Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build a world-class platform for our customers by solving complex technical problems and building systems which run at scale. You will play a critical role in developing code, and solve problems independently while shaping our next-gen solutions that drive our company's mission forward. We seek candidates with a passion for crafting elegant code and building innovative software solutions.

Key responsibilities:

Feature Development: Design and implement new features related to media playback, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Architecture & Quality: Build performant and resilient applications and frameworks, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to core platform improvements and scalability.

Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, backend engineers, and QA to define, design, and ship high-impact features.

Performance Optimization: Optimize app performance metrics, reduce crash rates, manage memory effectively, and ensure efficient, reliable code.

Troubleshooting: Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues encountered across various Apple platforms in a production environment.

Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, participate in code reviews, and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Deep Expertise in iOS Development: Extensive experience building and scaling complex iOS applications using Swift (and sometimes Objective-C), with a strong grasp of UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, and concurrency.
• Media Playback Knowledge: Experience with streaming technologies, protocols like HLS, DASH, and AVKit frameworks is highly valued.
• Technical Fundamentals: A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented programming, and various architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER).
• Tools & Processes: Proficiency with unit testing frameworks, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems, Git, and agile methodologies.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in ambiguity and find solutions that balance technical and design constraints.

Preferred education and experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of iOS dev (Swift).

Benefits

What you get

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.

Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:

Here’s a quick glimpse of Proximity and what it’s like to be a Proxonaut:

• Visit to listen to what our CEO, , has to say about Proximity.
• Meet some of our Proxonauts here:
• Here are some quick links to the , , and (our design wing).

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