iOS Engineer - Design System

Overview

About the team: As an iOS Engineer on the Design System team, you'll translate SumUp's design language into a reusable, easy-to-use library of UI components and experience patterns, empowering product teams to build cohesive, accessible user experiences at scale. The Design System team works hand-in-hand with the Mobile Platform team to set standards and provide guidance across all product teams a

What you'll do

• About the team: As an iOS Engineer on the Design System team, you'll translate SumUp's design language into a reusable, easy-to-use library of UI components and experience patterns, empowering product teams to build cohesive, accessible user experiences at scale.
• The Design System team works hand-in-hand with the Mobile Platform team to set standards and provide guidance across all product teams at SumUp.
• As we expand our ecosystem of merchant and consumer-facing products, this role offers a rare opportunity to shape the foundation that helps developers build faster and ship higher-quality experiences to millions of users worldwide.
• What you'll do: Shape the core experience for both users and developers interacting with SumUp's iOS ecosystem Collaborate closely with product and design teams to build components that are maintainable, consistent, and beautiful Embed accessibility best practices into every component, from content descriptions and touch target sizing to color contrast and dynamic type Provide hands-on technical guidance to product teams to deliver on company priorities, including the upcoming brand refresh Review code contributions, enforce design system conventions, and mentor engineers on best practices for reusable UI development Lead the migration of legacy UIKit-based components to SwiftUI while maintaining system stability Proactively identify and address technical debt to uphold a high bar for engineering excellence and codebase health You'll be a great fit for this role if you: Bring 3+ years of professional iOS development experience, ideally on large-scale or consumer-facing applications Are fluent in Swift, with deep hands-on knowledge of both SwiftUI and UIKit, and a clear view on when and how to use each Bring experience building or contributing to a design system, component library, or shared UI framework, and understand what it takes to make components truly reusable and scalable Take pride in crafting accessible user experiences, you know your way around VoiceOver, dynamic type, color contrast, and touch target standards, and treat accessibility as a first-class concern, not an afterthought Bring a strong grasp of testing best practices for UI components, including unit tests, snapshot tests, and UI automation Are comfortable reviewing code and mentoring peers, you enjoy sharing knowledge, giving constructive feedback, and raisin.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Swift, AWS, iOS, Scala.
• Experience level: 3+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Berlin, Germany.

Skills