrives in a collaborative, agile environment, while also capable of working independently and taking initiative

- Passionate about music, mobile development, and building intuitive, high-impact experiences for millions of users

- Previous experience with AVFoundation is a plus

About us:

- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)

- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home