Senior iOS Developer Experience Engineer - Platform

We are seeking a passionate Developer Experience Engineer to join our team, where we are dedicated to improving the productivity and efficiency of our development processes. Engineers in the Client Platform Studio work across various squads to ensure efficient, reliable, and scalable client development.

We're dedicated to improving the developer journey by eliminating friction and integrating tools in a seamless, cross-platform environment. Our mission is to empower developers to work efficiently and creatively, supported by rapid support and clear communication. We envision a world-class development environment that makes development fast, enjoyable, and effective.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to improve and streamline the developer experience.
• Research and understand different customer types, behaviours, and needs to inform product development.
• Contribute to the standardization and guidance of development workflows across various platforms.
• Participate in the development of a unified cross-platform experience to facilitate smoother transitions across technologies.
• Engage in continuous user research to gather insights and identify pain points.
• Implement "shift left" practices to provide early feedback in the development process.

Who You Are

• Passion for improving developer experience and willingness to work across multiple platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards learning and development.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Interest in standardising workflows and contributing to a unified development environment.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey insights and collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Care about the developer experience
• Experienced with Developer tooling
• Comfortable with the CLI
• Fundamental programming skills
• iOS expertise with additional experience on other platforms
• Experience working with build systems




To give you a taste of what our team is currently doing:

• Building a unified CLI tool for all developers at Spotify
• Migrating to and optimizing for a Monorepo and Bazel build environment
• Investigating building unified IDE environment across Android, iOS, Web, C++, and Backend

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.
• This role will ideally be located in the London UK, Stockholm Sweden, or potentially one of our other EMEA locations *excluding France for now due to on-call restrictions.