Senior/Lead iOS Engineer
About Medal
Medal is the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and relive their best moments. Every year, our players record billions of clips, each representing a unique, action-packed highlight. We’re building the next generation of gaming communities — social, monetized, and creator-powered. Our mission is to design products that make sharing, discovering, and connecting around gaming moments seamless and fun.
We raised a seed round of $133M from General Catalyst and Khosla to discover the next generation of intelligence.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior/Lead iOS Engineer to take our mobile app to the next level. You’ll work alongside a small, talented group of engineers and designers to craft the Medal experience on iOS—from real-time editing tools to content discovery and notifications. You’ll help shape our mobile architecture, influence product direction, and work on experiences that are seen by millions of gamers.
If you love shipping polished mobile experiences, obsess over user interaction, and want to work on a product that lives at the intersection of social and gaming, this is for you.
You Will
Own major parts of the iOS codebase and contribute to architecture decisions
Build features used by millions of gamers, from sharing workflows to profile pages and chat
Collaborate cross-functionally with design, backend, and product to ship fast without sacrificing quality
Advocate for user experience, performance, and accessibility
Help mentor junior engineers and uphold a high bar for code quality and engineering culture
Stay on top of iOS best practices and help us keep the tech stack modern and efficient
Work on-site at our NYC office 5 days a week
You Need
5+ years of experience shipping iOS apps
Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and Foundation knowledge
Swift Concurrency and Reactive programming experience
Experience working on complex real-time apps, video/media-heavy workflows, or social applications
Obsession with quality of code and interfaces
Interest in product and taking ownership of broad product areas (likes to run experiments, talk to users, and use the product avidly)
Practiced at using analytics, testing, user feedback, bug, and crash reports to inform app development
Experience using REST APIs and working with backend teams to accomplish product goals
A love for gaming, however you define it!
You read and write well and can communicate and collaborate both synchronously and asynchronously
Bonus Points
Can develop on both Android and iOS
History as a Medal user – if so, be sure to share a clip or your profile below
Experience with other Apple technologies - Objective-C, iPadOS, macOS, etc.
Experience working with video on mobile (performance, encoding, AVFoundation etc.) a plus
Maintenance of CI systems – Xcode Cloud is a plus
iOS Stack
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Xcode Cloud, Postman, Figma, Linear
Benefits
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision insurance
401k
Why Join Us
At Medal, you’ll have the autonomy to make an impact from Day 1. You’ll join a team that values humility, curiosity, and momentum—and you’ll help shape the future of how gamers share and connect around the moments that matter most.