Principal Software Engineer-iOS (Foundations)

We are looking for a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer-iOS (Foundations) (all genders) with a strong focus on platform development, to join our Pandora Foundations Tribe. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of our IOS platform infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, modular, and built for extensibility. 

You will have a significant impact on how we build and deliver mobile applications. Equally important is your ability to empower and enable your colleagues to grow in their roles. You will be a role model in introducing change, demonstrating that challenging objectives can be achieved. By rallying and inspiring other engineers, you will help drive innovation and ensure that together we accomplish even the most demanding projects.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with the IOS ecosystem, a deep understanding of the platform, is comfortable working with CI/CD pipelines and a passion for building efficient, reusable components. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure a consistent, high-quality experience across multiple IOS applications and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architecture, development, and implementation of IOS components, ensuring they are modular, maintainable, and aligned with the long-term vision of the organization.

• Reusable Component Development: Design and implement scalable libraries, SDKs, and shared modules to be used across various IOS applications. Establish best practices for creating reusable components that promote code consistency and maintainability.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with various product, UX, and mobile teams to understand product requirements and ensure platform capabilities can support both current and future needs.

• Performance & Optimization: Lead the efforts in performance monitoring and optimization at the platform level, ensuring smooth operation across a wide range of devices. Identify and fix system-wide issues related to memory management, threading, and other core components.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure that the platform adheres to security best practices and is compliant with industry standards. Integrate security features and protections directly into the platform layer to safeguard apps from vulnerabilities.

• Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the IOS engineering teams, helping to mentor staff, senior and mid-level engineers. Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, always raising our technical bar.

• Research & Innovation: Stay up-to-date on the latest IOS platform developments and contribute to long-term innovation by bringing cutting-edge technology and platform-level advancements to the team.

• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in IOS development with a focus on platform-level work, including CI/CD, frameworks, or system-level components. At least 2-3 years in a technical leadership role.

• Proficiency: Strong expertise in Swift with a deep understanding of IOS internal architecture and its API’s.

• Platform Expertise: Extensive experience with IOS frameworks and platform APIs. In-depth understanding of low-level IOS features like memory management, app lifecycle, and background services.

• Architecture: Proficiency in mobile architecture, especially related to modular design, multi-module projects, and system abstraction. Experience with patterns like VIPER, MVP and MVVM.

• Tooling & CI/CD: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for IOS platform development, including automated testing, build automation, and deployment workflows.

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams of engineers, providing technical direction and driving best practices. Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with product and design teams.

• Business awareness: Ability to align engineering strategies with overall company objectives striking a healthy balance between quality and speed always aiming for impact.

Nice-to-have:

• Performance Engineering: Experience with performance profiling, debugging tools, and optimization techniques. Expertise in multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management at the platform level.

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.