Our system needs deep communication between Apple’s platform APIs and low level libraries. Our native SDK core library is written in Rust, so we pass loads of data from Rust to C, then C to Swift (or Objective-C), and then all the way back! (Here’s a talk one of engineers gave about how we do all this and here’s a post on how and why we use Rust, though some of the benefits are limited with C/C++.) Understanding of memory models, ownership and lifetime models, cross-compilation, and related concepts is very important to writing solid software here.

We make heavy use of iOS's audio and video APIs (Swift), Google's WebRTC project (ObjC/ObjC++/C++), and Mediasoup (C++). Those each involve deep concepts and tooling. Everyday conversations range from OS graphics frameworks to stream multiplexing to API design.

This work requires both independence and strong collaboration skills. You'll be one of two iOS engineers making big decisions for iOS and being the experts, but you’ll also collaborate with other SDK owners who have conflicting opinions and needs. It's important to communicate early, often, and charitably, but also to work comfortably with little to no guidance.

Build new video call features in Swift on top of our initial iOS library

Establish new communication pathways between low level WebRTC libraries and our clients' applications.

Shape the future of Daily's call APIs

Cooperate with a Test Automation Engineer to establish infrastructure required to maintain a high floor on call quality and reliability

Deep experience (probably at least five years) building iOS SDKs with hairy interdependencies, preferably using Swift

Experience using the pointer and cross-language interop APIs and their semantics to communicate between Swift and C/Objective-C

Experience in Rust—or excitement about learning and using it

Solid writing skills for communicating clearly with coworkers

Comfort both working very independently and as part of a team, and balancing requirements between them

Solid experience with AVFAudio/AVFoundation and Metal is a plus and would complement the expertise of our current iOS engineer

Experience with WebRTC and specifically with Mediasoup would be very handy, but if you’re new to these technologies and excited to learn, that works!

Active curiosity about or experience with Flutter is also a plus

Because Daily is a remote company and we do a lot of asynchronous work (this specific team has members mostly in the US East and Central Europe timzeones), effective writing is very important to us — so your cover letter is a key part of your application

We level based on years of relevant experience; each engineering level has one salary and equity. Compensation also is the same rate regardless of location. (We updated our compensation in January 2022 after an extensive internal process. The linked post talks about how we level candidates, in part because we believe clarity in levels benefits all of us. It’s also the case we strive to be consistent among staff on each team, and we haven’t included all of the details about how we level every role. If you apply and we get to the offer stage, we’ll be actively interested in learning about your experiences—but we may count certain work as indirect to maintain fairness within our team. If we’re in that discussion with you, we’ll do our best to share all the information that informs our decision.)

Medical, dental, and vision group coverage for US teammates

Matching 401k for US teammates

Local country payroll/coverage for teammates outside the US

PTO: We ask that you take at least four weeks paid vacation

Parental leave: paid 4 months leave

IT budget: please get what you need to be effective

Professional learning and development budget

Remote team: work from anywhere — this team mostly resides in the US East and Central Europe timezones, and you’d need to have some synchronous time each week

Applying and interviewing is tough — thanks for considering us. We try to make it as humane as possible by sharing information with you as we go and keeping things moving to the best of our ability. Below is an overview of our full process.

We’re fully remote and always have been, with engineers around the world. Our leadership team includes people who have run remote teams for years.

Please learn about us, https://daily.co/jobs. As it says, we care deeply about what we build and seek kindness and diversity.

We believe in a healthy work-life balance. We’re a startup, but we work reasonable hours and want you to use your vacation time (seriously). Take care of yourself and your family's time.

Daily has raised over $60 million from investors including Renegade Partners, Lachy Groom, Tiger Global, Slack Fund, Y Combinator, and leading angels like April Underwood, Aston Motes, Rahul Vohra, and Scott Belsky.

Hello call. Our VP of Engineering has a video call with you. This is to learn about each other, and see if we can have a good conversation about where we're a mutual fit. We'll tell you about what we're building, how we think about the market opportunity, and how our team works. We're eager to learn about you.

Take-home exercise — compensated. We don’t do live exercises or tests. Instead, we give you a sample project to work on on your own schedule. It’s several hours of thinking and writing. We will pay you for your time.

Teammate video calls — two of these, and each may include a couple of Daily staff. We’ll use the first to talk about your take-home and other automation and devtool focused topics. The second will likely focus on bigger-picture topics. We’ll let you know ahead of time who you’ll be meeting with.

Cofounder call. You’ll have a video call with one of our two co-founders. We’re still small enough that it’s important to meet them as part of the process.

References. We talk to at least two people. We typically ask to talk to a peer and a manager.

Wrap-up call. You’ll talk again with our VP of Engineering about specific projects and teams you might join.