Software Engineer - iOS

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and iPad.

• Primary focus will be development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. 

• Commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.

• Writing maintainable, reusable and scalable code

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

• Good written and communication skills.

Desired Skills & Competencies

• At least 1 year of iOS experience using Swift.

• Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch, experience in Objective C is an added advantage.

• Extensive experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Location etc.

• Experience with offline storage, threading.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.

• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines.

• Good understanding of OSX/MacOS environment as part of a development environment.

• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{such as Git, Mercurial or SVN}}

• Familiarity with continuous integration.

• Excellent debugging skills.

• Good understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

• Experience integrating third-party libraries and APIs.

• Experience in using social media APIs.