Senior/Lead iOS Engineer - NYC

About Medal

Medal is where millions of gamers capture, share, and relive their best moments. We’re building the next generation of gaming communities — social, monetized, and creator-powered. Our mission is to connect brands and players in authentic, high-impact ways.

Your mission will be to work on and around products that make sharing, discovering, and connecting around gaming moments seamless and fun. You’ll work closely with engineers, researchers, and product leads to define the user experience of the Medal platform and shape how gamers express themselves and engage with one another.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior/Lead iOS Engineer to take our mobile app to the next level. You’ll work alongside a small, talented group of engineers and designers to craft the Medal experience on iOS—from real-time editing tools to content discovery and notifications. You’ll help shape our mobile architecture, influence product direction, and work on experiences that are seen by millions of gamers.

If you love shipping polished mobile experiences, obsess over user interaction, and want to work on a product that lives at the intersection of social and gaming, this is for you.

You Will

• Own major parts of the iOS codebase and contribute to architecture decisions

• Build features used by millions of gamers, from sharing workflows to profile pages and chat

• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, backend, and product to ship fast without sacrificing quality

• Advocate for user experience, performance, and accessibility

• Help mentor junior engineers and uphold a high bar for code quality and engineering culture

• Stay on top of iOS best practices and help us keep the tech stack modern and efficient

• Work on-site at our NYC office 5 days a week

You Need

• 5+ years of experience shipping iOS apps

• Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and Foundation knowledge

• Swift Concurrency and Reactive programming experience

• Experience working on complex real-time apps, video/media-heavy workflows, or social applications

• Obsession with quality of code and interfaces

• Interest in product and taking ownership of broad product areas (likes to run experiments, talk to users, and use the product avidly)

• Practiced at using analytics, testing, user feedback, bug, and crash reports to inform app development

• Experience using REST APIs and working with backend teams to accomplish product goals

• A love for gaming, however you define it!

• You read and write well and can communicate and collaborate both synchronously and asynchronously

Bonus Points

• Can develop on both Android and iOS

• History as a Medal user – if so, be sure to share a clip or your profile below

• Experience with other Apple technologies - Objective-C, iPadOS, macOS, etc.

• Experience working with video on mobile (performance, encoding, AVFoundation etc.) a plus

• Maintenance of CI systems – Xcode Cloud is a plus

iOS Stack

• Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Xcode Cloud, Postman, Figma, Linear

Why Join Us

At Medal, you’ll have the autonomy to make an impact from Day 1. You’ll join a team that values humility, curiosity, and momentum—and you’ll help shape the future of how gamers share and connect around the moments that matter most.