Lead tvOS Engineer

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Our Customer is a video technology company powering the next generation of personalized, interactive experiences across web, mobile, and connected TVs. Our platform enables broadcasters, sports leagues, streamers, and major brands to deliver rich, engaging video products—faster, with fewer resources, and without writing code.

They work with category leaders like ESPN, Fortnite, and SoundCloud to build innovative direct-to-consumer experiences that combine interactivity, commerce, data, and automation.
From interactive sports broadcasts to shoppable livestreams and dynamic overlays,we help customers unlock new revenue models and deeper audience engagement.

With strategic partnerships across the media and sports ecosystem - including groundbreaking work in connected TV SDKs and commerce integrations - they are shaping the future of
interactive video. We're profitable, growing, and entering a defining moment as more companies seek scalable solutions to build differentiated video experiences.

Overview
We’re seeking a Lead tvOS Engineer to join our growing team. Our Customer is expanding its capabilities to more devices and we are looking for someone who has knowledge and experience in thinking through how components can be built that are flexible between TV,
phone, tablet, desktop app, and even Vision Pro. We already have a robust set of backend microservices and need someone who can think clearly about building flexible front ends and implementing the right architecture moving forward. This resource should be skilled in
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and tvOS development in general. This engineer will own technical design for projects of moderate complexity and play a key role in leading and developing captivating
applications for TV, phones and tablets using Swift.

What You’ll Do:
● Architect, develop and maintain high-quality tvOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI
● Manage the tvOS development life-cycle from concept to App Store release and beyond.
● Work closely with the product and design teams, ensuring partnership and on-time
feature development.
● Implement Figma designs to specification
● Build custom components within an SDK
● Troubleshoot, debug, and update existing systems for smooth app operations.
● Actively engage in on-call responsibilities and contribute to incident management efforts.
● Lead the integration and management of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
● Mentor and support a team of tvOS engineers through code reviews, architectural
decisions, and ongoing knowledge sharing.
● Drive sprint planning, technical estimation, and continuous delivery processes within an
Agile environment.


What You Bring
● 5+ years experience in commercial tvOS development
● Proficiency in Swift and modern tvOS APIs, as well as experience using Apple development tools (Xcode, Instruments, etc)
● Prior experience working in a multi-developer tvOS development environment, including managing AppStore build creation, submission and deployment. Experience with managing or evangelizing platform-specific CI/build infrastructure & tooling within an organization would be highly desirable.
● Prior experience building extensible, data driven tvOS software. Demonstrated proficiency integrating with HTTP & Socket data APIs using one or more of the following:
REST, JSON-RPC, gRPC, etc.
● Experience with AVKit or AVFoundation for media playback, including handling video/audio streaming, buffering, and custom playback controls.
● Experience with writing and running unit tests using XCTest and XCUITest for tvOS apps
● Knowledge in optimizing app performance, especially around media streaming, UI rendering, and memory usage, to provide a smooth experience on tvOS devices.
● Knowledge of implementing focus-based navigation and ensuring smooth transitions using focus engine and TV remote interactions
● Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating with teams.
● Understanding of the importance of alerting, monitoring, code coverage, and integration testing.
● Familiarity with the current mobile landscape and keeping up-to-date with the current trends, emerging technology, best practices, and modern development approaches