Design, develop, and implement new features for Littlebird, ensuring performance and security, while collaborating closely with research and development leads.
We're seeking a Swift Engineer to join our growing team to design, develop, and implement new features for Littlebird, our AI teammate for Mac and Android (Windows soon!). We’re building personal AI; a thought partner that connects dots in your work and helps you think. We're a small, global, async-first team that values craft and ownership.
Littlebird is remote-first; we speak a few languages, love to collaborate, and like to build things that we enjoy using. Check out the recent TechCrunch news on our $11M seed funding and what users are saying about the product.
- Work closely with R&D leads to design scalable architecture
- Prove out AI feature ideas, iterate on them and integrate them into the product when they're ready for prime time
- Build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy, security and scale
- Contribute to new voice and transcriptions features
- Build and own features that will produce value for our customers
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on software development experience with at least a few years focus on Swift or Objective-C.
- Proven ability to build complex, responsive user interfaces in MacOS, iOS and/or Android
- Comfortable handling concurrency, multi-threaded programming, and performance tuning in complex systems.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks—from slow rendering times to memory management issues. Familiarity with profiling tools (e.g., Chrome DevTools, Instruments, Lighthouse).
- Proficiency in using modern build and development tools like Webpack, Babel, Git, CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with macOS development tools and data persistence frameworks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired Experience
- Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase
- Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans
- Experience with assistive technologies like screen readers and voice recognition software
- Proficiency in Rust and/or python
- Remote-friendly work environment
- Collaborative team culture
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
- Competitive compensation packages including stock and health/dental/vision/life benefits, paid time off, 401k, and parental leave
- Flexible working hours across multiple time zones
Top Skills
Android
Babel
Chrome Devtools
Ci/Cd
Git
Instruments
iOS
Lighthouse
macOS
Objective-C
Swift
Webpack
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