SDE4-ios

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Solutions Architect for Mobile App to lead the architecture strategy for Ralph Lauren’s enterprise mobile app and connected digital commerce experiences. This strategic role combines deep mobile engineering expertise, omni-channel solution design, and strong leadership influence to establish scalable architecture patterns, reusable capabilities, and consistent engineering standards across native app, mobile web, desktop web, CMS, commerce services, and partner channels. The successful candidate will partner closely with Product, Program, UX, platform engineering, backend services, QA, DevOps, release management, and implementation partners to deliver high-performing, secure, maintainable, and customer-focused mobile commerce solutions. This role will act as the senior architecture advisor for mobile app initiatives, helping teams make sound technical decisions, promote reuse across channels, and align mobile app architecture with broader multi-channel and omni-channel commerce priorities. The role requires a collaborative leader who can influence without relying solely on direct authority, mentor engineers and technical leads, communicate complex architecture concepts to leadership stakeholders, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, partnership, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration - Provide senior technical leadership across mobile app initiatives, partnering with Product, Program, UX, backend services, CMS, QA, DevOps, Release Management, Performance, and implementation partners. Mentor engineers and technical leads across North America, India, and partner teams, fostering a culture of accountability, reuse, engineering discipline, continuous learning, and technical excellence. Communicate architecture direction, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership, stakeholders, and delivery teams. Influence technical decisions across multiple teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority. Technical Architecture & Strategy Mobile App Architecture Leadership Define and evolve scalable, secure, high-performance mobile app architecture across React Native hybrid, Swift iOS, Android Kotlin, commerce services, CMS, and shared experience layers. Act as solution architect and technical advisor for enterprise mobile app and digital commerce initiatives. Establish reference architectures, reusable integration patterns, shared libraries, performance guardrails, release-readiness criteria, and observability expectations. Partner with platform architects, backend principals, mobile engineering managers, and delivery leaders to align technical direction with business priorities. Platform Development & Engineering Excellence Provide hands-on technical guidance to mobile app and digital commerce engineering teams on architecture, code quality, scalability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability. Guide implementation of reusable UI patterns, shared components, design system governance, and Storybook practices across app and web channels. Manage integration strategies between Contentful CMS, mobile app services, APIs, authentication, personalization, analytics, and mobile app experience layers. Drive adoption of CI/CD practices, automated testing expectations, architecture review discipline, release governance, and engineering playbooks.

Multi-Channel & Omni-Channel Solution Design Lead solution design that connects mobile app experiences with broader multi-channel and omni-channel commerce capabilities. Promote reuse of capabilities, components, APIs, content models, and experience patterns across native app, mobile web, desktop web, and partner channels. Drive consistency in how product groups design and build customer experiences across channels while preserving flexibility for channel-specific needs. Support modernization from channel-specific implementations toward shared, API-driven customer experience capabilities.

Delivery & Product Partnership

Partner closely with Product and Program leadership on enterprise-scale mobile app and digital commerce initiatives. Translate business goals into pragmatic architecture approaches, technical options, and implementation guidance that enable predictable delivery. Provide regular architecture updates, risk assessments, dependency visibility, and technical recommendations to stakeholders. Support delivery teams with technical guardrails while maintaining clear separation between architecture ownership and day-to-day feature delivery management.

Required Technical Expertise

Mobile App Architecture - Proven experience designing enterprise mobile app solutions across React Native hybrid, Swift iOS, Android Kotlin, native integrations, performance, observability, and release-readiness practices.

Mobile Commerce Capabilities - Strong understanding of mobile shopping experiences, product discovery, cart and checkout flows, customer account features, loyalty, personalization, push notifications, analytics, and order-related journeys.

Multi-Channel Experience Architecture - Experience designing reusable capabilities and shared experience patterns across native app, mobile web, desktop web, CMS, and partner channels.

CMS & Content Integration - Experience with Contentful or similar CMS platforms, content modeling, localization, content delivery, and front-end consumption patterns.

Engineering Standards - Ability to define architecture principles, coding standards, testing expectations, performance budgets, documentation practices, and reusable engineering playbooks.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

12+ years of software development experience with a strong focus on mobile app, digital commerce, or customer experience platforms.

5+ years in technical leadership, solution architecture, or principal engineering roles.

