Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

What You’ll Do:

You will be responsible for bringing core features to our iOS, iPadOS and watchOS applications while maintaining, improving and modularizing our existing Swift codebase.

You will work in close coordination with our in-house design team to facilitate the translation of designs to shippable code and will play a pivotal role in helping to shape the applications future.

• Develop and deliver high-quality features across iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS applications, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability of the codebase.
• Collaborate closely with designers to translate UI/UX concepts into clean, functional, and user-friendly interfaces that align with platform best practices.
• Maintain, refactor, and modularize existing Swift and Objective-C code to improve code quality, reusability, and long-term sustainability.
• Integrate and consume RESTful APIs, ensuring efficient data handling, error management, and seamless user experiences across network-driven features.
• Manage app lifecycle processes including builds, provisioning, certificates, and App Store submissions, ensuring compliance with Apple’s guidelines.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices around architecture, testing, and version control using Git.
• Work cross-functionally with backend and other platform teams to troubleshoot issues, support API design discussions, and ensure smooth end-to-end system integration.

What You Need:

• Minimum 3 years experience in a commercial software development environment
• Strong knowledge of both SwiftUI, UIKit and other core Apple frameworks
• Experience writing both Swift and Objective-C code
• Solid understanding of Software Development principles and app lifecycle management
• Strong understanding of iOS build systems, provisioning, certificates, and App Store requirements
• Experience building against Rest APIs
• Experience with MapKit and/or other mapping SDKs
• Strong proficiency in Git
• Basic understanding of backend systems to help troubleshoot issues and contribute to API design discussions

Bonus Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience in one (or all) of the following would be advantageous:
• Aviation
• Network-driven application development
• Experience working with Metal or OpenGL

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to [email protected]. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.