Founding iOS Developer

iOS Developer (Founding) — Venice Beach CA, Hybrid

About us

Our partner is a repeat-founder team building a consumer social + health product.

Tagline

Healthmaxxing With Friends. Alpha users love it, and we are ready to hire our first founding full-stack engineer.

The role

Own the iOS app end to end. Design the architecture, ship delightful UI, and make the app feel fast, reliable, and social. Partner closely with backend to shape APIs, real-time interactions, and data flows. This is staff level and up with real product and design influence.

What you’ll do

• Build and ship Swift and SwiftUI features that drive daily habit and retention
• Shape app architecture, navigation, state, modularization, and offline behavior
• Integrate HealthKit, Apple Watch, notifications, background tasks, and app extensions
• Partner with backend on real-time feeds, push, WebSockets or SSE, and API design

You might be a fit if you have

• 3–10+ years building consumer iOS apps users love, from prototype to App Store
• Deep Swift and SwiftUI, async/await, Combine, and app architecture patterns (MVVM or Redux-style)
• Experience with HealthKit or similar device integrations, push, deeplinks, and permissions
• Strong product taste, accessibility awareness, and a habit of measuring outcomes
• Comfort in small, fast teams where you own decisions and ship weekly

Nice to have

• WatchKit or watchOS complications
• AVFoundation or short-video capture and playback
• Security and privacy for health-adjacent data

Location and setup

Hybrid in Venice Beach. West Coast preferred. Relocation supported within 6–12 months. Competitive comp with strong equity.

How to apply

Send a short note and links to GitHub or shipped work to jobs@vamotalent.com.

Bonus

Include one example of a performance or reliability win you are proud of!