Ambient
Senior iOS Developer
Job Summary
The role involves leading the development and maintenance of native iOS applications, focusing on delivering an intuitive user experience for residents controlling smart home devices. The candidate will collaborate across product, design, and backend teams to define APIs, enhance app performance, and ensure scalable solutions. Experience with Android development and familiarity with smart home hardware protocols are also valued. The position requires a strong background in mobile engineering, architecture, and cross-platform contributions to shape a robust mobile platform that integrates smart technology into multifamily communities.
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About the Company
Ambient combines a decade of operational experience with design and engineering prowess to improve apartment living and management in the most impactful, cost-effective way possible.
The name "Ambient" embodies our vision to create a category-defining platform that seamlessly integrates smart technology into the built environment and transforms the way people live, visit, and work in multifamily communities. Our focus is on increasing the value of multifamily properties by making them more efficient to operate and more comfortable to live in.
Overview
We’re looking for a Senior or Staff iOS Engineer to take a leading role in shaping the mobile experience for our residents. Our iOS app is the primary interface residents use to control smart devices in their units — lights, locks, thermostats, and more — giving this role a direct and substantial impact on how people live in Ambient-powered communities.
You’ll own core parts of the iOS codebase and help define our mobile architecture as the platform evolves. While iOS will be your primary focus, we value engineers who can flex across platforms when needed — including occasional contributions to Android for cross-platform alignment.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong product instincts. We’re looking for a strategic thinker and creative problem solver — someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, collaborates well across disciplines, and consistently pushes for elegant, scalable solutions. You’ll work closely with design, product, and backend teams to bring new features to life and continuously improve the quality, performance, and reliability of our mobile platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core features of our iOS applications, with occasional contributions to our Android app
- Collaborate with product and design to shape intuitive and thoughtful user experiences
- Drive coordination with backend teams to define APIs, manage data contracts, and ensure seamless end-to-end feature delivery
- Improve and evolve our mobile engineering practices — including build systems, testing, code quality, and release processes
- Define mobile architecture, observability, and security standards to support performance, scale, and device integrations, including development of SDKs for partner integrations
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews, technical design sessions, and pairing
- Champion clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the mobile stack
Qualifications
- 8-12 years of experience building and maintaining native iOS applications, including 2+ years operating at a senior or staff level
- Strong proficiency in Swift and deep familiarity with iOS fundamentals, including UIKit, SwiftUI and MVVM architecture
- Comfortable working in Kotlin and contributing to Android codebases when needed
- Strong grasp of mobile engineering best practices, including modularization, performance optimization, CI/CD, and app observability
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to define APIs, shape user experiences, and deliver high-quality mobile features
- Familiarity with mobile design systems, custom UI components, and responsive layouts
- Working knowledge of RESTful APIs and common integration patterns
- A bias for execution, the ability to work independently, and a track record of driving projects from design to delivery
- A deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals
- Ability to quickly iterate without compromising on quality
- Nice-to-have: Experience integrating with smart home devices or hardware protocols (e.g., BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave)
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Ambient Property Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
A note to recruitment agencies: Please don’t reach out to Ambient employees or leaders about our roles -- we’ve got recruiting covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.
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