Sr iOS Developer

About the job

We seek to build the most ambitious iOS app ever created. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a rocket ship early at the seed stage backed by world-class investors and already proven by tens of thousands of users who rely on Hero every day.

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Hero is your AI Daily Assistant to manage your schedule, coordinate with others, and soon, run every part of your life from messaging to payments, ordering food, booking, and beyond. We're creating a new category of all-in-one AI-powered apps, combining beautiful UI with deep intelligence.

• TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/03/heros-all-in-one-ai-productivity-app-takes-on-googles-calendar-and-others/
• App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hero-assistant-run-your-day/id6443412722?utm_source=b&utm_medium=x&utm_campaign=l

Hero has already replaced 8 apps for our users and this is just the start. With a fast-growing user base, glowing reviews, and clear product-market pull, we’re building something that could define how people interact with technology every day.

We're looking for a senior iOS engineer who wants to build fast, elegant, and reliable mobile experiences and help shape one of the most ambitious products of this decade. You'll join a small, elite team and play a foundational role in crafting the next generation of intelligent assistants.

We’re a seed-stage startup backed by top investors including Forerunner, Neo, Abstract Ventures, the Chainsmokers, Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox founder and CTO), Ime Archibong (VP of FB Messenger), Max Mullen (co-founder Instacart), Scott Belsky (Chief Product Officer, Adobe) and more.

LOCATION:

SF Bay Area, in person (Burlingame)

SPECIFIC SKILLS

Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience building iOS applications
• 2+ years of professional experience delivering production apps using SwiftUI
• Proficient with Combine or similar reactive programming frameworks
• Skilled in using Swift concurrency features (e.g., async/await, Tasks)
• Familiarity with SQLite is a plus
• Strong grasp of software design patterns and system architecture best practices
• Excellent problem-solving ability, from optimizing user experience to integrating backend data
• Clear communicator capable of explaining technical concepts and trade-offs to non-technical team members
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Essential traits:

• Ambitious – Wants to build something great, and defaults to “why not” rather than the status quo. Gets excited about doing things that nobody has done before.
• Self-motivated – Have an internal drive to be great at what they do. This results in a high-trust team of empowered people that can continually grow, and accomplish more than far larger companies, with fewer meetings and processes.
• Hard-working – Expect to work hard (>50 hrs per week) on something that you will look back on and be incredibly proud of.
• Low ego, good person – While we are ambitious, we highly value low-ego, good people. We believe you can be direct, efficient, and build great things, while being viewed by everyone as part of ‘their dream team’. We want to create an environment where everyone is good at what they do, and enjoys coming to work.

 What this role offers:

• A ‘career-defining role’: We think this is a once in generation opportunity to define the next platform. We want to put you in the position to be referred to throughout your career as one of the greatest engineers in the industry.
• Work with a really talented team on something that will change millions of people’s lives.
• Significant equity, good salary, and medical and dental care.
• Whatever else you are interested in, we can figure out – We are committed to hiring the best and setting you up to love what you do every day.