Location: Remote   |   Full-Time
Swift Objective-C Python Rust Postgres AWS Concurrency SwiftUI macOS iOS Android Full Stack Engineer Staff Engineer

About Littlebird: Littlebird is a personalized AI assistant designed for Mac and Android. Our mission is to understand the information that matters for your personal workflow, helping users accomplish more, learn faster, and turn insights into action. We are a well-funded startup with over $4 million in seed funding, growing quickly in a remote-first environment. Our stack includes Python, React, Swift, Rust, Postgres, and AWS.

About The Role: We are seeking a Senior Swift Developer to join our fast-paced team. This position reports directly to the technical leadership team and will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing new features for Littlebird, our personalized AI teammate for Mac and Android. You will work closely with R&D and Product leads to design scalable architecture and build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy, and scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with R&D and Product leads to design scalable architecture
  • Prove out AI feature ideas, iterate on them, and integrate them into the product when they’re ready for prime time
  • Build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy, and scale
  • Understand and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure
  • Build and own features that will produce value for our customers

Requirements:

  • Minimum 5 years of hands-on software development experience with at least a few years focus on Swift or Objective-C
  • Proven ability to build complex, responsive user interfaces in MacOS, iOS and/or Android
  • Comfortable handling concurrency, multi-threaded programming, and performance tuning in complex systems
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks—from slow rendering times to memory management issues
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Experience:

  • Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase
  • Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans
  • Experience with assistive technologies like screen readers and voice recognition software
  • Proficiency in Rust and/or Python

Benefits:

  • Remote-friendly work environment
  • Collaborative team culture
  • Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
  • Competitive compensation packages including stock and health/dental/vision/life benefits, paid time off, 401k, and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours across multiple time zones
Post Date: June 30, 2025