iOS Software Engineer, TikTok experience

You'll actively develop and upgrade UI libraries and components, ensuring exceptional design and performance. Empower product teams with premier tools, fostering efficient product development and iteration. Uphold exemplary standards and practices in UI design while building a vibrant community to tackle design challenges and share advanced techniques.

You will Explore innovative opportunities by experimenting with new technologies and platforms, devising strategic adaptation plans. Be at the forefront of pioneering designs and establishing new standards in human-machine interaction. Your expertise will drive our design excellence and elevate our products to new heights.

You will also have opportunities to solve intricate UI challenges, build variants of projects to improve existing UI components experience, and introduce industry leading new User Interface features. You will also have opportunities to build UI foundations and tools for engineers across TikTok.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and Maintain Shared UI Framework: Design, develop, optimize, and maintain a shared UI framework that provides unified UI components across multiple iOS applications.
- Enhance User Interface Components: Create and optimize UI components, transitions, interactions, and animations to ensure a seamless user experience.
- Collaborate with Cross-functional Teams: Work closely with design, product, and other engineering teams to implement and fine-tune user interface elements.
- Code Review and Best Practices: Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and uphold best practices to ensure high-quality code.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring that the UI framework is highly efficient and scalable.
- Documentation and Training: Document frameworks, guidelines, and best practices, and provide training and support to other team members.
- Stay Updated with Industry Trends: Keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies in iOS development, particularly in UI/UX, and apply this knowledge to continually improve the shared UI framework.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Proficient in Swift and Objective-C
- Strong understanding of iOS SDK, Xcode, and Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- Experience with iOS UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Knowledge of performance testing and optimization techniques

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with UIKit, SwiftUI, Auto Layout, Core Animation, and other iOS-specific frameworks for transitions and animations.
- Familiarity with Apple's design and UI testing frameworks such as XCTest.
- Experience with the latest iOS features and frameworks (e.g., Combine, ARKit, etc.).

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $118000 - $177000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.