Staff Software Engineer at RBGlobal
Westchester, IL
$123,950–$154,880
Jul 19, 2026
Westchester, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on technical leadership role centered on the iOS side of a vehicle auction platform, where buyers search, bid, pay, and arrange delivery. The engineer will own the iOS architectural roadmap, set coding and release standards, run the CI/CD pipeline, and mentor a distributed team of iOS engineers, while collaborating closely with product, design, and backend .NET teams. Suits a seasoned iOS engineer with prior staff-level or equivalent leadership experience.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 560 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 120–1,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No work location or metro is specified in the posting; the role appears to be remote-friendly given the explicit mention of a distributed team across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations.
The JD requires 'at least 2 years operating at a Staff or equivalent technical leadership level' on top of 8+ years total iOS experience — this is a genuine Staff-level role by scope (cross-team architectural authority, mentoring distributed engineers, owning the full iOS roadmap), not merely a Senior with a long tenure requirement.
APNs is listed as the primary push notification platform; Firebase Cloud Messaging, SFMC, and Braze are named as alternatives/examples in the same requirement. SFMC and Braze are captured separately as preferred since they appear as 'marketing platforms such as' — i.e. optional examples rather than hard gates.
GitHub Actions and Xcode Cloud are listed as interchangeable CI/CD options ('or similar') under the required qualifications; captured as one skill with Xcode Cloud as an alternative.
The 'Coordinator/Router' pattern and Async/Await are mentioned in the required qualifications as part of iOS architectural patterns but name no distinct tool or framework — omitted per the generic-concept rule.
iOS accessibility APIs and WCAG compliance appear under the 'Bonus Experience' section and are not captured as named tools (no specific framework named beyond the standard iOS accessibility APIs).
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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