Senior iOS Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

What you’ll do

● Working closely with both engineering and

product teams

● Write well-designed, testable, efficient code

● Develop new features and cutting-edge user

experience

● Work on bug fixing, code optimisation and

performance improvements

● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge

cases, usability, and general reliability

● Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement

new technologies to maximise development

efficiency

● Code evaluation and managing the teammates

What you’ll bring

● 2-4 years of experience in iOS development.

● Proficiency in Swift programming, Cocoa,

XCode, unit test, mobile database, and the iOS

SDK

● Knowledge of design patterns (MVVM and

MVI)

● Understanding of dependency injection

frameworks

● Understanding of RxSwift, observable pattern

● Good knowledge of memory management,

concurrency, and multi-threading

● Good knowledge of OOPS, data structure and

algorithms

● Experience and passion to build great user

experience for iOS platforms

● Previous work experience at a startup would be

a plus

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford.

The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and realising the biggest reason for user churn being access to cheap and affordable internet access. From having worked on ground onboarding users and facing poor connectivity issues all the time, we took it on ourselves to fix the internet access problem for the common citizen.

At Wifi Dabba (YC W17), we are building a low cost, scalable & distributed Wi-Fi infrastructure to connect next billion users online. We do this by deploying a grid of lasers (Free Space Optics) over the cities & town and bring cheap and fast internet for everyone. We enable anyone to buy 1 gig of data access at a time at a price they can afford. Sachetization of internet access is the foundation to rebuilding internet for all. We do this by leveraging crypto and blockchain to truly make internet infrastructure ownership distributed — our vision is to be connectivity layer for the Web3 world.

• You will get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup.
• You get to define the future of telecom infrastructure ownership and operations.
• We’re a tight-knit team where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
• Opportunity to build for the next billion users.

• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science
• Experience architecting, developing, and testing iOS application code end-to-end
• Strong knowledge of iOS UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with AWS services
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience working with mobile analytics
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principals and application
• Knowledge of code versioning tools like GIT, SVN.
• Experience in building user interfaces for mobile apps.
• Participate in design discussions with business users, web producers and engineering teams.
• Perform requirements analysis, high-level design, effort estimation for new business requirements and feature enhancements.
• Write clean, concise, and sustainable code.
• Team player who enjoys collaborative effort.

• Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that)
• Customer-centric and passionate about working in a small & focused team
• Previous experience building/working in telecom software or infrastructure
• Previous experience building web3 project - DeFi / Blockchain infrastructure
• Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

• Advise and discuss with the team on the architecture and requirements.
• Bring your experience for mobile User Experience.
• Set up actions to ensure high level of quality and satisfaction
• Build and maintain efficient and reliable code.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics Engineering or similar
• Minimum of 4+ years work experience in similar roles
• Strong knowledge in Front-end frameworks (React Native)
• Strong knowledge in the mobile language (swift, objective-c, java, kotlin)
• Experience in unit testing and TDD.
• Advance knowledge in using testing frameworks ( Karma, Jest, Appium, Cypress ).
• Experience with Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD
• Having a coaching profile, good communication skills is crucial to ensure good exchange and sharing of information within and outside of the train
• Being able to provide based on the audience synthetic or detailed information is mandatory
• Being curious to continuously learn and being a leader in your domain of expertise
• Immediate or very low availability
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

Location:  Goregaon east, Mumbai

Requirement:
              We are looking for a skilled Developer with 2+ years of experience in mobile application development for iOS.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the core team to come up with new features and implementing them
• Work on new products and services and provide support to existing applications
• Integrate REST services into mobile applications and familiar with App localization technique

The ideal candidate must possess the following skills:

Functional: Swift, Objective-C, Xcode, Networking, Data Structures, GIT & JIRA, GCD, Core Data, OOPS, Design Patterns

Mandatory: Passionate about sports, Problem-solving, Team player, Target & Result oriented

Additionally, the candidate must demonstrate good communication skills and a solid understanding of cricket and football (among other sports).

• Build beautiful, user-friendly, performant, and effective new features
• Take ownership of the company’s iOS platform
• Continuously improve stability and performance of the company’s iOS platform
• Be the user’s voice and help make product decisions
• Deliver beautiful delightful user experiences
• Exhibits knowledge and behavior to adopt Information Security and Privacy practices at their work.

• You think iOS, design for iOS, build for iOS! Technical
• At least 1.5 - 3 years experience on native iOS platform using the Cocoa framework
• Proficiency with Swift and familiarity with Objective-C
• Experience with RxSwift or Combine framework is preferred
• Strong knowledge of iOS Frameworks like Core data, CoreAnimation, etc
• Expertise with Auto-layouts for UI development
• Experience building a modular code base in MVVM Team Building & Leadership
• Want to interact with all levels of the company including senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Love problem solving and thrive on handling multiple projects and tasks
• Foster strong professional relationships with the full organization