Senior iOS Engineer

The Company

Toters is an on-demand e-commerce and delivery platform that enables customers to get anything in their city with the highest level of convenience.

Technology is at the heart of everything we do. Our product and engineering teams work every day to build experiences that make customers’ lives easier while continuously improving internal systems to deliver faster and at the best cost.

If you’re excited about working in a high-growth startup environment and want to be part of a team shaping the future of how people shop in the Middle East, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the development and success of our mobile applications. You will have an outsized impact and ownership of the most visible and business-critical aspects of the Toters App. You will be responsible for turning product ideas into scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions while ensuring that the end-user experience is seamless and intuitive.

You will lead the technical delivery of complex initiatives, making architectural decisions within the iOS domain and driving execution from design to production. You will work closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-impact features that align with both product goals and long-term platform health.

In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our applications, proactively identifying risks, reducing technical debt, and improving engineering standards. As an integral team member, you will influence technical direction, contribute to roadmap planning, and help shape the future of Toters’ mobile platform.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate product requirements into scalable and well-designed mobile features.
• Design, develop, and maintain complex iOS features with a strong focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of multi-sprint initiatives, from architectural design and implementation through production release and post-launch monitoring.
• Make architectural decisions that improve modularization, maintainability, and long-term system reliability.
• Design and implement reusable, scalable components and patterns that improve development velocity across the mobile codebase.
• Optimize application performance to ensure fast and responsive user interactions, even under high-load scenarios.
• Implement robust security measures for data protection and compliance.
• Improve observability by defining monitoring standards, dashboards, alerts, and failure-handling strategies.
• Lead refactoring efforts that reduce technical debt and improve the maintainability of the codebase.
• Contribute to improvements in CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and testing practices to enable safe and efficient releases.
• Conduct rigorous testing and define quality standards for complex features.
• Integrate mobile apps with backend APIs in coordination with backend engineers, ensuring stable and well-defined interfaces.
• Identify risks early, propose mitigation strategies, and balance trade-offs between delivery speed and long-term maintainability.
• Participate in roadmap discussions by assessing technical feasibility, dependencies, and architectural impact.
• Act as a technical reference within the team, guiding design discussions and resolving complex engineering challenges.
• Participate in code reviews to uphold quality, provide coaching-level feedback, and elevate team standards.
• Support incident investigations and lead root-cause analysis when necessary to ensure durable fixes.
• Mentor and support other engineers to raise overall team capability and engineering excellence.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in iOS application development, with a strong proficiency in Swift, standard libraries, and iOS frameworks.
• Experience with SwiftUI, Apple's declarative UI framework for building iOS apps.
• Comprehensive understanding of the mobile development life cycle, including knowledge of industry trends, architectures, and emerging technologies.
• Proficiency in interactive application development paradigm, memory management, file I/O, network programming, concurrency, multithreading, and the process of publishing iOS apps on the App Store.
• Experience with app analytics and crash reporting tools like Firebase Analytics or Crashlytics.
• Strong expertise in design patterns relevant to iOS development.
• Exceptional debugging skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues efficiently.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality software products.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, suitable for formal and informal communication channels.
• Experience with Swift Concurrency, leveraging async/await, Task groups, actors, and structured concurrency to build thread-safe, maintainable, and high-performance asynchronous systems.

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Fastlane, or Bitrise.
• Experience optimizing mobile app performance, including memory management, caching strategies, and concurrency tuning.
• Experience with unit testing, snapshot testing, and UI testing frameworks.

• Strong experience with Git and modern code review workflows.
• Strong collaborative skills, both as an independent contributor and as part of a team.
• Experience with reactive programming frameworks such as Combine or RxSwift.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Why Toters?

• Flexible work environment with hybrid-friendly roles.
• Opportunity to lead impactful initiatives and shape technical strategy.
• Collaborate with talented engineers while growing your career.
• Strong culture of mentorship, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Direct impact on products used by thousands of customers every day.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Exclusive discounts on Toters orders.
• First-class medical insurance.