USD per year
Staff Mobile Engineer, iOS
Location:
- Remote US
- Remote Canada
Company Info: MZLA Technologies Corporation (MZLA) is a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird is an open-source email and productivity platform used by over 20 million people worldwide. MZLA operates independently from Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation. Team: 50+ people distributed across seven countries. Mission: Build open-source, privacy-respecting productivity tools independent of big tech ecosystems. Revenue Model: Community donations plus subscriptions for cloud-based services. Website: www.thunderbird.net
The Opportunity:
The Staff Software Engineer, Mobile is a senior individual contributor who brings deep iOS expertise to the design, development, and evolution of Thunderbird’s iOS application. This role works on complex and ambiguous technical problems, leads significant mobile initiatives, and contributes to architectural decisions in collaboration with other senior engineers and engineering leadership. You’ll work closely with mobile engineers, product management, UX, and other partners to deliver high-quality iOS experiences that meet high standards for performance, reliability, accessibility, security, and maintainability. The ideal candidate demonstrates deep mobile expertise, collaboration with engineering leadership and peers, ownership of technical decisions, and the ability to influence, mentor, and guide the work of other engineers. You’ll play a critical role in delivering exceptional user experiences by translating strategy into action and ensuring technical decisions align with MZLA’s mission and the objectives of the Thunderbird Project. This is a full-time, remote position working with colleagues across multiple regions and time zones.
What you’ll do:
- Tackle complex and ambiguous technical challenges in mobile development that require thoughtful design, planning, and coordination.
- Serve as a technical lead on major iOS initiatives, including feature development, architectural improvements, and targeted refactoring.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and engineering leadership on mobile technical direction and architectural decisions.
- Drive improvements to code quality by reducing technical debt and improving performance, stability, and build health.
- Partner closely with product and UX teams to ensure usability and accessibility are integral to iOS implementations.
- Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable iOS code, contributing to a consistent and reliable codebase.
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, technical guidance,...
Mozilla is a global community-driven organization working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it. They advocate for better products, hold governments and tech corporations accountable, campaign for privacy and open internet policies, build user-centric products like Firefox, and invest in technology including AI efforts.
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