Hire iOS developers

Our Swift developers have logged around 32,600 hours across ten client products. Two of them dominate that total and say the most about how we work: a schools content platform we have staffed with four iOS engineers since 2022 and are still on, and an agritech app we ran with four for four years. Both are apps that shipped, kept shipping, and had to survive OS releases — not prototypes.

Our closed iOS roles have taken a median of 43 days from brief to signed offer, across five hires. That is the number to plan against when we recruit for you. When a Swift developer is already between engagements it is days rather than weeks, and we will tell you on the first call which situation you are in.

It works when the same people stay on the app across releases. iOS punishes rotation harder than backend work does: every autumn brings an OS version, a deprecation, and a review-guideline change, and a team that has been through that cycle with your app handles it in days. Ask how long a vendor keeps engineers on one product. Our longest iOS engagements have run with the same core team since 2022.

More than writing Swift. Getting an app into the store and keeping it there is its own body of work, and it is where inexperienced teams lose weeks.

• Swift and SwiftUI or UIKit, depending on the minimum OS version you need to support.
• App Store submission, review responses, and phased release management.
• Device and OS-version coverage, including the older hardware your users actually have.
• Push notifications, in-app purchases, and the entitlement work each requires.
• Crash reporting and release monitoring after launch, not just before it.

Native when the app leans on the platform: camera, background processing, HealthKit, heavy graphics, or a UI that must feel unmistakably iOS. React Native when you need one team to ship two platforms and the app is largely screens over an API. We staff both, and we have built products where a React Native shell carries most screens with native modules for the parts that need them.

One to four engineers, which is the range our iOS work actually sits in. A single senior developer is enough for a focused app with a clear backlog; four makes sense when iOS is the primary surface of the product and there is a release train to keep. We staff to the work, and the team can shrink once the app is in maintenance rather than staying on the invoice.