Senior iOS Developer

### Responsibilities:

* Collaborative Development:

 - Work closely with Product, UX/UI, and Backend teams to design, build and extend consumer facing products, platforms, and features.

* Reusable Components:

 - Develop reusable iOS software components for our platform, ensuring modularity and maintainability.

* Continuous Integration and Delivery:

 - Collaborate with QA to implement CI/CD pipelines for automated and manual testing, ensuring app releases maintain high standards.

* Performance Monitoring:

 - Monitor the performance of live apps, continuously improving code quality and user experience.

* Innovation and Evaluation:

 - Stay updated with new mobile methodologies and technologies, evaluating their potential integration into our development process.

### Requirements:

* Proven Experience:

 - Demonstrated experience in developing mobile applications, specifically on the iOS platform using Swift.

* Modern Development Practices:

 - Up-to-date knowledge of modern iOS programming paradigms and experience with native app development.

* API and SDK Expertise:

 - Experience in API design, SDK architecture, and the mobile software lifecycle development practices.

* UX/UI Design:

 - Strong exposure to UX/UI design with experience in creating intuitive apps with pixel-perfect interfaces.

* Computer Science Fundamentals:

 - Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.

* Methodologies:

 - Familiarity with SDLC and Agile methodologies.

* Startup Experience:

 - Prior experience working in a startup environment is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Develop and maintain high-quality Android applications using Kotlin programming language.
• Design, build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Work with external data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Android development using Java and Kotlin.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, and Material Design.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and XML.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming, software design patterns and algorithms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

What do we need?

We are looking for a Flutter developer to join us as an intern as soon as possible. We operate through mobile and web apps. You will be one among the initial team of core developers using technology to delight customers. 

What will you do?

• Architect, design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable, reusable software 
• Help us build an awesome backend for our mobile apps
• Work on feature development, designing solutions and deployments etc

What you must have.

• Have built two or more iOS/Android apps in Flutter
• knowledge of Dart
• Experience with third-party analytics and marketing SDK’s like Firebase, and Clevertap.
• Experience with integration of Admob or Facebook Audience network experience with Git, Jenkins, or other version control tools
• Ability to write readable code, create extensive documentation for existing code, and refactor the previously written code into a readable state.
• Experience in developing Location Based Services 
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON 
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs 
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies 
• Should be aware of platform-independent mobile application development trends/tools 

Responsibilities: 

• Work with an open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks. 
• Work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products.  
• Build reusable iOS software components for the platform.  

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.   
• Work on bug fixing to improve application performance and shipping new features as required 
   

  Requirements:  

• Experience with iOS Design patterns, memory management, REST web-services and JSON Parsing. Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform 
•  Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features 

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance  
• Can integrate apps with backend and 3rd party API’s. 
• Good programming skills in Objective-C/Swift and extensive knowledge of Apples SDKs and frameworks like Core Data, Core Graphics, Foundation, UIKit, etc.  
• Have published one or more applications in an iOS App Store. 

• Knowledge of iOS App Store deployment process. 

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

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 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 quality products is essential.

• 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

• Proficient with 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
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools 
• Familiarity with continuous integration