Senior IOS Developer

Job Description

Job Purpose:

The Senior iOS Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, building, testing, and deploying native iOS mobile applications across product line.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own end-to-end responsibility on projects of increasing complexity, from technical design through completion and deployment.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers, Web developers and backend developers to create seamless mobile experiences.
• Ensure optimal performance and scalability of the mobile applications by adhering to performance best practices.
• Participate in the entire development lifecycle from concept to release, including manual and automated testing phases.
• Conduct end-to-end testing and ensure performance optimization through Selenium- based automation.
• Write, maintain, and enhance test scripts for automated testing of iOS applications.
• Participate in full application lifecycle (concept, design, build, deploy, test, and release management).
• Write clean, correct code incorporating feedback from code reviews, consistently follow and enforce best practices.
• Leading and/or mentoring other developers, helping them improve their coding skills, work habits, and team collaboration.
• Exercise good judgment. Evaluate assignments/requests, properly prioritize tasks and/or projects, and solve problems under pressure of deadlines and resource constraints.
• Takes initiative, stays focused, always accountable. Thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to focus on achieving the target while minding longer term goals along the way.
• Collaborate on API contracts which are documented and agreed upon by multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong ability to present and defend technical and architectural choices persuasively.
• Investigate and prototype new technologies.
• Foreseeing future changes, lead the feature team to provide expandable and scalable solutions.
• Participate in cross-team engineering efforts such as improving code review system, build pipeline, monitoring, etc.

SKILLSET

• 8 + years of proven experience in iOS application development, using both Objective-C & Swift and Swift UI and mobile automation test development.
• UI development using both Storyboards, XIBs, and SwiftUI.
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics, and Core Text and Swift Concurrency.

• Integrate SwiftUI with Combine for reactive programming and data flow.

• Experience consuming RESTful APIs with iOS applications.

• Has experience working with large code bases and working with a shared REST API library.
• Understands iOS UX and works closely with the design team to ensure UI designs are aligned with the current iOS UI guidelines.
• Understands how to mock and provide end to end coverage for API components.
• Experience with offline storage, background processing, threading, and performance optimization.
• Understanding Apples design principles and interface guidelines.
• Understanding of the software and mobile development life cycle.
• Having published iOS app on the Apple App Store a plus.
• Interest and ability to learn different technology stacks as needed.
• Hands-on experience in QA automation testing using Selenium/Playwright or a similar framework is preferred.
• Comfortable working in a team environment following the Agile methodology.
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment to deliver well-designed, reusable, and high-quality code on time.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Understanding of Server-Driven UI principles and implementation strategies.
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs using Apollo or similar clients.