$180K – $275KSeniorFull Time
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.
We're looking for a Senior/Lead iOS Engineer to take our mobile app to the next level. You'll join a small, talented team of engineers and designers to craft the Medal experience on iOS: from real-time recording and clipping to social feeds, content discovery, and chat. You'll help shape our mobile architecture, influence product direction, and ship experiences seen by millions of gamers.
We move fast! An idea pitched on Monday can be in users' hands two or three weeks later. Ex: Stickers went from concept to launch in that window, and that's the rhythm we want to keep. If you love shipping polished mobile experiences, are obsessed with performance and user interaction, and want to work on a product that lives at the intersection of social and gaming, this is for you.
Own major parts of the iOS codebase and contribute to architecture decisions
Build and optimize video-heavy features used by millions of gamers, including recording, clipping, playback, and the social feed
Tackle ongoing performance work: reducing stutter, improving frame rates, and navigating iOS sandboxing challenges around media capture
Collaborate cross-functionally with design, backend, and product to ship fast without sacrificing quality
Advocate for user experience, performance, and accessibility
Help 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
5+ years of recent experience shipping iOS apps (recency matters, since the platform evolves fast)
Swift, UIKit, and SwiftUI knowledge
Swift Concurrency and Combine experience
AVFoundation experience or other hands-on work with video and audio on mobile
Experience working on complex real-time apps, video/media-heavy workflows, or social applications
An ownership mentality and a track record of driving projects end-to-end, not just shipping discrete components
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
Experience working with video on mobile at a consumer-facing company
History as a Medal user, if so, be sure to share a clip or your profile!
Knowledge of Android development
Experience with other Apple technologies such as Objective-C, iPadOS, macOS, etc.
CI/CD experience (we use Xcode Cloud, but any CI background translates)
Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, AVFoundation, Xcode Cloud, Amplitude, Proxyman, Figma, Linear
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k)
Wellness and fitness perks including a Wellhub membership and mental health resources
Paid parental leave, fertility and maternal health benefits
Generous PTO policy
Daily meals and commuter benefits at our NYC HQ in Flatiron
Learning and development stipend
Benefits vary by country and employment type.
At Medal, you'll have the autonomy to make an impact from Day 1. The mobile team operates with real independence and fast approval cycles, so if you see something worth building or fixing, you can usually just go do it. 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.
