Senior IOS Developer
Overview:
The Senior iOS Developer plays a Critical role in creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery. The Senior iOS Developer’s role is to lead the efforts to plan, design, develop and launch efficient systems and solutions in support of core organizational functions. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve issues, opportunities or problems to enhance the benefit of IT and Business investments. The Senior iOS Developer is highly experienced and has decision-making authority. The Senior iOS Developer is self – sufficient, requires no direct supervision, and mentors/coaches’ others through their extensive knowledge/experience across multiple technologies and business area.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the business and IT to prepare and program various projects related to the latest Mobile technologies
- Deliver across the entire app life cycle from concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
- Possess a deep knowledge of iPhone frameworks. Deliver innovative iOS mobile experiences across the different functions
- Understand back-end system/services to access when building out fronts for testing
- Ability to creatively architect and design programs to meet the goals and requirements of various projects
- Quickly integrate and update projects
- Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing project tasks on schedule and by interacting with other developers
- These solutions are critically important and crucial to various front-end as well as server-based applications
- Provide technical insight on existing mobile platforms to improve performance, availability and utilization optimizations
- Performs research and development to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential to optimize the platform
- Evaluate, suggest and implement third party software as needed.
- Make efficient use of source control and bug tracking systems
- Reviews estimates for software development and delivery to ensure quality and accuracy
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
- Partner with the business and IT teams to test and iterate on developed software and programs
- Prepare projects for hand-off and deployments as “proof concepts” move to production
- Ability to quickly adapt to changes and learning from field testing
- Participate in mentoring and skills transfer to junior members of the team
- Participate in software code reviews to ensure the creation of high-quality, robust code by all team members
- Provide tier 3 support to all the Mobile platforms as and when required
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems and/or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in mobile application design, development, installation and modification of software
- Experience developing native iOS Apps: Swift, iOS SDK, and XCODE
- Experience in Multithreading programming and mobile memory management
- Working knowledge of mobile networking stack and client-side persistent data store
- Experience integrating with RESTful API’s and JSON
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
