Senior iOS Developer

At Chordify we're looking for a Senior iOS Developer to join our Labs team. About The Job Our mission at Chordify is to make it as easy as possible for musicians of all skill levels to learn to play their favorite music. As a Senior iOS Developer in our Labs team, you will help bring new educational and music technology ideas to life in our iOS app. You'll work on features that help musicians practice, play, and improve, while also contributing to the modernization of our iOS codebase. This role is a great fit for someone with solid, senior iOS experience who wants to work close to product innovation and audio technology. You'll get the freedom to come up with your own solutions, and you'll be the go-to expert on the iOS side of things. The Labs team works on new ways to help musicians move forward in their favorite songs. This can mean working on streaming integrations, exploring new audio technology, making lyrics or tuning features more useful, or find new ways of to make musical content available and understandable. Not everything is clear-cut from the start, so your input will be needed to find the right balance between vision, design, and implementation. Want to have a look at the current app yourself? You can find it here on the App Store. You'll Thrive Here If You Have 5+ years of experience developing iOS appsHave strong Swift skillsAre proficient in SwiftUI and UIKitHave experience with automated testing (unit, integration, and UI)Have experience with modern architecture patterns (such as The Composable Architecture) and modularizationHave worked on an existing app or larger codebase beforeAre often the person others turn to with tricky technical questions, and enjoy helping teammates growTake ownership of your work and have the intrinsic drive to get things releasedCommunicate clearly, ask questions, and reach out when you need helpAre open to picking up new technical skills, including some curiosity about AI toolingEnjoy thinking along from a product perspective, not only from a technical perspectiveAre comfortable working in a team where priorities can shift, and where you sometimes need to help decide what to pick up, postpone, or say no toAre located in the Netherlands Nice-to-haves Interest in Rust / FFI, for contributions to our in-house audio-stackExperience with audio-related development, music technology, streaming integrations, or implementing complex UX/UI featuresExperience in a smaller company, scale-up, or product environment where ownership and flexibility were important Why join us? Are a bunch of friendly, open, always caring people, from a variety of cultural and professional backgroundsUse Agile principles in most of our day-to-day workWant everybody to be able to have real impact without micromanagementLove music! How We Work We trust you to use your expertise, make decisions, and take ownership of your work. In return, we expect you to take your accountabilities seriously. Yourself included. Collaborate with your colleagues, and hold each other accountable for what we have agreed to achieve. None of this works without direction. We set clear goals, near and far, so everyone's work points the same way. You always know what's your responsibility, what belongs to someone else, and how your work contributes to Chordify's success. We want the world to live its music! You will Build and improve iOS features for musicians all over the worldUse Agile principles, but we don't work in a traditional Scrum setup. This means you'll have room to think along, take ownership, and help shape priorities together with the team.Work on Labs projects that explore new music technology ideas and maintain existing featuresHelp implement features such as new streaming service integrations and improvements to our practice toolsCollaborate closely with UI/UX Design, backend developers, and other iOS developersGive input from an iOS development perspective during product planning, and be a technical point of contact for the teamHelp reduce technical debt and move the iOS codebase forward in our architectural roadmapHelp modernize the iOS codebase and make technical improvements that speed up future developmentLearn how our iOS architecture works and contribute to its future direction In your first months, we'll help you get familiar with our way of working, our product, and how Chordify is organized. You'll start with a well-scoped development project, so you can learn by doing while getting to know the team, the codebase, and our iOS setup. This could be something like improving the current features that give our users feedback on their playing and how they are integrated across the app. Over time, you'll grow into someone who can take ownership of iOS features within Labs, actively contribute ideas in team discussions, and help shape how new music-playing experiences are built in the app. After 12 months, success means you are fully integrated in the team: delivering implementations, improving existing features and giving input from an iOS perspective on future ideas within Labs. Concrete projects on the horizon include new streaming service integrations (such as Apple Music) and a new practice-mode feature on the song page, for example live feedback while playing. Besides the Labs team, you have established yourself as the iOS expert within the organization as a whole, are actively helping fellow iOS developers with technical challenges they face in their own product teams, create plans on how to tackle existing technical debt in the code base and are able to communicate the expected capacity needs accordingly. There will be room to go deeper into iOS development, our audio technology, and product innovation. There's also room to grow into more of a team dynamics or leadership role. Either within Labs or within the iOS Guild, depending on where your ambitions lie. You get A gross monthly salary of €3944 to €5914 (excluding 8% yearly holiday allowance) depending on your skills, expertise, and experienceA fulltime contract which means you work between 32-40 hours a week, your choiceFlexible working hoursTo work at either our Utrecht or Groningen office and, if you want, partially from homeA pension schemeA daily free lunch, snacks, and drinksCommuting expenses reimbursedThe possibility to take part in our lease bike programA budget each year to spend on anything music relatedTo be part of an international team of music loversTo enjoy after-work drinks, jam-sessions, or gaming nights in the office with fellow Chordifyers whenever you feel like itTo make music during workTo trade public holidays for other days that are important to youTo focus on your mental health through OpenUp The process 📝 Apply before October 15th 💬 First interview (online) with Liza, People & Culture – scheduled 19–23 October 🤝 Culture-fit interview with Menno (Team Lead) and Tijmen (Founder) – scheduled 26–30 October 📱 Skills interview with the iOS team – scheduled 2–13 November 🎉 Offer! Apply for the job Do you want to join our team as our new Senior IOS Developer? Then we'd love to hear about you before October 15th! Meet the team (change) Our Take On Requirements You don’t need to tick every box to apply. We care more about your curiosity, motivation, and willingness to learn than about a perfect match on paper. If this role sounds exciting, and you feel you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you. We especially encourage you to apply if you bring a different perspective, background, or path into tech.