Deep experience with mobile app development, API-driven integrations, CMS-enabled experiences, and enterprise commerce platforms. Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions across distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for executive, product, and engineering audiences. Proven ability to build trust, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, manage technical ambiguity, and drive alignment in a matrixed organization.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant technical field.

Experience in retail, luxury retail, fashion, digital commerce, or global direct-to-consumer platforms.

Experience with enterprise mobile app programs, app store release processes, mobile analytics, performance optimization, and integrations with modern API platforms.

Experience with design systems, Storybook, shared component libraries, reusable UI patterns, and cross-channel governance. Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps practices, automated testing, release governance, observability, and cloud-based delivery models. Background in performance optimization for high-traffic mobile app and digital commerce experiences.

Strategic Impact

This role will play a key part in shaping the next generation of Ralph Lauren’s mobile app and digital commerce capabilities. By strengthening mobile app architecture, improving reuse across channels, and driving consistent omni-channel solution patterns, the Solutions Architect for Mobile App will help accelerate delivery, improve platform quality, reduce duplication, and enable more scalable customer experiences across the enterprise. The role will also strengthen collaboration between architecture, engineering, product, and delivery teams while raising the technical maturity of the broader Digital Commerce organization.

Job Opportunity: iOS Developer at FrontM

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 3–6 years

Education: B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science or related field

Salary: Above market standards

Career growth: Long-term opportunity with potential to evolve into lead mobile architect roles

About FrontM

FrontM builds software solutions for frontline workforces, with a strong focus on the maritime industry. Our platform supports mobile, web and specialised onboard use cases, including communication, collaboration, welfare, learning, healthcare and operational tools.

The platform is used in remote and bandwidth-constrained environments, so our mobile applications must be reliable, lightweight and carefully optimised.

Role Summary

As an iOS Developer, you will build and maintain core features of the onship iOS application.

You will work on scalable iOS architecture, real-time communication features, messaging, notifications, media experiences and performance optimisation for environments with limited connectivity.

This role requires strong iOS fundamentals, hands-on experience with Swift and Objective-C and the ability to build reliable applications for iPhone and iPad users.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development — 60%

• Develop and maintain iOS applications using Swift and Objective-C
• Build responsive, clean and reliable iOS user interfaces
• Implement messaging, notifications, calling, video calling and media-related features
• Integrate REST APIs, WebSockets and real-time communication services
• Optimise app behaviour for low bandwidth and intermittent connectivity
• Maintain compatibility across supported iOS and iPadOS versions
• Work with product, design and backend teams to deliver stable features

Platform & Architecture Development — 25%

• Design and maintain reusable iOS components
• Implement modular architecture for scalable feature development
• Work with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, SwiftUI, Foundation, AVFoundation and Core Data
• Integrate third-party SDKs where required
• Improve application performance, memory usage and startup time
• Support secure authentication, token handling and local storage
• Contribute to build, release and deployment processes

Reliability, Performance & Quality — 15%

• Write unit tests and UI tests
• Perform code reviews and maintain code quality standards
• Diagnose crashes, memory leaks and performance bottlenecks
• Use profiling and debugging tools such as Instruments, Xcode Debugger and Console
• Support App Store and enterprise distribution releases
• Maintain clear technical documentation where required

Required Technical Skills

iOS Development

• Strong experience with Swift
• Working knowledge of Objective-C
• Strong understanding of iOS SDK and Apple development ecosystem
• Experience with UIKit and/or SwiftUI
• Good knowledge of iOS app lifecycle, background modes and permissions
• Experience with push notifications and deep linking

Networking & APIs

• REST API integration
• WebSocket-based communication
• JSON parsing and API error handling
• Offline handling, retry logic and network state management
• Secure handling of authentication tokens and local data

Communication & Media Features

• Experience with audio/video calling features
• Familiarity with VoIP push notifications
• Experience with CallKit is a plus
• Experience with AVFoundation or WebRTC is a plus
• Experience with messaging, chat or real-time communication apps is preferred

Performance & Platform Knowledge

• iOS lifecycle and memory management
• App performance profiling using Instruments
• Debugging crashes and production issues
• App optimisation for low bandwidth environments
• Experience deploying apps through App Store Connect and enterprise distribution

Tools & Development Practices

• Xcode
• Git
• CocoaPods and/or Swift Package Manager
• CI/CD pipelines for iOS builds
• Firebase, Crashlytics or similar crash reporting tools
• Agile development practices

Personal Attributes

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail in UI behaviour and performance
• Ability to work independently and ship reliable code
• Clear communication and collaborative mindset
• Comfortable working in fast-moving engineering teams
• Willingness to work on real-world operational use cases

Why join FrontM?

