Senior App Engineer

Location: Remote or Chattanooga, TN

Type: Full-time

Team Size: Small, high-impact product team

We help families preserve the things that only exist once.

From VHS tapes and film reels to printed photos, negatives, slides, DVDs, camcorder cassettes, memory cards, and phones, we digitize the media that matters most so families can revisit and share those moments for generations to come.

But we believe the future of Legacybox is much larger than digitization alone.

We are building a long-term family memory platform designed to help families preserve, organize, explore, and share their history together.

We are not in the digitization business. We are in the irreplaceable business.

We are hiring a Senior Mobile & TV Platform Engineer to help transform Legacybox from a web-first product into a native, multi-screen family memory experience.

This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, platform architecture, video/media systems, and consumer experience.

You will lead the technical evolution of our customer experience across native iOS and companion TV platforms, helping families engage with their memories in the places where they naturally relive them: on their phones, on the couch, and together as a household.

That means helping us build and scale experiences across:

• native iPhone and iPad apps
• Apple TV (tvOS)
• smart TV platforms (Roku, Android TV / Google TV, Fire TV, Samsung, or similar)
• media playback and long-form video experiences
• photo browsing and memory viewing experiences
• account, family, and multi-user experiences
• cross-platform architecture and shared logic
• performance-sensitive playback, storage, and sync systems

This is not a traditional app maintenance role.

We are looking for someone who understands that our product is not just software. It is how families experience irreplaceable memories together.

• Help translate our web application into a best-in-class native iOS experience
• Build and improve iPhone and iPad experiences that feel fast, intuitive, and deeply polished
• Define where native experiences should differ from web, rather than simply replicating screens
• Improve performance, offline resilience, responsiveness, and platform-native behavior

• Architect and launch companion TV applications across priority platforms
• Create simple, elegant playback experiences for home videos, photos, and shared family memories
• Design for lean-back, remote-first interaction patterns
• Help make Legacybox a product families experience together, not just individually

• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term architecture decisions
• Identify what should be shared across platforms vs. purpose-built natively
• Improve reliability around APIs, authentication, media handling, caching, and sync
• Help establish scalable engineering patterns for mobile and TV products

• Improve long-form video playback, chaptering, scrubbing, and discovery
• Build rich photo and memory browsing experiences
• Optimize performance for large media libraries and asset-heavy experiences
• Ensure speed, reliability, and polish across lower-bandwidth or constrained environments

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams
• Contribute to engineering culture, code quality, testing, and release rigor
• Help us move fast without creating fragile systems
• Raise the bar for craftsmanship across all customer-facing software

• 5 years experience in iOS, mobile, connected-device, or consumer platform engineering
• Strong experience building native iOS applications using Swift and modern Apple frameworks
• Experience shipping production-grade apps to the App Store
• Experience with video, media playback, streaming, or large asset-heavy interfaces
• Strong systems thinking around architecture, performance, and scalability
• Comfort working across frontend, API integration, and product decisions
• Ability to independently drive initiatives from concept through launch
• High craftsmanship and strong attention to UX detail
• Experience working in small, fast-moving product teams

• Experience with tvOS, Roku, Android TV, Fire TV, or Smart TV ecosystems
• Experience designing shared cross-platform architectures
• Familiarity with React-based or web-first products transitioning to native
• Experience with media libraries, storage systems, sync, or offline-first behavior
• Experience with subscriptions, consumer SaaS, or DTC products
• Familiarity with video chaptering, playback UX, or rich media browsing

• Legacybox launches a best-in-class native iOS experience
• Families can enjoy memories naturally across phone, tablet, and TV
• Media playback becomes faster, more stable, and more delightful
• Large memory libraries feel responsive and easy to navigate
• Engineering standards improve across mobile and customer-facing architecture
• The app becomes more central to the long-term customer relationship
• Legacybox evolves from a web product into a true multi-platform family memory experience

We respect your time and keep our process focused and efficient:

Get to know each other. Discuss your experience, platform expertise, and what you’re looking for.

Walk through past systems, apps, architecture decisions, and tradeoffs.

A domain-relevant challenge focused on product thinking, platform architecture, or media experience design.

Meet the team. Discuss collaboration style, ownership, and how you work cross-functionally.

Talk about comp, logistics, and next steps. If we’re both excited, we’ll make an offer.

Total time commitment: ~4–5 hours spread over 2–3 weeks

Competitive salary based on experience and location.

• Health insurance – Medical, dental, vision (100% premium covered for employee)
• 401(k) matching – We match contributions
• PTO – Actually encouraged to use it
• Remote work – Work from anywhere in the US
• Professional development – Conference tickets, courses, books
• Latest equipment – MacBook Pro, external monitors, accessories

• Flexible hours – Core overlap time, but otherwise work when you’re most productive
• Quarterly team offsites – In-person collaboration and team building
• Free Legacybox service – Digitize your own family memories

This is a rare opportunity to help define how families experience memory in the next era of Legacybox.

We believe preserving memories is only the first step. The bigger opportunity is helping families relive, organize, explore, and share those memories across devices, generations, and living spaces.

You will help shape the transition from a web-first archive into a multi-platform product where memories are experienced naturally on phones, tablets, and TVs.

That means solving meaningful technical challenges around media, scale, playback, architecture, and shared family experiences — all in service of something deeply human.

We embrace a flexible approach to work. Many of our team members are fully remote, and we value results, communication, and craftsmanship above location. We also take great pride in our hometown of Chattanooga and our facilities there, where millions of irreplaceable family memories are carefully handled, digitized, and preserved.

Whether working from home or visiting in person, you’ll be part of a team deeply rooted in quality, trust, and care. You’re always welcome in Chattanooga.