Senior Staff iOS Engineer iOS Lead Ethena Pay
Ethena is a DeFi protocol enabling the creation of USDe, a synthetic dollar, and offering internet-native yield through staking.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Ethena
Ethena is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to mint USDe, a synthetic dollar, using liquid staking tokens as collateral. The platform also offers staking of USDe to earn yield in the form of sUSDe. Ethena aims to provide a stable, high-yield asset for the crypto ecosystem, combining the stability of a dollar-pegged token with the benefits of decentralized finance.
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About the Role
You will own the native iOS app end to end, from architecture and implementation through signing and release. You will build polished financial interfaces, manage authentication and App Store delivery, establish testing and quality standards, review iOS work, mentor engineers, and guide future mobile development.
Requirements
- Ship and maintain native iOS apps handling real money or sensitive financial data
- Demonstrate strong Swift and SwiftUI skills
- Understand modern concurrency state navigation performance and memory
- Provide examples of visually excellent shipped apps
- Use modern iOS design including Liquid Glass
- Integrate financial and authentication SDKs
- Handle Keychain biometrics tokens and personally identifiable information securely
- Own and evolve a large iOS codebase
- Use and verify agentic development workflows
Responsibilities
- Build and ship the majority of the Ethena Pay iOS app
- Own iOS architecture implementation and quality
- Manage certificates provisioning entitlements associated domains and App Store releases
- Own and document core app surfaces
- Enforce testing and visual quality standards
- Review iOS work and make technical decisions
- Set mobile direction and drive the roadmap
