--- title: 'Senior iOS Engineer, Places at Raya' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ios-engineer-places-raya-remote-28z3q415ehp7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-04' --- # Senior iOS Engineer, Places at Raya - **Company:** Raya - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/raya/21ec3bb6-3187-4cba-a104-f19d6624497c ## Job description We are seeking a Senior iOS Engineer to join the Places Client team to build and elevate member-facing experiences across the Places iOS app. The Places Client team is responsible for all surface areas of the mobile app - from onboarding and payments to new initiatives and core features - ensuring our members enjoy a seamless, high-quality iOS experience. This is a senior client engineering role with deep technical impact across our mobile application. The ideal candidate has built and operated high-scale consumer iOS applications end to end, showing strong ownership from architecture to production execution. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver robust features, maintain software health, and drive technical excellence across the codebase. We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they've never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity. ## Responsibilities - Build and own core member-facing features end to end. - Set architectural patterns and best practices, and solve hard client-side lifecycle and state management problems. - Partner with server engineering on API design, data correctness, and client-server state sync. - Work with product, design, and data science to scope, experiment with, and launch member-facing features. Sweat the details of interaction, motion, and performance. - Contribute across a large, long-lived iOS codebase: performance, testing practices, and deliberate management of tech debt. - Own production health for core flows: monitoring, crash triage, and release quality. - Raise the engineering bar through code review, mentorship, and clear written specs. ## Requirements - 7+ years of professional iOS development experience, with strong proficiency in Swift, UIKit, and MVVM. - Strong experience with RxSwift or similar reactive programming frameworks. - A track record of shipping consumer mobile apps to large audiences, with strong judgment on architecture, performance, and user experience. - Strong consumer product sense, a high bar for design quality, and the ability to partner with product, design, and data. - Proven ability to lead projects from concept through launch, balance speed and quality, and own what you ship after it ships. - You use AI coding tools in your daily work, help the team adopt them, and look for opportunities to improve the engineering harness. ## Nice to Have - Experience with StoreKit 2, subscriptions, and paywall or pricing experiments, including subscription analytics. - Experience with Mapbox or complex map-based interfaces. - Familiarity with SwiftUI alongside UIKit, and with modularizing a large iOS codebase. - Experience with backend development, such as building the APIs and services that mobile clients depend on. - Experience with Redux-style state management patterns. ## About Raya ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Raya is a private, membership-based community platform where people around the world can connect and collaborate to find life partners, friends, and professional opportunities. - **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed funded, 2016) - **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet - **Target customers**: B2C – Adults seeking a trusted, curated social networking experience - **Mission or purpose statement**: To create a trusted online community where people feel comfortable finding life partners, friends, and work collaborations, and to bring these interactions into the real world. ## Products & Services - **Raya App**: A membership-based social community platform that uses an application process with algorithmic assessment and anonymous committee input to curate its user base. Members pay a monthly fee and are expected to follow rules of respect, trust, and privacy. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – At least one Pre-Seed round ($1.6M led by Atlas Finance Group in Dec 2016) and another round in June 2019 (details undisclosed). Additional investors include Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, and Niche Capital. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atlas Finance Group, Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, Niche Capital - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~101 employees, with a **yearly growth of +38.6%**. Workforce distributed across 15 countries. Active job postings are up **+33.3% year-over-year**, indicating expansion. ## Competitive Advantages - **High Curation/Exclusivity**: Raya’s strict application process (with referrals and committee review) creates a highly selective, trust-based community that differentiates it from mass-market social networks. - **Community-First Culture**: Strong emphasis on member behavior and shared values; low report rate (~1 in 11,000 connections) signals a high-quality user experience. - **Privacy & Trust**: Strict policies against hate, excessive wealth display, and disrespect, creating a safe environment for genuine connections. ## Strategic Focus - **Global Expansion**: Raya has openings in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Mexico City, and is actively growing its engineering and product teams. - **AI & ML Integration**: The company has a dedicated Head of Machine Learning, AI, and Data, and uses algorithms to assess applications and improve the community experience. - **Product Development**: Active hiring for Product Managers and Senior Backend Engineers suggests investment in new features (e.g., "Places") and scaling core infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Career Growth**: Fast-growing company (+38.6% YoY headcount) with opportunities to take on ownership in engineering, product, and AI/ML roles. - **Global & Remote-first Culture**: Fully remote roles available, with global hubs and a diverse team across 15 countries. - **Technical Challenges**: Work on complex systems for recommendations, member experience, and internal tools using a modern stack (Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TensorFlow, Looker, dbt). - **Culture**: Described as a "family of talented individuals" devoted to fostering human connection through technology. - **Location Flexibility**: Remote roles; hubs in major cities worldwide. ## Sources 1. [rayatheapp.com](https://www.rayatheapp.com/about) 2. [rayatheapp.com/careers](https://www.rayatheapp.com/careers) 3. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/rayatheapp) 4. [Lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/raya) 5. [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/raya) ## Other roles at Raya - [Senior Data Scientist, Places](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-scientist-places-raya-remote-etbw7y5jr4j0) - [Community Support Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/community-support-manager-raya-remote-gx6gz795v99r) - [Server Engineering Manager, Member Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/server-engineering-manager-member-experience-raya-remote-gbxfa0qmj3tn) - [Full-Stack Engineer, Internal Tools](https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineer-internal-tools-raya-remote-796srqpyyy3m) - [Senior Backend Engineer, Member Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-member-experience-raya-remote-kthfw491fyv4)