Staff Engineer, iOS

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities.

Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations. Our latest ecosystem addition, Surprise for Fun™, brings our beloved feature set to mobile gaming – providing an exciting, high-dopamine way to win amazing real-life Surprises, VIP experiences, and unforgettable getaways just for completing fun daily quizzes and missions!

To deliver on our very lofty goals, we need engineers with industry-defining talent and an unrestrained drive to deliver flawless results. This role offers tremendous opportunities to build a highly scalable, highly stable, easily maintainable back-end architecture; push the boundaries of fault-tolerant programming, and work with a broad range of public and proprietary APIs.

What will you be doing?

• Making our product better, stronger, faster;
• Working with our API team to provide you with the APIs that you need;
• Working with our Design team to implement great UX on the mobile platform;
• Helping the Product organization figure out what to ship on mobile, and when;
• Keeping up to date on the latest features available in iOS, and deciding which ones to use to make your code wonderful;
• Shipping the best code you can, and helping other developers through code review and mentorship.

What are we looking for?

• 7 years of iOS development experience in Swift or Objective-C;
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs as your data source;
• Experience with automated unit and user story testing;
• A collaborative mindset with strong communication ability;
• A creative mind that can help us discover new ways to apply technology to the problems that we are solving.

What skills will come in handy?

• A background in Computer Science, or at least an understanding of algorithms;
• Enough of a front-end eye to implement the designs that you and the design team build;
• App store distribution and beta testing;
• Experience building for other Apple platforms (Watch, etc);
• Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
• Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
• High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
• Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.

Benefits

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
• Competitive salaries;
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
• Ultramodern offices in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Parus);
• Flexible working hours;
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
• Ability to travel to the US;
• Corporate activities and parties;
• Dedicated wellness area in the office;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• 15 days of paid sick leave;
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!