Senior iOS Engineer

Applause is a profitable, well-capitalized operator of consumer subscription apps across privacy, security, health, productivity, and accessibility. The model is simple: acquire high-retention, category-leading apps and scale them. The portfolio includes PicSafe, Nomorobo, Meditation Moments, Strongbox, and Voice Dream.

The apps already have top 1% retention, strong brands, and high organic traffic, so paid growth compounds on proven products instead of propping up weak ones. There is real budget behind growth that works.

The company has raised $100M+ across debt and equity and runs remote-first with ~40 people worldwide (roughly 40% US, 50% Europe, 10% elsewhere). It is now building its growth function from the ground up.

This is execution role in paid user acquisition. The primary mandate is to plan, launch, and optimize paid campaigns that drive installs and new subscription revenue across the portfolio — starting with one to two apps and expanding as you prove results.
 

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across multiple iOS applications.
• Develop with Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
• Design scalable technical solutions for complex product challenges.
• Improve architecture, performance, accessibility and reliability.
• Build shared infrastructure including analytics, feature flags, subscriptions and release tooling.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering.

Requirements

• Strong production experience building iOS applications.
• Excellent Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit knowledge.
• Ability to maintain existing Objective-C code.
• Expertise in at least one advanced Apple framework or domain (HealthKit, accessibility, audio, speech, background processing, sync, offline architecture, etc.).
• Experience with multiple Apple frameworks.
• Understanding of accessibility, offline synchronization and analytics infrastructure.
• Experience with subscription platforms such as RevenueCat or Superwall.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• CI/CD and release automation.
• Internal frameworks or SDK development.
• Audio or speech technologies.
• Open-source contributions or successful side projects.
• Experience in consumer subscription products or mobile gaming.

What Offered

• Fully remote (daily team meeting at 4:00 PM CEST (3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM ET)
• Full-time role (part-time from 3 days/week considered for exceptional candidates).
• High ownership and technical autonomy.
• Work across multiple successful consumer apps.
• Flexible PTO (approximately 2 weeks) and paid sick leave.
• Direct influence on engineering standards across the entire product portfolio