iOS Engineer, LaunchDarkly
$141.9-210k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Restricted Stock Units
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$141.9-210k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about mobile observability, native mobile frameworks, and empowering engineering teams with real-time data, we’d love for you to join us!
- 5+ years of experience in native mobile development with expertise in one or more of:
- Android Java and Kotlin
- IOS Swift
- Proven experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing mobile SDKs and telemetry frameworks. Experience with real user monitoring in mobile applications is preferred
- Familiarity with mobile application observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry for mobile, Firebase Performance Monitoring, Datadog mobile). Familiarity with the LaunchDarkly product and SDKs is a plus
- Experience utilizing AI tooling to enhance mobile development efficiency
- Demonstrated ability to design and maintain APIs that deliver robust mobile experiences
- Strong grasp of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and mobile-specific performance optimization techniques
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Self-driven, curious about emerging technologies in mobile observability, and committed to continuous learning and improvement
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is looking for an experienced Mobile Engineer to join our Observability team, delivering best-in-class telemetry solutions tailored specifically for mobile applications
- Our mission is to redefine software release and reliability by automating end-to-end processes, measuring real-time impacts of feature rollouts, and simplifying incident diagnosis specifically on Android and iOS platforms
- From mobile-specific code-level tracing to user interaction insights, these signals form the backbone of safe, data-driven mobile application releases
- You’ll shape the foundation of how our customers understand and optimize their mobile feature deployments, building performant, reliable, and scalable systems
- Our work spans collecting raw telemetry directly from mobile applications, enriching data to deliver actionable insights, and exposing intuitive, real-time metrics and visualizations tailored for mobile experiences
- You’ll drive development of the mobile SDKs to provide granular code instrumentation and closely collaborate with product and UX teams to ensure our telemetry meets the unique needs of mobile developers, all while scaling our mobile data ingestion pipeline
- Develop and enhance native mobile SDKs (Android Java/Kotlin and/or iOS Swift / Objective-C) for telemetry ingestion including session replay (real user monitoring),logging, tracing and metrics
- Optimize mobile data pipelines to ensure high throughput and low latency telemetry reporting
- Drive mobile-focused features end-to-end: prototype, design APIs, develop robust SDKs, and validate their performance and reliability in production environments
- Collaborate closely on enhancements to mobile-specific OpenTelemetry SDK integrations, ensuring seamless and efficient signal emission
- Partner with product managers, UX designers, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, high-quality observability tools tailored for mobile engineers
- Actively mentor peers and foster best practices within the mobile development domain
- Participate in architecture, code, and specification reviews specifically aimed at maintaining quality and reliability of mobile observability tooling
- Contribute proactively to evolving our mobile engineering standards, processes, and tooling practices across LaunchDarkly
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
Share this job
View 16 more jobs at LaunchDarkly