Senior iOS Engineer
Citizen·New York City·Posted 24 September 2026
About the role
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER I wrote the first version of this app in Swift and I still open Xcode most weeks. For years the gap between an idea and a build on my phone was measured in sprints. Now I build with agents and it is measured in hours, and the engineers here who work the same way ship more in a week than a squad used to ship in a quarter. The iOS app is where millions of people find out what is happening around them, in the moment it matters. I want the person who owns it to be an exceptional iOS engineer first, to run agents like a second pair of hands, and to care that it works on one bar of signal in a crowd. If that is you, I want to build the next version with you, next to me. ABOUT Citizen is the #1 safety app in the U.S. Every day, thousands of videos are captured live at the scene of real incidents and distributed in real time to people in every major American city. No other consumer product has this. It is a live network, a newsroom, and a safety tool at once, and it is growing again. The iOS app is where all of it lands: the alert that arrives in seconds, the map, the live video from the scene, the broadcast a user starts with one tap, the Premium and…
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