Lead Software Engineer – iOS (Mobile DAO)

Are you an experienced Lead iOS software engineer with a passion for blockchain technology? If so, we want you to join us at Wilder World as our Lead Software Engineer for the Mobile DAO. As part of the Mobile DAO, you will be responsible for building an elegant, secure, and decentralized iOS based version of ZERO OS.

Wilder World is an immersive 5D Metaverse built on Ethereum, Unreal Engine 5, and the ZERO platform. As a member of our globally diverse team, you’ll work alongside some of the brightest minds and most gifted artists in the industry, building a fully decentralized, community-owned virtual nation to be experienced in our immersive photorealistic Metaverse.

As our Lead Software Engineer, you will partner closely with product, design, and blockchain/p2p DAOs to build new and innovative experiences for ZERO’s iOS application. You’ll lead complex technical projects involving many designers, engineers, and product stakeholders, and drive development of native human-centered interfaces using the latest iOS programming tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build an elegant, secure, and decentralized iOS based version of ZERO OS
• Partner closely with product, design, and blockchain/p2p DAOs to build new and innovative experiences for ZERO’s iOS application
• Lead complex technical projects involving many designers, engineers, and product stakeholders
• Work closely with Product and UX DAOs to define human-centered feature requirements
• Drive development of native human-centered interfaces using the latest iOS programming tools and techniques
• Build reusable components for iOS that interface with ZERO’s primary API and protocol SDKs
• Analyze and optimize UI and application code for efficiency, quality, performance, security, and scale
• Implement unit tests, automated tests, and automated deployment systems to ensure systems are working correctly
• Perform code reviews and contribute to building clean, logical, and readable codebases
• Create iOS focused architectural and human-centered technical specifications
• Contribute to the open-source ecosystem

Requirements

• B.S. Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience (i.e., dropout or self-taught)
• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience
• 3+ years’ experience building complex applications for the iOS, including iPhone or iPad using Objective-C/C++/Swift with the iOS SDK and other frameworks
• Experienced working with scalable and production-grade code bases
• Experience working with customer-focused application development
• Experience working with SQL, GraphQL, key-value stores, and large datasets
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying features from end-to-end
• Experience utilizing object-oriented software design patterns
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development

Bonus Points:

• Working with Web3 technologies (e.g., dApp architecture, Solidity, Smart Contracts)
• Interest in the emerging set of blockchain-based use-cases/technologies (including DAOs, NFTs, DeFi, and Layer 2s)
• Experience with security best practices, in the domain of cryptography, dev ops, and hacking
• Experience working in a venture-funded startup, successful crypto project, and/or big tech
• Low-level programming or embedded systems programming
• Functional programming experience

Benefits

• The opportunity to be a part of a movement – Join the Cyber Renaissance
• You’ll make more than just a paycheck. You’ll have the opportunity to combine your passion with purpose every day while achieving tangible results.
• You’ll join a high-performing, purpose-driven team that will help you advance your skills and adopt the growth mindset that’s essential to success at our company (and in everyday life).
• Our inclusive environment will allow you to come to “work” each day and be your best, most authentic self.
• You won’t find a lot of office policies and politics around here, but you will find people on a mission to create the systems of the future.
• Work from anywhere in the world.

ABOUT WILDER WORLD

Wilder World is an Immersive 5D Metaverse built on Ethereum, Unreal Engine 5 and the ZERO, our bespoke platform . Wilder World is powered by the WILD token which is used on the Wilder World Metaverse Market where you can buy and trade NFTs with in-world utility. The Wilder vision is to create a fully decentralized and community-owned virtual nation to be experienced in our immersive photorealistic Metaverse.