Senior iOS Developer

Rupayya (www.rupayya.com) is looking for a passionate and skilled iOS Developer with 2–4 years of experience in building high-quality mobile applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Swift, a good understanding of iOS frameworks, and the ability to deliver scalable and performant applications.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced applications for the iOS platform using Swift / Objective-C
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UI/UX designers, backend developers, and product managers
• Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party libraries/services
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify and fix bugs, optimize performance, and improve code quality
• Participate in code reviews and follow best coding practices
• Maintain code versioning using tools like Git
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in iOS development

💡 Required Skills & Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in iOS development
• Strong proficiency in Swift (preferred) and/or Objective-C
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Core Data, Core Animation
• Familiarity with MVVM / MVC architecture patterns
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON parsing
• Knowledge of Auto Layout, Storyboards, and SwiftUI (preferred)
• Understanding of app lifecycle, memory management, and multithreading
• Experience with version control systems like Git

⭐ Good to Have

• Experience with SwiftUI and modern iOS development practices
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks (XCTest)
• Experience with Firebase, push notifications, and analytics tools
• Exposure to App Store deployment and guidelines

🎯 Key Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Attention to detail and performance optimization
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to work in an agile environment

🎁 What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge mobile technologies
• Flexible work environment
• Learning and growth opportunities
• ESOPs

We are looking out for an iOS Developer to join the Mobile team to take end to end ownership of our iOS Consumer App. We are looking out for someone who speaks fluent Swift and loves shipping and building beautiful, maintainable and scalable apps.

Requirements:

• You have 2-6 years of experience working with Swift and Objective-C whenever you encounter the pitfalls of Swift.
• Familiarity with MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER architectures.
• You have worked on 2-3 production apps with MAU's in the range of 25K+.
• You love getting your hands dirty and are dealing with legacy parts of the code bases.
• You have experience building projects from scratch as well as building on top of existing code bases.
• You have handled complex views ranging from Form Heavy views to Animation Heavy views.
• You have a strong bias towards action.

Good to have:

• Experience dealing with Location Data along with Mapping interfaces like Google Maps, Map Box or MapMyIndia.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, Automated Tests and Unit Testing.
• Experience with RxSwift, Alamofire, Kingfisher, Lottie, SwiftyBeaver, Firebase SDK, Clevertap SDK and ObjectMapper.
• Implementing designs w. r. t HCI guidelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Maintain clean coding practices
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Supporting product owners as required
• Providing support to the testing team during testing phases of the projects
• Contributing to solution proposals as required
• Creating work effort estimates as required
• Mentor, train on the best practices junior software associates and other team members.

Key Competencies (Functional):

• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks such as Core Data and Core Animation.
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines.
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
• Knowledge of C-based libraries.
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.

• Design and build applications for iOS platforms
• Ensure performance and quality of the application
• Collaborate with cross functional team to define and design the app
• Perform checks on correct functionality of app
• Integrate application with backend tools such as cloud, APIs and push notifications
• Responsible to help maintain code quality, organization and automation
• Responsible for providing prototypes and proofs of concepts
• Use encryption tools to safeguard content

• Expert in Objective-C or Swift programming
• UI and UX experience
• Proficiency with 2D and 3D graphics frameworks
• Experience with iOS frameworks
• Adept with benchmarking and modification
• Familiar with Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficiency with offline storage, threading and performance tuning
• Knowledgeable of clouds message API and push notifications_

About the Role

We, at upGrad, believe in giving ownership and responsibility to each one of the team members. As an iOS Developer, you will be a part of the iOS app development team and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code.

Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own end to end development and operations of high-performance software development team.
• Design the architecture and deliver clean, testable, and scalable code 
• Participate in requirement gathering and display a strong sense of ownership and delivery 
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by
• Participating in regular peer-reviews of solution designs and related code 
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

Skills Required

• Minimum 6 years of strong iOS development experience with at least 2 Apps Published on App Store of Enterprise Platform.
• Strong Swift concepts along with OOPS, Computer Science fundamentals, Memory Management, App Profiling experience.
• In depth understanding of frameworks like UIKit, Foundation classes, AutoLayout, Core Data, Networking, Collections, GCD, ARC.
• Solid understanding to write modular code, template based programming which is Unit testable (Critical Requirement)
• Solid understanding of iOS architectural patterns especially VIPER (and MVVM) and their importance in scalable software development process.
• Prior understanding of Git (must have), JIRA, Trello, Confluence, etc
• Experience in iOS UI creation using Storyboards, XIB and Code.
• Experience with standard libraries like RxSwift, Swinject, Alamofire, etc.
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams to work on different phases of the project.
• Knowledge about App Store, publishing an app and the common rejection reasons.