Founding Engineer - iOS & Swift (f/m/d)
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At Bliro, we're transforming how businesses capture and leverage customer interactions with privacy and AI at the core. We're assembling a small, elite team of engineers who will define our technical foundation and shape a product used by leading businesses across Europe.
As our Founding Engineer - iOS & Swift, you'll own Bliro's iOS application end-to-end. We've already built and shipped a V1 natively in Swift/SwiftUI. Now we need someone who can take it from 1 to scale - hardening the architecture, elevating code quality, and shipping the features that turn a solid foundation into a best-in-class mobile product. This isn't a feature factory. You'll make the calls on how we build for iOS, and your decisions will define the platform for years to come.
What You'll Do
- Own the iOS platform. Take full responsibility for Bliro's iOS app - architecture, performance, reliability, and release pipeline. This is your product.
- Scale what's built. Take our V1 Swift/SwiftUI app and evolve it - improve architecture, harden reliability, optimize performance, and establish the patterns that let us ship faster as the product grows.
- Build for real-time. Implement robust audio pipelines, WebSocket connections, and background processing that keep Bliro's transcription engine running reliably across every edge case iOS throws at you.
- Ship AI-powered mobile experiences. Design and build the interfaces that bring Bliro's AI assistant to life on iOS - meeting summaries, agentic workflows, and CRM integrations, all feeling native and fast.
- Set the standard. Establish testing strategies (snapshot testing, UI testing), CI/CD pipelines, and code quality practices for our iOS codebase from scratch.
Must-haves:
- Strong computer science fundamentals from a top-tier university (TUM, ETH, RWTH, KIT, or equivalent)
- 3-5 years of production iOS development with Swift and SwiftUI
- Deep understanding of iOS platform APIs - concurrency (async/await, actors), networking, audio frameworks, background execution, and app lifecycle
- Experience architecting iOS apps from the ground up, not just contributing to existing ones
- Track record of owning and shipping complex mobile features end-to-end
- Strong opinions on code quality, testing, and system design - loosely held
- Experience with web or backend development (Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB) - you're not afraid to fix something outside of Xcode
- Previous CTO, tech lead, or founding engineer role
- Experience scaling and hardening an existing iOS codebase (performance profiling, modularization, architecture evolution)
- Familiarity with real-time audio processing or WebSocket-based architectures on iOS
- Knowledge of snapshot testing tooling (swift-snapshot-testing, Prefire)
- Electron or cross-platform desktop development experience
- Understanding of compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) in production systems
- Experience building or scaling your own product (side project, startup, open-source)
- Real ownership from day one. No ticket factories. You pick up problems, not tasks, and you own them until they're solved.
- Company equity. VSOP participation so you benefit directly from the company's success.
- Technical depth meets product impact. You're not building internal tooling. Every line of code ships to paying customers and directly moves the business.
- Elite, small team. 10 engineers, seed-stage, Munich-based. Everyone knows everyone. No layers, no politics.
- Leadership trajectory. You'll define how we build for iOS. As the team grows, you grow into the lead role naturally.
Stack: Swift, SwiftUI. AI pipeline built on frontier LLMs with agentic architecture.
Location: Right at the heart of Munich.
Ready to build the iOS platform that makes AI-powered personal assistants a reality? We'd love to hear from you.
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