Senior Mobile Engineer iOS

Job description

Senior Mobile Engineer (iOS) - Remote First

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors.

We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery.

We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

We're seeking senior iOS/Swift engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.

As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver apps to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' mobile software delivery capability.

And, of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.

You should have extensive experience delivering apps on commercial projects (on the App Store), backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few.

A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.

This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client and the team to determine requirements and how best to deliver them leveraging fully the capabilities of the iOS platform, in accordance with its guidelines and idiomatic development patterns.
  
  
• Providing technical mobile leadership within their team.
  
  
• Delivery of software using agile/XP technical practices.
  
  
• Automation of build and App Store deployment.
  
  
• Demonstrating strong problem-solving skills.
  
  
• Mentoring client team members & advocating agile practices.
  
  
• Helping improve the team and client's delivery capabilities.
  
  

Required Skills

• Good understanding of UI design principles and platform specifics defined by Apple's Human
• Interface Guidelines.
  
  An ability to work closely with designers.
  
  
• 2 years minimum experience working with SwiftUI.
  
  
• Strong understanding and knowledge of the key Cocoa frameworks and iOS platform technologies.
  
  
• Highly effective at working in both OOP and FP programming styles in Swift 5.
  
  Leveraging language features to write idiomatic Swift code.
  
  
• Practical understanding of relevant architectures, patterns & principles for both UIKit and SwiftUI styles of development.
  
  
• Good understanding of server side APIs, HTTP & RESTful services adopting wherever practical a thin-client style approach.
  
  
• Good understanding on the memory management model of Android Java Runtime in order to implement memory efficient code.
  
  
• Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts.
  
  
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.
  
  
• Strong interpersonal skills including a desire to collaborate and knowledge-share with other team members, including client team members.
  
  This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.
  
  

Nice to have

• Building and running full end-2-end app CI/CD pipelines
• Working with VoiceOver and other iOS assistive technologies
• Asynchronous programming with GCD, Combine or Swift
• Developing and debugging apps developed in Obj-C

Experience tells us that there are no barriers to who has talent and ability.

So whatever your gender, race, sexuality, level of physical ability or stage of life; if you have the skills we're looking for we'd love to hear from you.

What the global Equal Experts network offers you

Right now, more than 3,000 consultants are helping to create leading digital products and services for scaleups, corporations and governments across 5 continents.

But that's just part of who we are.

We take as much pride in our 'EE' people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software for our customers.

3 ways we're different:

• We're more than a consultancy.
  We're a community.
  Our knowledge-sharing, problem-solving culture means you'll always have support from other experts in your field.
  
  Even if you're between contracts.
  
  
• All our people are highly experienced.
  Our consultants typically have at least 10 years' experience of solving difficult business problems – and often much more.
  
  It feels good to work with the best.
  
  
• We invest in a grown-up culture
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  You'll have the freedom and focus to stay hands on, and the autonomy to do your work well.
  
  

Read our values to check how well our professional approach aligns with yours:

Five-star working conditions

We're proud to have our working culture voted as one of the best in the UK in the 2020 'Glassdoor Top 20' (but we're focused on creating a great culture wherever we work) This approach has helped us to be recognized as a particularly flexible, satisfying place to work; Glassdoor rates us as one of the UK's best employers for work-life balance.

Work with the best, for the best Our work is varied and covers the entire spectrum of modern IT – everything from digital transformation programmes for major government departments, to award-winning mobile apps for renowned brands like O2.

The common thread is a need for faster, more flexible software

Other Perks for working for Equal Experts South Africa

● Remote First Culture

● Great leave benefits

● Competitive Salaries

● Profit Share

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