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Software Engineer, iOS

Captions - New York, NY, USA - In-office - posted 2026-10-15

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Mirage is an AI video company building the next generation of creative tools. The company develops multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines for compositing video and graphics, and generative video models. Captions is their flagship creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video; Tesseract provides AI agents with native video-editing capabilities; and developers can integrate their models via APIs. The iOS team owns end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows, pushing the boundaries of what's possible on iOS by building sophisticated creative tools that combine delightful user interfaces, graphics rendering, and audio/video processing. As a small, collaborative team, product engineers have high ownership and agency. In this role, you will: - Push the boundaries of iOS and build products that shape the future of video software - Collaborate with designers and the broader team to conceptualize and ship incredible experiences directly to users - Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, scoping and delivering projects end-to-end - Instrument, A/B test, and iterate rapidly using production data The company is well-funded (raised $75M in Series B per TechCrunch, March 2026) and backed by top-tier investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and General Catalyst. Most roles require in-person presence at the NYC HQ in Union Square. REQUIREMENTS: - 2+ years of professional industry experience - Track record of shipping high-impact, native mobile products in production - Excellent engineering taste combined with strong practicality and time-management - Experience with SwiftUI, Combine, RxSwift, ReactiveSwift, AVFoundation, Core Animation, and/or Realm - Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures) PLUS (even better if): - Experience with OpenGL or Metal - Grounded, collaborative approach and willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team win - Background as a startup founder or early engineer at a startup

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