Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rain Bird Corporation is a leading company in connected irrigation technology, and they are seeking a Sr. Engineer - iOS to lead the development of their iOS app that integrates various smart hardware products. The role involves both platform and product work, focusing on creating a cohesive user experience across their product lines while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- The iOS experience across the Smart Irrigation Controller, Smart Hose Timer, and Smart Lighting. This includes a coherent design language and information architecture across three connected hardware products
- Partner with Product Managers, designers, firmware engineers, and backend engineers to drive ideation and delivery for new product and feature launches
- Device provisioning, pairing, and control flows across Wi-Fi and BLE, where reliability matters more than novelty
- The architectural foundation that allows platform concerns (connectivity, device state) and product concerns (UX, AI features) to evolve independently
- AI tool adoption on the team: how we evaluate AI output and how we continue to instrument our systems for AI adoption
- Autonomously working in a small, high-trust team while managing your own priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- How new features and hardware products surface in the mobile experience for our customers
Skills
- 4-year bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of professional iOS development with published App Store examples
- Strong Swift fundamentals including concurrency, protocol-oriented design, modern async patterns
- Experience with Reactive Programming (RxSwift and/or Combine)
- Demonstrated fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a first-class part of daily workflow
- Experience integrating iOS apps with backend services and shipping through App Store Connect
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Design taste: you passionately care how the app looks, feels, and responds
- CoreBluetooth and BLE device communication, ideally for consumer IoT
- SwiftUI experience and a point of view on when to use it vs. UIKit in a mature production codebase
- Modular architecture patterns for multi-product apps
- Fastlane, CI/CD, release automation
- A track record of shaping how AI tools are adopted on an engineering team
- Curiosity about firmware, embedded systems, or the broader IoT stack
Company Overview
Rain Bird Corporation, based in Azusa, California is the world's leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services. It was founded in 1933, and is headquartered in Azusa, California, US, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.rainbird.com.