Junior iOS Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

Responsibilities:

• Work with our dynamic team on different projects (products & services) to build high quality mobile application
• Designing and building native mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform 
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Publishing application on App Store
• Debug and optimize code for performance and scalability
• Designing and implementing application updates. Turn feedback into custom solutions for client needs
• Create and maintain the technical documentation
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Stay up-to-date with the latest iOS technologies and advancements

Skills:

• Strong Knowledge & understanding about SWIFT and Objective C
• Strong Knowledge & understanding of executing projects in Xcode, OOPs concept
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and efficient code
• Familiar working with RESTful APIs, third party libraries and API, cloud message APIs and push notifications
• At least have published and managed 1 app in Appstore
• Knowledge and understanding in Dependency injection tool like dagger or similar
• Knowledge of Hybrid app development platforms will be preferred

Characteristics:

• Good communication skills across all platforms
• Creative mind-set – and the ability to approach a problem creatively
• Highly organized with the ability to work independently in a fast paced team environment
• Ability to work in a team in a transparent and entrepreneurial culture. 
• Self-motivated with initiative to reach challenging targets
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Positivity, focus and a winning mentality allied with kindness
• Curiosity, energy, creativity, and bravery with a strong desire to help to build the o2h culture

Job Description:-

We are looking for an IOS developer responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of IOS devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. Your primary focus will be the development of IOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of the quality product is essential.

Responsibilities:-

• Design and build applications for the IOS platform.
• 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.

Skills:-

• Proficient with Objective-C or Swift, and Cocoa touch
• Experience with IOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect IOS applications to back-end services.
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX Standards.
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred.
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments and Shark, depending on project needs.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial or SVN.
• Familiarity with continuous Integration.

• Designing and building advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Unit-test coding for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline
• 3-6 years Android app development experience
• Strong hands on experience in developing high performance mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of Java, Kotlin, Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as touch
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometer
• Experience in BLE and BT
• Good understanding of unit, system and end to end testing and automation of mobile applications / Android applications
• Familiarity with the MVC and MVVM design patterns
• Knowledge of the open-source ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience building, testing and distributing native apps that consume RESTful services
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GIT
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly    

Location      : Baner, Pune

Notice period : Immediate to 30 Days

• Proven software development experience
• Proven working experience in iOS development
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Swift
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
• Have published at least one app in the Store
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Knowledge of JNI, security algorithms
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of the mobile development life cycle
• Good to have: Experience in working on cross platform UI framework such as React Native or Cordova.