iOS Software Engineer

Requirements

• You have experience in iOS in particular with Swift
• You have a passion for mentoring other engineers and helping them grow
• You are passionate about user interaction, usability, and providing an excellent user experience
• Demonstrated experience driving change within an organisation and leading complex technical projects
• Extensive experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
• Extensive experience with concurrent programming and mobile memory management
• A strong grasp of scalable software architecture and software engineering best practices
• An intuition for optimal user experience and design
• Rust experience not required, but a major plus
• Deep understanding of APNs, UNUserNotificationCenter and iOS background execution (silent pushes, background app refresh, background URLSession), and how these impact app reliability
• Experience building offline-first data flows with local persistence (Core Data, SQLite, Realm or similar) and conflict-free sync

What We Offer

• Work that Matters: millions of people trust Proton with their privacy. We answer only to our users — not advertisers, not investors with conflicting agendas, not governments. The work you do here is real, and the impact is measurable. (read more about our impact here)
• A great team: Our team is diverse, collaborative, and tight-knit with people coming from all walks of life, including many of the world’s top academic institutions and organizations, such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cambridge, and ETH.
• Technology: you'll get the right hardware and the right software you need to do your best work.
• Learning & Development: we invest in your growth because sharp people make us better. Proton is one of the fastest ways to accelerate your career because you'll be thrown into real challenges, with real ownership, from day one.
• Employee Benefits: your wellbeing isn't an afterthought. We offer strong health coverage, solid retirement options, generous leave, and wellness support so you can bring your best self to work every day
• Stock Options: at Proton, we all have the opportunity to be owners of the company. From day one, you have a real stake in what we're building. When Proton wins, you win.
• In-Person Collaboration: Amazing things happen when passionate, smart, and purposeful people get together in the same room. With offices across Geneva, Zürich, Barcelona, London and more, you'll spend most of your time collaborating face-to-face with people who genuinely care about what they're building
• Food: Lunch and snacks are on us every day in our offices so you can focus on the work and not on what's for lunch.
• Transport: getting to the office shouldn't cost you. We cover public transport, bike allowances, or parking, whichever works for you.
• Flexible Working: you own your schedule. Set hours that work for you and your team — because outcomes matter more than when the clock says you started.