Job Description
Location: Long Beach, California or Remote - Eligible US Locations
About the role and about You:
Zwift is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Zwift Companion team. In this role, you will work on Zwift’s mobile app, Zwift Companion (ZC), delivering high-quality features and ensuring a seamless user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and enhance and maintain our apps on iOS and Android. Additionally, you will contribute to defining and executing the technical strategy to achieve our team objectives - make it easy for Zwifters to plan and start their experiences in Zwift.
We place a high value on flexibility, transparency, and fun while supporting our team to do their best work.
What you’ll do:
Work on software features and tools that will improve Zwift Companion. You’ll be expected to build out a deep understanding of the software and influence your teammates and occasionally other teams and functions.
Drive technical solutions for software features of moderate-to-high complexity, making logical design trade-offs at the application level. For example:
- Lead complex feature integrations
- Manage end-to-end feature delivery, including alignment with external stakeholders
- Resolve challenging technical problems that require working across team boundaries
Work on existing native mobile codebases (iOS and Android) and contribute to building out our Native + Kotlin Multiplatform solution.
Proactively advise your team and manager on technical approaches, helping to establish best practices and improve team capabilities.
Continually drive software engineering best practices within the team. You’ll embrace experimentation and iteration and mentor others along the same lines.
Where possible, you’ll evaluate systemic root causes with the help of other senior and staff engineers, looking to solve problems with a 3-6+ month forward vision.
Contribute to technical strategy development, occasionally influencing cross-team technical direction.
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing mobile applications.
- Proficiency in native mobile development (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android).
- Experience with structured, methodical problem solving and debugging.
- Track record of participating in constructive dialogue with an engineering team.
- Experience applying expertise to solve problems and being able to learn quickly when in a new situation.
Bonus points:
- Proficiency in Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform & React Native
- Experienced working with distributed teams.
- Interest in building solutions that support our engaged Zwift Community of cyclists, runners, and fitness enthusiasts.
- Experience in backend services development:
- Have worked with Kafka or other event streaming tooling
- Have shipped microservices and experience with EDA (event driven architecture)
- Have worked with SQL databases
- Have an understanding of Kubernetes and infrastructure as code
If Zwift determines in any stage of our interviews that any AI tools are being used without disclosure or citation, your candidacy will be disqualified.
For All US Based Full-Time Positions:
The base salary for this position ranges between $105,500- 165,000. The base salary will be based on a number of factors including the role offered, the individual’s job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, Zwift is proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package for all eligible employees which also includes performance bonuses, equity, and a full range of medical, financial, and other perks and benefits.
How to stand out among the rest:
Your resume/CV is enough to show off your skills, accomplishments, and experience. However, if you choose to include a cover letter introducing us to your awesome personality, we will read that too.
We strongly believe that different backgrounds and ideas are a competitive advantage; we hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Zwift is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing [email protected].
Zwift, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
