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title: 'Senior iOS Engineer at Opal'
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# Senior iOS Engineer at Opal

- **Company:** Opal
- **Location:** Europe
- **Compensation:** £55k–£70k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/opal-os/7c4f5120-b56c-42a0-8f1a-587fc69965f2

## Job description

We're looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to build the app that helps millions of people take their attention back.

Role Title: Senior iOS Engineer Team: Engineering

Location: Remote (EU or UK), with bi-annual global meetups and 1 team meetup

## WHY OPAL

- Mission-driven impact: We are on a mission to help 1 billion people focus better every day. Our community has saved 500M+ hours and counting.
- Ownership & flexibility: Structure your work to foster creativity and productivity.
- Collaborative culture: A small, high-impact team that gathers bi-annually for meetups and learning. Nearly $1M in revenue per employee.
- Growth & recognition: A top-30 US productivity app, Apple Design Award finalist, 4.8/5 across 60k+ reviews. Competitive compensation and early equity.
- Well-supported: Backed by world-class investors and the founders of Pinterest, Snapchat and Revolut.

WHY THIS ROLE AND WHY NOW?

Screen time has become one of the defining issues of our era, affecting more than 5 billion people who carry a smartphone every day. Public awareness is rising fast, regulators are paying attention and Apple has made Screen Time a headline feature of its recent OS releases.

It is also a genuinely interesting moment to be an iOS engineer. The way apps get built has changed more in the last two years than in the previous ten. We want someone who is already living in that change, has built their own way of working with AI, and is improving it while maintaining ownership and a high bar for craft and excellence.

Here's why this is the right moment to join:

- A small team where your work is visible: You'll own real surfaces of an app that millions of people open every day.
- Craft is the culture: Polish is not a phase at the end of a project; it's the point.
- Room to lead: This role is scoped so that it can grow into technical leadership.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

- Ship features and interactions end to end in the iOS app
- Bring your own ideas into the product, not just execute specs
- Design and analyse AB tests, and act on what the metrics say
- Improve our dev workflows, tooling and how the team works with AI
- Work directly with design and product in a flat, collaborative structure
- Support customers and stay close to what they're experiencing

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 5+ years building iOS apps, with work you can show live in the App Store
- Deep Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit and Combine. You are comfortable across the iOS toolchain
- An eye that catches the details other people ship past
- Your own workflows for working with AI, which you keep sharpening for yourself and your team
- Experience at an early-stage or fast-growing startup, where you owned more than your job title
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward resolving it yourself
- A view on what makes a feature succeed, not just what makes it work

## BONUS

- MacOS, WatchOS, WidgetKit and other Apple frameworks
- Experience training or fine-tuning models
- AB testing and analytics experience
- Apps of your own in the App Store, built because you wanted them to exist
- French

## HOW TO APPLY

The application takes about 15 minutes.

We ask for links to what you’ve shipped, a short video of something you built that you’re proud of, and how you work with AI. We watch every video.

If you want the thing you build to be the reason millions of people get their attention back, we’d like to see your work.

## About Opal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Opal is The Focus Company that builds a screen time app helping users measure and improve their focus on iPhone, iPad, and macOS.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States (with a main office in Paris, France)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Kenneth Schlenker (CEO) and Matt Davenport (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Mobile Computing Software Products / Digital Wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C — individuals seeking to reduce screen time and improve focus; B2B/B2G through Opal for Schools
- **Mission statement**: "To empower humans to focus better every day." The company believes in the power of technology for human progress, productivity, and happiness, and aligns with Humane Tech principles.

## Products & Services
- **Opal App (iOS, iPad, macOS)**: The flagship screen time blocker and focus timer. Users can block distracting apps and websites, set focus timers, and track their "Opal Score" — a composite measure of sleep, focus, and rest. The app has a 4.8-star rating with 150k+ ratings. It is a top 30 grossing productivity app in the US (excluding Google, Microsoft, and Notion).
- **Focus Timer**: A built-in tool that lets users lock into focus sessions for a set duration.
- **Focus Rules**: Automated rules that block distractions based on time, location, or behavior.
- **Opal for Schools**: A dedicated offering aimed at educational institutions to help students focus.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $4.3M (Seed round in 2021 from 10 investors; a second round in 2022 from 1 investor)
- **Key Metric**: $1M in Revenue per Employee in 2024 (projected). The company reports saving users over 50 million hours of human screen time.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include founders and early-stage investors who built Pinterest (Evan Sharp), Snapchat, Revolut, Front, and others. Institutional investors include Speedinvest and Night Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 93.1% YoY (from ~1 to 28 employees). The app is a top 30 grossing productivity app in the US. The company releases a new app version every Monday (250+ consecutive weekly releases). They run multiple A/B tests in production, with ideas sourced from a community board, customer support, and surveys.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Capital Efficiency**: The company projects $1M in revenue per employee, indicating a highly efficient, profitable growth model (not reliant on constant fundraising).
- **Product-Market Fit & Retention**: 94% average focus success rate and 90% of users report effective results. The app has a 4.8-star rating from 150k+ reviews.
- **Strong Brand & Mission**: "The Focus Company" is a clear, defensible brand position in the digital wellness space. The mission resonates deeply with a growing audience concerned about screen time.
- **Experienced Team**: Average team experience is 10 years, with alumni from Google, Apple, Sunrise, Foursquare, and Product Hunt.
- **Engineering Velocity**: The team has a 240-week streak of shipping every Monday, demonstrating a strong culture of rapid iteration and reliability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Moving beyond iOS to macOS and expanding the "Opal Score" as a holistic wellness metric. The Opal for Schools initiative targets institutional adoption.
- **Global Talent Acquisition**: Hiring across Europe (UK, France, Finland, Poland) with the ability to relocate talent from the US. The company is remote-flexible but maintains a Paris office.
- **Scaling Impact**: The long-term goal is to empower 1 billion people to focus better every day. Current focus is on maintaining high growth (double-digit monthly) while preserving capital efficiency.
- **Community-Driven Development**: Product features are heavily influenced by user feedback via a community board, surveys, and direct support interactions.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees directly contribute to saving people time and improving mental health — a tangible, positive impact on hundreds of thousands of daily users.
- **Remote-Flexible Culture**: The company has a global DNA. Employees work from the UK, France, Finland, and Poland. They meet quarterly for a global company offsite and encourage monthly visits to the Paris office.
- **High Ownership & Autonomy**: The team values documentation, accountability, and individual goals. They operate with "full transparency and empathy."
- **Competitive Compensation**: Includes competitive salary, early equity, Macbook and accessories, health insurance, 5 weeks paid vacation, and access to the latest productivity software.
- **Small, Experienced Team**: With only 28 people, new hires have outsized impact and direct access to founders and leadership. The team is described as "smart, ambitious" with an average of 10 years of experience.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: A focus on weekly releases, A/B testing, and practical impact. The tech stack includes Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python, Snowflake, Firebase, and Figma.

## Sources
1. [Opal Careers Page](https://www.opal.so/careers)
2. [Opal Official Website](https://www.opal.so/?link=twitter)
3. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/opal-opalso)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withopal)
5. [Opal About Page](https://opalapp.com/about)

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