Yik Yak is all about local community. At Yik Yak, we make fun ways to connect with people within 5 miles of your location. When you think local, you think Yik Yak – that’s our goal. We aim to be the world’s dominant mode of local communication.
We like to move quickly, so we’ve kept our job application process as lightweight as possible
📍 Location: Remote (or Nashville, TN)
🤩 Why we’re excited about this job: You’ll help shape and realize our vision at Yik Yak. You’ll join us during a pivotal time, at the intersection of a historic revival and building the durable local platform of the future.
🔨 What you’ll do:
• Develop fun features on iOS that help people interact with the people around them in new ways
• Improve our iOS app on a daily basis – we want to release updates at warp speed
• Be involved in high-level technical decision making
• Work closely with our product/design team to realize short and long term feature goals
•Be an early leader inside Yik Yak’s development organization
👋 Minimum Qualifications:
• Strong affinity for Yik Yak and local community
• 2+ years of experience in developing iOS apps in Swift
• Problem-solving mindset
• Self-starting work ethic – ability to make important decisions on your own, on the fly
• Exposure to scale in an engineering/development environment
• Drive to deliver the best iOS experience imaginable
🚀 Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform & Firebase
• Experience designing, building, and releasing your own app
• Desire/ability to contribute to product design discussions