Software Engineer - iOS

PhonePe's app is used by more than 600 million registered people in India, which makes its iOS codebase one of the largest consumer mobile surfaces in the country. This is native iOS development on that app, and notably it is based in Pune rather than the Bangalore headquarters, which matters if you are already in Maharashtra and would rather not relocate. The posting asks for genuine depth rather than breadth: strong system design and architecture specifically for iOS, end to end exposure across the development lifecycle, and hands on experience with the modern stack. At this install base the hard problems are not features but performance, app size, release discipline and the long tail of edge cases that only appear when tens of crores of people with wildly different devices and network conditions use the same build. PhonePe's wider portfolio spans payments, insurance, lending and wealth products plus newer consumer businesses, so the app itself covers a lot of surface area.

What the posting requires

- 5 to 9 years of full time iOS app development, with strong fundamentals and end to end exposure
- Strong system design and architecture skills specifically for iOS, not general mobile experience
- Hands on experience with modern iOS technology: Swift, UIKit and SwiftUI, MVVM or VIPER architecture, Combine, Core Data and dependency injection frameworks
- Experience with unit testing and UI testing across full end to end app development
- Strong problem solving, plus what the posting describes as curiosity to tinker and explore new paradigms

Counts as a bonus, not a requirement

- Experience developing SDKs

Location and working pattern

Pune, which is unusual for PhonePe engineering roles and worth knowing if you are based in Maharashtra.

Also worth knowing

PhonePe lists medical, critical illness, accidental and life insurance, an employee assistance programme with an onsite medical centre, maternity and paternity benefits including adoption and day care support, relocation and transfer support, provident fund, gratuity and leave encashment, plus higher education assistance, car lease and a salary advance policy.

A good fit if

You are an experienced iOS engineer who wants consumer scale rather than enterprise app work, and you are interested in the problems that only appear at very large install bases.

Think twice if

You are earlier in your mobile career. The band starts at five years of full time iOS work specifically, so treat it as a target to grow toward rather than a stretch application. If you are a cross platform developer working mainly in React Native or Flutter, note that the requirements are consistently native.