Lead Apps Engineer - iOS

Job Title : Lead App Engineer -iOS

Work Location : Pune, India

About the Team

You will be part of the Mobile Engineering organization responsible for building and evolving best-in-class iOS and Android applications that serve millions of customers across Williams-Sonoma, Inc.’s portfolio of brands. The team partners closely with Product, UX, Backend, Analytics, and QA teams to deliver scalable, high-performance, and customer-centric mobile commerce experiences.

Overview of the Role

The Lead App Engineer will drive the architecture, development, and delivery of iOS applications used across Williams-Sonoma’s digital ecosystem. This role combines deep hands-on development expertise with technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate will define engineering standards, influence platform strategy, and ensure high-quality, scalable, and secure mobile solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable iOS applications.
• Define, evolve, and enforce mobile engineering standards aligned with WSI best practices.
• Drive adoption of MVVM, Clean Architecture, and modular design patterns.
• Own technical decisions related to performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop high-quality mobile applications using Swift and modern iOS frameworks.
• Build reusable components, SDKs, and shared libraries across brands.
• Optimize application performance, memory usage, and responsiveness.
• Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pair programming.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, QA, and Backend Engineers to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Ensure high code quality through automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Champion responsible and secure use of AI in development, testing, and quality practices.
• Participate in release planning, on-call rotations, and production issue resolution.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of hands-on iOS development experience.
• Strong expertise in Swift, iOS SDK, and Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• Experience with UIKit and/or SwiftUI.
• Deep understanding of mobile app architectures such as MVC, MVVM, and Clean Architecture.
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and managing complex data flows.
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineers.
• Good to have hands-on experience with Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack components.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.