iOS Engineer at Maple Media

Maple Media is an innovative mobile media and technology company that acquires and operates category-leading apps that entertain, empower productivity, and enrich everyday life. We’re proud to boast a diverse portfolio of highly-rated, super-popular apps, (seriously—check out our ratings in the App Store and Google Play), which includes Editor’s Choice and Apple’s App of the Day apps and games like Pic Stitch, Player FM, Dialog, SwiftScan, Stocks+, We Heart It, WeekCal and more. 

Founded in 2017 by industry veterans from Google and Jam City and based in Los Angeles and Quebec, Maple Media is no run-of-the-mill startup. We’re backed by a $30M investment from Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm with a rich history of investing in media, entertainment, and communications. With our resources and ambitious, collaborative team, we are positioned for incredible growth and opportunity. 

We offer highly competitive compensation packages, full benefits, unlimited PTO, flexible hours for better work/life balance, amazing colleagues, and an opportunity to shape our future—and yours.

Maple Media is seeking a talented iOS engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable with Objective C and Swift. 

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead iOS development on many of our top-ranked apps and games on the App Store that reach more than 2M+ DAU and 40M MAU. Check out many of our apps at maplemedia.io.   

At Maple Media, you’ll work closely with our product, design, QA teams, and other engineers to meaningfully advance our existing products, including new apps that we acquire. You should be someone who is excited by the challenge of jumping into new codebases often, has a startup mindset, is always looking for new things to learn and takes pride in the products you build.

About our Engineering Team: Our engineering team consists of an average of 16 years worth of experience across the team. You will get the opportunity to work in a very unique development environment where engineers get to work independently while still being fully backed by a very seasoned and supportive engineering team. As a part of the team, you will have a front row seat in learning about and working alongside so many different mobile apps in many different genres. 

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality, readable, and reliable code for both current and future Maple Media iOS apps.

• Work on multiple apps, implementing various features and upgrades integrated various technologies including ad tech, analytics, notifications, debug tools, etc.

• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

• Conduct necessary tests before each release, continuously look for big and small ways to improve and optimize identity, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity across the team and in building our internal tools & platform.

• Work with our support and services teams to fix bugs, update documentation, develop custom SDK features, and troubleshoot challenging engineering problems.

• Perform code reviews for new apps and games we are considering acquiring.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent years of relevant work experience).

• 5+ years experience in iOS development on a production app or game with a 10K+ DAU and meaningful annual revenues.

• Strong programming experience in Objective-C and Swift.

• Familiarity with 3rd party iOS SDKs (Ad tech, analytics) and open source libraries for common tasks, including cloud messaging/push notifications.

• Strong knowledge of iOS SDKs, working across different versions of iOS, developing across iPhone and iPad screen sizes and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines.

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements. 

After the initial screening process with our recruiting team and the hiring manager, we’ll invite you to 2-3 interviews with other members of the engineering team, including your potential peers and senior management. This is an opportunity to get to know each other and identify if the role is aligned with your skillset and career goals. Typically, candidates we move forward with understand their career goals and have spent a few minutes reviewing our products and the caliber of our team on LinkedIn to get a sense of who we are and what we do. 

The interviews may be held remotely or in person, and include some behavioral and problem-solving questions. We may follow up with a take home assignment that lets you show off your skillset. This exercise doesn’t require any prior company specific knowledge, should take no more than a few hours to complete and is representative of the work we do every day. We also typically check 1-2 references from former managers to hear about your impact firsthand from someone you’ve worked with, especially to confirm fit with our culture and ability to drive impact in a fast paced startup environment. We also will make time for any and all questions you have about the role, your impact and trajectory, should you join our team.

 Maple Media is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

What we offer: 

Hybrid work environment: With a team spanning from Los Angeles to Quebec, and  dotted across the globe, we offer remote work options—along with hybrid options for team members who live in the Los Angeles area. 

Unlimited PTO: It’s important to take time to recharge. We understand that being relaxed, refreshed, and re-energized has positive effects on our minds and our work. 

Health & Wellness Benefits: Health is wealth! We are pleased to offer a full range of benefits to support your physical and mental health, including OneMedical, Talkspace, Teledoc & more.

401(k) with 3.5% match: We are excited to provide a meaningful benefit to help you invest in your future.

Spot bonuses & performance bonuses: It’s simple: we value your work and effort and believe it should be acknowledged and rewarded. 

Quarterly wellness & professional growth stipends: Team members can use at their discretion for anything wellness (gym membership, Peloton subscription, etc.) and professional growth-related. 

Real-time performance feedback and coaching: We value being lifelong learners. Teammates are given hands-on feedback along with constructive coaching–we are always cheering you on. 

Autonomy: Be the owner of your efforts. From day one you will be trusted to tackle your responsibilities independently and with real ownership. 

A fun & dynamic team atmosphere: You will be surrounded by some of the most knowledgeable and fun people in the industry! We have weekly & monthly remote and in-person events to help us connect on a personal level outside of work. 

Integrity: We aim for excellence in all that we do. We value trust, honesty and transparency across our flat organization.

Diversity: Let’s face it, all great minds don’t think alike. Our unique perspective shapes the diverse portfolio of products we design. 

Innovation: We’re in the business of pushing limits and writing new roles for the subscription app economy and we thrive off of big ideas.

Curiosity: We believe that curious minds fuel innovation. We iterate on the way we work–we care more about the why, not the how.

Team oriented mindset: We believe everyone brings their unique gifts and talents to the table to build an amazing, diverse team full of different skill sets. We believe in cheering each other on, being there for help without question and endless encouragement.