Sr.iOS Developer

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.  

As a Mobile developer you are required to work with a team of architects, and developers to create mobile applications.

·       Design and build applications for the iOS platform

·       Ensure the performance, quality, and knowledge of best practices

·       Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

·       Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·       Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

·       Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architecture, trends, and emerging technologies.

·       Solid understanding of the full mobile application development life cycle.

·       Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

·       Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.

·       Good communication skills. Should be able to discuss requirement for stake holders like, Product Owner and other Business stakeholders

·       Proficient with Swift 5 & above

·       Strong understanding of MVVM Architecture and should be able to demonstrate working experience

·       Strong knowledge of Design patterns

·       Strong with Auto layout and Storyboard for proficient user interface creation

·       Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·       Experience with Online/Offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

·       Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

·       Knowledge of UX standards

·       Should have experience with Unit Testing

·       Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

·       Review code, follow best practices for coding guidelines

·       Proficient with writing reusable code

·       Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics

·       Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git / SVN, Swift Package Manager, Cocoa Pods)

·       Familiarity with continuous integration

·       Knowledge of Appstore Deployment process/norms

·       Good knowledge of Certificate and Profile creations

·       Good knowledge of distribution builds for testing over TestFlight or similar distribution tools.

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 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.

ApnaComplex is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing PropTech disruptors within the Society & Apartment Management business.  The SaaS based B2C platform is headquartered out of India’s tech start-up hub, Bangalore, with branches in 6 other cities. It currently empowers 3,600 Societies, managing over 6 Lakh Households in over 80 Indian cities to effortless manage all aspects of running large complexes seamlessly.

If it excites you to - drive innovation, create industry-first solutions, build new capabilities ground-up, and work with multiple new technologies, ApnaComplex is the place for you.

The primary responsibility of this role is to design, develop, and maintain applications individually as well as work in a group. Should work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules and ensure to complete the assigned projects within allotted timelines and develop process improvements to improve system quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Should design, develop, and maintain applications individually as well as work in a group.
• Should maintain quality and security of the assigned development tasks applying the best design and development guidelines as defined in the project.
• Should work as per the defined project priorities and project schedules and ensure to complete the assigned projects within allotted timelines.
• Must adhere to agile methodologies and the project management followed in the project
• Assist in technical and project risk management and participate in mitigation activities.
• Interact with the team for the day to day development tasks and hurdles.

Must Have:

• Expertise in Objective-C programming language.
• Experience in Swift programming.
• Expertise in Cocoa Touch frameworks.
• Expertise in developing iOS applications.
• Very good experience in designing applications with best suited Design patterns.
• Should have a strong knowledge and experience in using SOLID principles.
• Good knowledge in socket programming, device communication.
• Good knowledge in debugging and optimization tools like Instruments.
• Good knowledge in Push Notifications.
• Good knowledge in generating ipa using different provisioning profiles
• Knowledge in pushing apps to AppStore.
• Knowledge in writing unit test cases.
• Good knowledge in iOS human interface guidelines and coding standards.
• Should have a very good experience in technically mentoring the team and assisting the team when required.
• Very Strong communication Skills and interpersonal skills
• Experience in working in projects run as per Agile Methodology.
• Must have very good analytical abilities and problem solving capabilities.
• 1 year of software development experience

Good to have:

• Good knowledge in Bluetooth programming.
• Good to have knowledge in Audio domain and related frameworks.
• Good to have knowledge in Database tools like Coredata Desired Tools Experiences
• Xcode IDE, Instruments.
• Experience in using client apps for version controlling systems like bitbucket.
• Experience in using UX/UI tools like Figma.
• Experience in Version controlling System (SVN, Github).
• Experience in Bug Tracking System (JIRA, QC etc..)

• Solution design documentation, development ownership, mentoring and driving the most comprehensive trade terminal for our super users for the iOS Mobile platform
• Ensuring the team adhere to the best industry technical practices and meet the business objective
• Ensuring responsiveness of the application
• Monitor reliability and performance metrics of the system to provide an impeccable experience to the user
• Co-ordinate with developers, testers and keeps the product manager well informed of the status of the development effort to senior managers
• Mentoring of the team
• Code review of team members and code quality ownership
• Collaborate with team, cross-functional teams to define and design new features
• Work with data sources, APIs, 3rd party SDKs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Work on bug identification and fixing
• Troubleshooting and triage of field issues
• Improving application performance
• App management and monitoring on iTunes
• Produce high-quality code and experience with security implementation
• identifying risks implementing security patches procedures
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in mobile development

• B.E., B.Tech., M.C.A. or equivalent technical qualification in Computer Science,
• Engineering or a related subject
• 7 to 10 years of proven software development experience in iOS development
• Experience in mentoring iOS developers
• Must experience with Swift
• Experience with Objective-C is a plus
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON must
• Experience with API integration, Third-party SDKs, Charts, Payment Gateway, Sockets is a plus
• Experience in HLD, LLD designing must
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Mobile Application security standards is a plus
• Experience in mobile app architecture, frameworks, design patterns must
• Experience in writing Unit Test cases is a plus
• Experience in performance measurement of application is plus
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Experience in using JIRA, TFS
• Experience of CI/CD pipeline with tools used for Code coverage, code bugs identification, test automation, GIT
• Experience in Firebase Crashlytics, Application Performance must
• Experience in driving scrum team and follow agile practices
• Fundamental knowledge of the BFSI sector is a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Project Estimation & Planning

• Architect, build & maintain beautiful, world-class, enterprise-grade mobile apps
• Build for multiple platforms (iOS, Android) using a single code base (ReactNative, Expo
  and CSS)
•  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop & ship new features
• Build and maintain tools and infrastructure to support the rapid development and testing of mobile apps

• Passionate about developing mobile apps for iOS and Android using JavaScript
• A mindset to do what it takes to not just get the job done but go above and beyond
• Quick learning mindset and a humble attitude
• Strong fundamentals in JavaScript, ES6, React, and CSS
• Good understanding and working knowledge of using REST APIs and handling errors
• Knowledge of functional programming.Understanding of how to build performant, decoupled, testable, maintainable code.
• Experience in writing native code for android and iOS to write bridges whenever required.
• Bonus: Entrepreneurial spirit and the mindset of challenging the status quo is a big plus
• Bonus: Experience with modern testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, react-testing-library).

• Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Working on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discovering, evaluating and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency

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