Senior iOS Developer

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features

What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support

What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.
• Desired Skills and Experience
• Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Building smooth UIs and designing responsive screens across both mobile platforms.
• Leveraging native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnosing and fixing bugs and performance bottlenecks.
• Reaching out to the open source communities to encourage and help implement mission - critical software fixes (React Native updates frequently and dependent libraries might break).
• Maintaining code and writing automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality. 

Skills Required:  

• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle
• Understanding of REST APIs and offline storage
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing
• Experience with Cl/CD and version control (i.e., GitHub) highly valued 
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar
• Strong communication skills: you possess the ability to communicate complex problems in a simple and effective way
• Have worked in an agile and fast-paced environment (ideally at an e - commerce or logistics company)
• Ready to join the team immediately

Desired Candidate Profile

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.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Capability to develop highly responsive applications and websites.
• Capability to find and fix bugs.
• Enhance the performance of an application close to a native one by removing the constriction.
• Capability to maintain code that is easy to understand.
• Write tests for automation so that the app can be tested easily.
• Capability to take advantage of native APIs for deep integration of all platforms.
• Capability to completely transcend a React Web App into a React Native one.

Skills

• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming.
• Complete familiarity with Javascript and capability to write script that is optimised and works perfectly.
• Capability to write Well-documented code with Javascript that is easily readable.
• Having the knowledge of third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts that might occur.
• Understanding of native build tools like Xcode, Gradle etc.
• Experience in testing with tools like Jest, Detox, Cypress etc.
• Knowledge about Offline Storage, REST APIs, and document request model.

• Candidate should be expertise in iOS technology.
• Experience with developing native Applications using Swift 3 , Xcode, Objective C, Cocoa and iPhone SDK.
• Built and published commercial iPhone and iPad applications
• Candidate must have independently designed and developed mobile applications
• independently drive the design and development of iPhone/iPad application project.
  Conceptualize and design Mobile applications based on need.
• Experience with Objective-C, JavaScript, and JSON
• Coursework in Object-Oriented programming languages (C++/Java, etc)
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines Animation, etc.
• Candidate can develop Mobile Apps and well-versed with the Android SDK.
• Have a good knowledge of Java Application development.

Zobaze is an early-stage startup, based out of THUB, Hyderabad.

Experienced developers who can develop Mobile Applications using Flutter.

Work closely with founders on building product.

Requirements -

Strong Knowledge on Dart

Experience in building Apps with flutter

Product mindset, ability to take product manager hat if required in the future.

Have to do multiple tasks if required

Stock Options ( ESOP )

Note: It's not a 9to5 job.

Lot to learn.