Senior iOS Engineer

Perchwell

Perchwell

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 160k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on Sep 27, 2025

Location

New York Office

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • NYC $160K – $200K • Offers Equity

Who We Are

Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision: empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry.

Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

What We’re Looking For

Perchwell is scaling our mobile experience to match the growth of our platform. Our iOS app is a core part of how real estate professionals search, collaborate, and serve their clients, and we’re looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us scale and evolve it.

This role offers broad ownership: you’ll contribute across all parts of the app, drive feature development end-to-end, and collaborate closely with product, design, and backend teams.

As part of our small, collaborative team, you will be involved in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle from refining ideas and shaping design, to implementing, testing, and scaling features in production. You’ll also play a key role in strengthening our processes, tech stack, and architecture as we continue to grow our team, business, and technology.

You are self-driven, takes initiative, thrives in a collaborative environment, and stays motivated to build high-quality products that deliver real value to our users.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and release new client-facing features in Swift that are fast, stable, and effective

  • Collaborate with backend, product, and design partners to ship high-quality, user-friendly experiences

  • Maintain and improve existing features while contributing to test coverage and reliability

  • Participate in code reviews and help define engineering best practices
    Take ownership of QA and release cycles as part of a “you build it, you run it” culture

  • Influence the direction of the iOS codebase, architecture, and overall mobile strategy

Required For The Role

  • 5+ years proven experience in designing, building, refactoring, and releasing Native iOS applications using industry standard patterns.

  • Strong proficiency in Swift and UIKit

  • Understand and implement iOS specific design patterns such as MVP, MVC, and MVVM

  • Familiarity with networking libraries and API integrations

  • Ability to understand, debug and optimize large and complex code bases

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working cross-functionally

  • Self-motivated and proactive - able to identify problems and drive solutions without heavy oversight

Preferred Qualifications

  • Past experience working within medium-to-large scale complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers on-schedule

  • Familiarity with accessibility best practices in iOS development

  • Appreciation for (and the ability to create) simple, intuitive UI

  • Background working on small, high-ownership engineering teams

  • Knowledge of automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines

Salary Information

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.

The compensation for this position is $160-$200K base salary + equity + benefits

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays

  • 401K with a company match

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans

  • HSA and FSA options

  • Commuter benefits

  • Parental leave

  • Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

  • Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K