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WhatsApp - Software Engineer (Technical Leadership) - iOS

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BangaloreFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

iOS software engineer role focused on technical leadership within WhatsApp Services in India. Lead architecture and cross-team initiatives for payments, commerce, and money-centric flows on iOS, mentoring engineers and collaborating with product, design, data science, and operations to deliver scalable mobile experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship client features for WhatsApp on iOS, with a focus on performance, reliability and responsiveness
  • Own iOS client architecture for services surfaces — payments, commerce and the everyday money-centric flows people already come to WhatsApp for
  • Work across Swift and Objective-C with the iOS SDK, and partner with server and platform teams on API design
  • Identify and solve the hardest technical problems across the pillar, including finding where new technology can address previously intractable problems
  • Set technical direction across multiple teams and own the architecture for a major area of the product
  • Lead initiatives of org-wide scope, resolving ambiguity in both product definition and technical approach
  • Drive engineering standards, quality and craft across the pillar, and make teams and systems work better to increase their impact
  • Mentor other engineers, influence cross-functional partners in product, design and data science, and act as a credible co-owner of product outcomes
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in product management, design, data science and operations to build innovative application experiences
  • Partner with payments, legal, compliance and local operations partners to ship services that meet the reliability and regulatory bar expected in India

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language with a PhD
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
  • Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
  • Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
  • Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
  • Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations

Skills

Required:Cross-functional leadershipiOS developmentAPI design and collaboration with server/platform teams
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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