Founding iOS Developer

iOS Developer (Founding) — Venice Beach CA, HybridAbout us:Our partner is a repeat-founder team building a consumer social + health product. Tagline: Healthmaxxing With Friends. Alpha users love it, and we are ready to hire our first founding full-stack engineer.
The role:Own the iOS app end to end. Design the architecture, ship delightful UI, and make the app feel fast, reliable, and social. Partner closely with backend to shape APIs, real-time interactions, and data flows. This is staff level and up with real product and design influence.
What you’ll do:

• Build and ship Swift and SwiftUI features that drive daily habit and retention
• Shape app architecture, navigation, state, modularization, and offline behavior
• Integrate HealthKit, Apple Watch, notifications, background tasks, and app extensions
• Partner with backend on real-time feeds, push, WebSockets or SSE, and API design

You might be a fit if you have:

• 3–10+ years building consumer iOS apps users love, from prototype to App Store
• Deep Swift and SwiftUI, async/await, Combine, and app architecture patterns (MVVM or Redux-style)
• Experience with HealthKit or similar device integrations, push, deeplinks, and permissions
• Strong product taste, accessibility awareness, and a habit of measuring outcomes
• Comfort in small, fast teams where you own decisions and ship weekly

Nice to have:

• WatchKit or watchOS complications
• AVFoundation or short-video capture and playback
• Security and privacy for health-adjacent data

Location and setup:Hybrid in Venice Beach. West Coast preferred. Relocation supported within 6–12 months. Competitive comp with strong equity.
How to applySend a short note and links to GitHub or shipped work to jobs@vamotalent.com. Bonus: Include one example of a performance or reliability win you are proud of!