{"id":3361298,"url":"https://alion.io/job/radar-staff-ios-engineer","title":"Staff iOS Engineer","company":{"id":3777035,"name":"RADAR","domain":"goradar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/radar-7","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Mobile","role_family":"Mobile","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sunnyvale, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":172000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"gRPC","optional":false},{"name":"Kotlin Multiplatform","optional":false},{"name":"Swift","optional":false},{"name":"SwiftUI","optional":false},{"name":"UIKit","optional":false},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T19:59:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T17:29:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"ABOUT US\nE-commerce got real-time data infrastructure decades ago. Physical stores still have not. RADAR is changing that.\nRADAR is building the data infrastructure layer for the physical world, starting with retail. Our hardware-enabled SaaS platform uses proprietary overhead sensors, software, and AI-powered analytics to locate every product in a store, continuously, down to the fixture. We are deployed across 1,500+ stores with retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy, processing tens of billions of real-world events every day, delivering 99%+ accuracy in complex, noisy environments - at fleet scale.\nRADAR is one of the best-funded companies in retail technology, backed by a recent Series B financing at a $1 billion valuation. Inventory accuracy is only the beginning. We believe RADAR can become foundational infrastructure for the physical economy, powering new AI-driven commerce experiences across retail and beyond.\nJoin us if you want to work on a large, unsolved, technically challenging problem with an ambitious team building category-defining technology.\nOUR VALUES\nMission-Driven: We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.\nCollaborative Team: We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.\nHigh Impact: You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.\nClear Communication: We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue-everyone’s voice matters.\nBalanced Lives: We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.\nDiverse Perspectives: We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.\nEmpathy-Driven Design: We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.\nABOUT THE JOB\nWe’re looking for a Staff iOS Engineer to shape Radar’s mobile and cross-platform technical strategy and influence engineering direction well beyond the iOS team. We’re redesigning and rebuilding our mobile apps from the ground up, and you’ll be the technical leader shaping it. This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal management duties. You’ll lead through deep technical expertise, sound judgment, and influence. You’ll work with significant autonomy to set long-term architecture, drive innovation, and guide major cross-functional initiatives with product, design, Android, platform, and backend leaders. You’ll stay hands-on in the code while multiplying the impact of engineers across the organization.\nResponsibilities:\nDefine the multi-year mobile architecture and technical strategy.\nCo-lead cross-platform strategy, including shared code and Kotlin Multiplatform adoption, in partnership with Android and backend leaders.\nDrive innovation by finding new technical bets and platform capabilities that open up product opportunities.\nGuide major cross-functional initiatives across mobile, platform, and backend teams from concept to measurable outcome.\nStay hands-on: design and build the most complex, highest-leverage parts of the iOS codebase in Swift and SwiftUI.\nSet engineering standards for architecture, quality, performance, and reliability, and get them adopted across teams.\nMentor Staff and Senior engineers and help grow Radar’s next generation of technical leaders.\nHelp drive the technical vision and architecture as we rebuild Radar’s mobile apps, a rare chance to define the foundation of our next-generation product.\nPlan and drive the migration of existing customers from legacy apps to the new app, keeping the experience smooth and low-risk with minimal disruption.\nKeep supporting and improving Radar’s legacy products, balancing their stability and customer needs against investment in the new platform.\nABOUT YOU\nRequired:\nYou have extensive experience building and shipping iOS applications, including setting the technical direction for large-scale, widely used apps.\nYou have deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and Apple platform internals, including concurrency, performance, and memory management.\nYou have set technical strategy across multiple teams or an organization, with clear influence on product and business outcomes.\nYou have led major, multi-quarter initiatives across functions and delivered measurable results.\nYou are able to define your own priorities and problem space with little direction, and you work with a high degree of autonomy.\nYou are skilled at influencing without authority and can get senior engineers and leaders aligned on complex technical decisions.\nYou are an excellent communicator who explains complex tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\nYou are a proven mentor to senior engineers and a multiplier who raises the bar for everyone around you.\nYou are energized by ambiguity and high ownership in a fast-moving startup.\nPreferred:\nYou have worked as a Staff+ engineer, or in an equivalent technical leadership role, at a company through a period of significant scale.\nYou have led a major app rewrite or re-platforming and migrated existing users to it successfully.\nYou have hands-on experience with Kotlin Multiplatform or other cross-platform code-sharing approaches on iOS.\nYou have experience with modular app architecture, and build-system optimization \nYou have shipped features using newer Apple capabilities such as widgets, Live Activities etc.\nYou are passionate about design detail, accessibility, and delightful user experiences.\nYou have experience developing and shipping a configurable UI\nYou have experience building iOS apps on gRPC and Protocol Buffers, including API contract design, streaming, and network performance tuning.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nIn your first 30 days, you will:\nLearn Radar’s mission, technology stack and core values.\nComplete onboarding and security compliance training.\nMeet engineering, product, design, and leadership stakeholders to understand company priorities, and ship your first production change.\nIn your first 60 days, you will:\nGet familiar with Radar’s legacy apps: their architecture, customer usage, and technical debt.\nMake significant contributions to a feature in the rebuilt app.\nLead architecture and design reviews and begin mentoring Staff and Senior engineers.\nIn your first 90 days, you will:\nDeliver measurable progress on the rebuild, with core foundations in place and the team building on them.\nContribute to a new feature in the legacy app, keeping it valuable to customers.\nGet engineering standards and best practices adopted across multiple teams.\nBecome a go-to technical authority across Radar whose input shapes key product and engineering decisions.\nAt RADAR, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The expected base salary range for this position is$172,000 - $250,000 . Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training.You will also be eligible to receive other benefits including: equity, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, life and disability benefits, 401k plan, flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. \nResearch has shown that women & underrepresented minorities are more likely to read lists of requirements and consider themselves unqualified if they don't meet every single one. 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