Long-Term Career Growth

Opportunity to work on complex mobile platforms used across global operations, with scope to grow into senior engineering or mobile architecture roles.

Engineering Challenges That Matter

Build mobile applications that need to work reliably in remote environments, limited connectivity and demanding operational conditions.

Meaningful Impact

Your work will directly support frontline professionals by improving access to communication, information and operational tools.

Apply Now

Join a team focused on building reliable software for real-world use cases and contribute to technology used across the global maritime workforce.

Software Engineer - Mobile (SDE 3)

Own mobile features from architecture to production.

AbleCredit builds software for complex enterprise workflows where AI, APIs, business rules, human decisions, and real-world operations have to work together reliably. We care about building products that work in production - not just in demos. Our mobile applications operate in the real world: variable networks, device fragmentation, media capture, background work, permissions, and workflows that cannot simply fail when connectivity does. We're looking for an engineer who can independently own substantial parts of that experience.

What You'll Own?

• Design and ship major mobile features end-to-end, from technical design through production rollout.

• Build reliable experiences around camera, audio, media upload, location, permissions, and device capabilities.

• Design for poor connectivity, retries, offline behavior, background execution, and interrupted workflows.

• Own API integration, local state, caching, persistence, and synchronization patterns.

• Improve app startup time, responsiveness, battery/network usage, crash rate, and overall reliability.

• Build observability into mobile features and debug issues across device, network, and backend boundaries.

• Contribute to mobile architecture, testing strategy, release engineering, and technical standards.

• Mentor junior engineers and interns through reviews and design discussions.

What We're Looking For?

• 5+ years building production mobile applications.

• Strong experience with Android/Kotlin, iOS/Swift, Flutter, React Native, or comparable mobile stacks.

• Deep understanding of mobile lifecycle, networking, concurrency, persistence, and performance.

• Experience shipping and supporting applications through production releases.

• Strong debugging skills using device logs, profiling, crash reporting, and network inspection.

• Good API design instincts and ability to reason about backend/mobile contracts.

• Ability to independently turn ambiguous product requirements into robust technical solutions.

Nice to Have

• Media capture or real-time audio/video experience.

• Offline-first or field-workforce applications.

• Mobile security, encryption, device integrity, or secure storage.

• Native module/bridge development in a cross-platform application.

• Experience with mobile CI/CD, automated testing, staged rollouts, and release observability.

How We Build?

Mobile is not a thin client. We treat device behavior, network reliability, telemetry, performance, and release safety as core engineering concerns. Engineers own what they ship after it reaches production.

Experience and Required Skill Sets: 

1      Solid experience in software design and development using Microsoft ASP.NET framework, C#, Visual Studio, and in writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code

2      5+ years of experience in WCF, WPF, VB.NET, SQL Server, JQuery, Angular 10 and above.

3      5+ years of experience in developing highly scalable REST/Web APIs

4      5+ years of experience in developing highly efficient SQL/NoSQL Queries

5      5+ years of experience in Relational and Document databases

6      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

7      Experience in using the MVC framework, working knowledge in APIs, and Service Oriented Architecture

8      Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and possess strong fundamental design principles for building a scalable application.

9      Experience in Angular version 10 and above is required 

10   Expert in SQL programming & Database Design (Stored procedure, Function, Trigger, Constraints, Replication) 

11   Strong ability in HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, DOM)

12   Development experience with data integration technologies including REST, SOAP, JSON, XML

13   Expertise in programming and usage of any unit testing framework. Expertise in integration testing and continuous integration.

14   Experience working in a DevOps environment will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities: 

•       Ability to create complex, enterprise-transforming applications that meet and exceed client expectations. 

•       Responsible for the bottom line. Strong project management abilities. Ability to encourage the team to stick to timelines.

•       Follow best-in-class coding practices and review the solutions vis-à-vis the requirements and technical specifications.

•       Should demonstrate strong client interfacing capabilities like emails and calls with clients in the US/UK

• Experience in Core Java, CXF, Spring. 
• Experience in spring boot, microservices. 
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications. 
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database 
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development 
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets 
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux 
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java 
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.