Role overview

Staff iOS Engineer, Neighborhoods

Requirements and responsibilities

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You Will

  • Lead strategic, cross-organizational mobile workstreams within a company-level initiative to redefine local commerce and connect the Square and Cash App ecosystems
  • Drive cross-organizational architecture and execution with teams across Square and Cash App to deliver seamless integration of Neighborhoods loyalty, marketing, and ordering features in Cash App running on Square’s platform
  • Guide the architecture of mobile systems that connect customer discovery in Cash App with seller ordering and fulfillment workflows in Square Point of Sale
  • Stay hands-on in iOS development using SwiftUI, Workflow, and related technologies across the Square Point of Sale and Cash App codebases, making architectural tradeoffs that keep mobile experiences reliable, scalable, and polished
  • Partner with backend, web, and Android engineers to ship features with a focus on quality and craft, while mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across the team and partner teams
  • Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to define product scope, sequence ambiguous cross-team work, and make clear technical and product tradeoffs

You Will

  • Use AI tools as a native part of feature development: exploring unfamiliar codebases, prototyping product ideas, accelerating implementation, generating tests, improving observability, and tightening documentation
  • Identify, teach, and scale practical AI-assisted workflows for product engineering, especially in cross-codebase feature work, migration, debugging, QA, experimentation, and rapid iteration
  • Apply strong judgment around AI-generated work: verify behavior, protect customer trust, preserve maintainability, and use AI to raise the team’s technical bar
  • Model how a staff engineer uses AI to multiply impact without losing product taste, architectural ownership, or accountability for the systems we ship

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of relevant experience with iOS engineering design and implementation, including deep Swift and Objective-C experience
  • Experience guiding iOS architecture with organizational impact, including unidirectional data flow, declarative UI frameworks, and scalable mobile patterns
  • Experience leading strategic, complex mobile product or platform initiatives with organizational impact, from ambiguous problem framing through delivery, including applying AI tools thoughtfully to improve engineering speed, quality, and learning
  • Proven ability to drive collaboration across team, organizational, and discipline boundaries to deliver remarkable solutions to customers
  • Track record shaping organizational technical direction, rallying teams around long-term architecture and product strategy, and mentoring engineers to expand their scope and impact

Technologies We Use and Teach

  • SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine
  • Protocol Buffers
  • Bazel for our build environment
  • AI tools including Cursor, Claude Code, Goose
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