Senior iOS Software Engineer, Dropbox
Design Systems
CA$184.5-249.5k
+ Corporate bonus program & RSUs
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CA$184.5-249.5k
+ Corporate bonus program & RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of professional iOS development experience with proven contributions to shared UI libraries or design systems
- Strong proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit; familiarity with modern paradigms (Combine, Swift Concurrency, MVVM)
- Solid understanding of Apple HIG and accessibility (WCAG) standards
- Experience with design-to-code workflows (e.g., Figma tokens, variables, tooling integrations)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to align engineers and designers
- Track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, or automation for design system workflows
- Experience with the Android ecosystem also a plus
Desirable
- Experience scaling design systems in multi-platform environments (iOS, Android, Web)
- Working knowledge of Objective-C or additional mobile platforms
- Familiarity with performance optimization, UI testing, or analytics instrumentation
- Experience contributing to open-source design systems or developer tooling
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional initiatives
What the job involves
- As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Design System Team, you will play a central role in enabling consistent, scalable, and delightful product experiences across our native applications
- You will help define and evolve our design system foundations, ensuring engineers and designers can build with speed, quality, and cohesion
- In this role, you’ll gain exposure to senior leadership, influence design and engineering practices across teams, and contribute to the evolution of a system that empowers millions of users
- System foundations: Building reusable iOS components and frameworks that serve as the backbone of our product experience
- Collaboration & advocacy: Partnering with designers, Android peers, and product engineers to ensure multi-platform design system cohesion and adoption
- Scalability & innovation: Driving long-term architecture, accessibility, and performance standards that support product growth at scale
- Developer experience: Improving documentation, workflows, and tooling to make using the design system frictionless for engineers
- Build, maintain, and evolve Dropbox’s DIG design system iOS component library using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit
- Translate Figma designs and tokens into accurate, maintainable UI components
- Collaborate with cross-platform peers (Android, Web) to ensure consistency and parity
- Define and maintain versioning, governance, and release processes for design system components
- Improve internal documentation, onboarding, and tooling to accelerate adoption
- Provide support and advocacy across product teams via code reviews, pairing, and developer experience improvements
- Ensure design system components meet accessibility, performance, and testability standards
Our take
Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.
Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.
The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.4m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
- Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
- Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
- Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
- Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
- We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
- No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arash Ferdowsi
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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