About the role
About RA
Resident Advisor has been a home for electronic music culture since 2001. Event discovery, ticketing, news and long-form editorial, artist profiles, original films, and a weekly mix series two decades deep. Around 7 million people use the web platform every month, with a wider audience across our apps and other channels. Underneath the platform sits a network of contributors and city managers across dozens of cities, which is how we stay connected to the scenes we cover rather than reporting on them from a distance. RA is 25 years old, independent, B.Corp certified and intent on being indispensable to the artists, promoters and audiences who make this culture.
The role
You'll build features for the RA Guide iOS app from design to release, with support from the Apps lead and room to grow towards senior.
RA Guide is RA's app for browsing events and buying tickets, native on iOS and Android and used by thousands of people every day. We also make RA Scan, a cross-platform app promoters use to scan tickets at the door. You'll join the Apps team: the Apps lead (who also builds on iOS), an Android developer and a product manager, working closely with design and the web teams who build the APIs the app uses.
We release weekly. Native releases can't be rolled back once they're out, so we care about getting each one right: tests, careful review, and watching what happens after release.
Responsibilities
Build new features and improvements from designs and specs, and see them through to the App Store
Write testable Swift, with unit tests and UI tests alongside it
Fix bugs and crashes, using our monitoring to find what's hurting users most
Take part in code review, giving and getting feedback
Work with the product manager and designer to turn user needs into a polished experience
Use AI tools where they help, and check what they produce
Who we are looking for
Experience releasing an iOS app to the App Store, commercially or as substantial personal work
Solid Swift, and experience with UIKit or SwiftUI
You can take a feature from design to release with some guidance
You write code others can test and maintain
You work well with product, design and other developers
If you meet most of these but not all, we'd still like to hear from you. We'll help you grow into the rest.
Nice to have
SwiftUI
GraphQL
UI testing with XCUITest
A/B testing or phased rollouts
Android or cross-platform experience
An interest in electronic music and the scenes RA serves
What we offer you
Generous annual leave policies aimed at promoting work-life balance.
Matched pension, or 401k for US staff.
Comprehensive staff wellbeing initiatives, featuring regular activities and workplace programmes to support mental and physical health. This includes discounted ClassPass memberships and custom-fitted earplugs.
Company-led social events, team lunches, and discounts on merch.
Paid annual volunteering allowance, encouraging contributions to community projects and charities you care about.
A transparent internal company culture committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (see: https://ra.co/about/diversity).
Active involvement in community projects within the electronic music community (see: https://ra.co/about/community).
More about RA
We are independent and we intend to stay that way. 25 years in, RA answers to the culture it came from rather than to outside stakeholders. That is what enables us to make decisions on a long-term basis.
Our staff, contributors and international teams are not observers. They are part of the scenes we cover, and that is what we hire for. Craft first, and then a genuine stake in this music rather than just a job in it.
RA has been B Corp certified since 2024, which holds us to standards on social and environmental impact we would want to meet regardless of the badge.
We especially welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, experiences, gender identities, and sexual orientations.
Our values
Electronic music is art.
We celebrate the progressive values that underpin electronic music.
We advocate for a more inclusive and equitable electronic music community.
We honour the past, present and future of electronic music.
We use innovation to empower the community.
We choose honesty over gain and purpose over profit.
We're always front left.
This role is a full-time, fixed-term position, based in Berlin. Please note: this position requires applicants to be based in Berlin and to work from the office three days per week. The annual salary range for this role is €50,000 to €65,000. If you have questions about the role, please contact