Sr. iOS Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Skills

• Proficient with Objective-C or Swift.
• 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
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• Familiarity with continuous integration

Education Qualification:

• Undergraduate in Engineering related to Computer Science and Information Technologies and Postgraduate in Computer Science
• Shouldn’t have Backlog or Arrear.
• Must have completed at least 3 month course.

Job Description:

• Strong working experience in IOS application development is a must. First-hand experience of native mobile apps using Swift must.
• Experience with Swift, RxSwift, Swift UI, and Unit tests.
• Strong system design and architecture skills - specifically for IOS. Curiosity to tinker around, explore new paradigms and strongest for continuous improvement. Strong problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of network connections, Rest API'sand scheduling. Strong knowledge of security standards (e.g. HTTPS) and privacy standards.
• Idea/experience of the unit and instrumentation testing in IOS. Optimizing app performance and memory consumption.
• Leveraging community libraries to efficiently complete development tasks.
• Debugging apps using simulators and related tooling.
• Persisting data for offline-first apps using databases such as Realm.
• Localizing apps to support multiple languages and regions, vernacular libraries and fonts.
• Familiar with Version control systems such as GIT.

Roles and Responsibilities for Android Developer(2-4yrs)

• Creating Android Apps using native technologies set Java, Kotlin, Android studio.
• Developing, releasing, and maintaining Android Applications and also coordinate and participate in the backend coding, API development, and testing.
• Ability to participate in the design process also, be able to understand user experience and work with design team accordingly.
• Good understanding of the latest Android features and libraries such as Retrofit, Volley, SQLite, RxJava.
• Good understanding of designing architecture such as MVC, MVP, MVVM.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, SDK integration, Firebase, and Analytics platforms.
• Good Knowledge in OO design, JAVA, Kotlin, RESTful APIs, JSON, Android SDK, Eclipse and Android Studio and also AWS.
• Knowledge of SQLite, Graph & Chart API and other Google APIs and UI & UX designing.
• Optimizing performance for the apps and keep up to date on the latest industry trends in the mobile technologies.
• Good grasp of algorithms, design patterns, memory management, and multithreaded programming.
• An experience with other technologies like iOS development, swift, react native, php, APi development, DB programming can be a big plus.
• Experience in dealing with Google play store communication, app rejection, iTunes Apple store.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Must have at least 3 years of experience in native android development.
• Must be graduate with computer science subjects or MCA.
• Must be good in both written and verbal English.
• Must have research skills, ability to troubleshoot and work on exceptions is top priority.

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
• 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.

• 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

• 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
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates.

• Proficient with Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Touch.
• 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
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

Responsibilities 

• 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

Skills: –

• Proficient with Swift {depending on project requirements}, 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 {such as Instruments and Shark, depending on project needs}
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• The knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {such as Git, Mercurial or SVN}
• Familiarity with continuous integration

Qualification: –

Education Qualification: B. TECH / BCA / M. TECH / MCA.

• Can work independently on the Android Development platform
• Must have knowledge of both Java and Kotlin
• Good understanding of Architecture such as MVVM and MVP.
• Must have at least 3 Good quality Android apps in the portfolio to showcase