Senior Mobile Platform Engineer, Gousto
iOS
1+ day a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Be an early applicant
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to make the food in our boxes more sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- To be successful in this role, you will be motivated by improving the productivity of our iOS engineers using a variety of technologies, both in the app codebase itself and the tooling around it
- Familiarity with Fastlane and Danger
- Familiarity with Xcode project configuration and Swift Package Manager
- Familiarity with App Store submission and code signing
- Maintaining continuous integration environments
- Working with a design system
- Familiarity with Shell scripting and Ruby
- Familiarity with cloud services such as AWS
- Deep understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
- Familiar with Firebase A/B testing, remote configuration, and push notifications
- Good listener, open and empathetic to other people’s ideas
- Cooperative and likes to share their thoughts
- Works in a collaborative ways with others
- Self starter who enjoys solving complex problems with new technologies
- Proactive, taking goals and coordinating towards delivering value
- Good understanding of system's architecture, design patterns and testing strategies
- Enjoys working with multiple languages and toolchains, such as Swift, Ruby and Bash
- Maintains a high quality code base through architecture, automated testing and documentation
- Has a preference for solving problems for engineers rather than customers
What the job involves
- Our Foundations Tribe is responsible for improving the developer experience of Product Engineers at Gousto - it is where we build, maintain and innovate on the core aspects of the tech stack
- As an iOS Foundations engineer, you'll report to an Engineering Manager and work on both the core of our iOS app and the tools that support it, enabling iOS Product Engineers to deliver value faster
- Our iOS app is modularised with each feature team having ownership of their feature modules allowing them to iterate and develop quickly
- We build features fully in Swift, using both SwiftUI and UIKit, targeting the 2 latest major versions of iOS, and look to adopt the latest tools and technologies from Apple where appropriate, while minimising dependencies on third-party code
- We use continuous integration and ship a new version of the app to the App Store every two weeks. Our customised Mobile CI runs on AWS infrastructure and makes heavy use of Fastlane, Danger, and scripts written in Ruby and Swift
- Working on both, the core of our apps as well as tooling, allowing product engineers to deliver value faster and the capability to scale
- Support other engineers to learn and grow through coaching and mentoring
- Apply lean methodologies to improve Gousto's processes
- Evolve our software through an iterative approach focusing on delivering impact
- Contribute to our iOS Guild, helping us improve our ways of working and our codebase
- Scaling our Mobile CI Infrastructure to provide quick feedback to engineers
- Good debugging skills with the ability to systematically identify and resolve problems
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of The UK Plastics Pact, which aims for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic by 2025. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge recent investments, the now unicorn company is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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42% female employees
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"The energy at Gousto is infectious! There's always a way to get involved in the things you're most passionate about. Everyone is so enthusiastic..."
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$65.6m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $372.5m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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