Senior iOS Engineer

🏢 Soundcloud71 · 📍 Berlin

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We are looking for a senior/principal iOS Engineer to join the SoundCloud Mobile Core User Experience team, with a mission to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across iOS, Apple Watch, and CarPlay that connect millions of users with the music and artists they love. You’ll play a key role in shaping the SoundCloud mobile experience, helping users discover unique content and interact with the platform wherever they are.

This role offers a great opportunity to grow as an iOS engineer while shaping key parts of the SoundCloud experience across Apple platforms and making meaningful contributions to how users discover and connect with music.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain SoundCloud’s apps across Apple platforms (iOS, Apple Watch, CarPlay), delivering responsive, high-quality user experiences
Build and optimize UI components using SwiftUI, with a focus on performance, accessibility, and platform consistency
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including product, design, backend, and analytics—to define, build, and iterate on features
Support experimentation and data-driven product development by integrating A/B testing and tracking into mobile features
Embrace and utilize advanced AI tools to safely, securely, and responsibly accelerate your coding workflows, code reviews, and testing
Take part in architectural decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices to ensure maintainable, scalable mobile development

Background & Experience:

5+ years of professional experience building iOS applications using Swift, with strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, SwiftUI and Swift concurrency
Comfortable working in and improving large, existing codebases, including refactoring Objective-C and maintaining clean, maintainable code
Eager to learn new technologies, experiment, and continuously improve as an engineer
Skilled at working in cross-functional teams, proactive

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Soundcloud71 Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluators test creator economy monetization strategies, two-sided marketplace dynamics (artists vs. listeners), and algorithmic recommendation systems at scale.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Views the music industry purely through a major-label lens, ignoring the independent creator community.
2. Lacks tactical ideas for improving creator retention and monetization features.
3. Fails to grasp the technical challenges of handling massive audio streaming pipelines and low-latency delivery.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I scale two-sided audio marketplaces by aligning creator empowerment tools with data-driven fan discovery loops.

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