Senior iOS Contractor
Sling Money is a global money transfer application designed for simplicity and speed, powered by stablecoins on the Solana blockchain. It allows users to instantly send, receive, and move money worldwide, offering features like seamless cross-border transfers, instant peer-to-peer payments, and virtual bank accounts.
Funding
About Sling Money
Sling Money enables users to instantly send, receive, and move money globally. It offers seamless money management across personal accounts in over 140 countries and 40 currencies, instant payments using just a recipient's name, and the ability to open virtual US and European accounts. The platform is built on the Solana blockchain and uses stablecoins for faster, cheaper transactions than traditional banking. It caters to expats, remote workers, freelancers, and Web3 builders, providing a way to off-ramp from crypto to cash. Users have self-custody of their funds, which are accessible via any Solana wallet. Sling Money is regulated by the AFM in the Netherlands and registered with FinCEN in the US.
Skills
About the Role
You'll play a hands-on role in building and shaping our product and infrastructure. You'll join a small, experienced, and highly collaborative team on a contract basis, working across the UI and platform stack to design, build, and ship new features. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to craft a great user experience from concept through launch. You'll optimize the app's performance and reliability across a broad range of iOS devices, ensuring a smooth experience even on entry-level hardware, and improve and maintain core systems related to security and blockchain (Solana) integration. You'll participate in code reviews, testing, and iterative improvements to keep the codebase high-quality and scalable as the company grows.
Requirements
- Experience building high-quality consumer iOS apps at scale.
- Drive to build for millions of people, from the ground up.
- Good communicator, both verbally and in writing.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, both technically and organizationally.
- Enjoys owning problems end-to-end, from early exploration through to releasing things to customers.
- Able to ramp up quickly and work independently within an existing codebase and team, with minimal onboarding.
- Likes to share work early, happy to put something out there when it's ~70% done.
- Experience in fintech or the payments industry (bonus).
- Familiarity with GraphQL and the Solana blockchain or other blockchain technologies (bonus).
- Eye for smooth, delightful animations and UI polish (bonus).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship new features for the Morse iOS app, working across the UI and platform stack.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to craft a great user experience from concept through launch.
- Optimize the app's performance and reliability across a broad range of iOS devices.
- Improve and maintain core systems related to security and blockchain (Solana) integration.
- Participate in code reviews, testing, and iterative improvements to keep the codebase high-quality and scalable.