Staff Software Engineer

About the Role IAA is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for our mobile app - the primary mobile touchpoint for buyers participating in vehicle auctions across North America.

Our platform processes high volumes of live and timed auction transactions, and the mobile experience is central to how buyers search, bid, pay, and arrange delivery. This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

You will guide architectural decisions, establish iOS engineering standards, and mentor a distributed team of iOS engineers across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations. You will work closely with our Principal Engineer, product managers, and backend .

NET teams to ship features that directly impact revenue and buyer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the iOS architectural roadmap, setting the standard for what well-scoped, production-ready iOS changes look like Define and enforce iOS engineering standards across the team: code structure, MVVM/Clean Architecture patterns, feature flag strategy, PR size and quality expectations, and release processes Own the CI/CD pipeline for iOS: build reliability, test coverage strategy, code signing, and App Store Connect release management Establish and improve observability practices using crash analytics and performance monitoring; drive data-informed decision-making on stability and user experience Lead security hardening: secure credential storage, secrets management, dependency audits, and secure coding standards across the iOS codebase Design and implement integrations with push notification infrastructure, deep links and universal links, identity verification SDKs, and third-party platforms Help improve software process in a way that focuses on reliability, and quality.

Collaborate with backend and BFF teams to represent mobile needs early in API and service design Partner with product and design on building out a mobile focused feature backlog. Support production incident response for iOS issues and coordinate h