iOS Developer

A bit about us

WeatherBug, a division of GroundTruth, empowers people to plan their day thanks to hyperlocal weather forecasts. With 10+ million monthly users, our app and website are favorites on the App Store and Google Play Store. We use a vast network of weather observations and innovative technology to give you real-time forecasts, alerts, and insights. Our team is passionate about enhancing user experiences and always looks for new ways to use weather data to make a difference. Join us at WeatherBug and help people stay informed and prepared for whatever the weather brings. Let's make it happen together!

Learn more: www.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.

Role : Senior Software Engineer (iOS/React Native)

Location : Remote, India

*This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.*

Role Characteristics:

Recognized subject matter expert who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field with limited oversight from managers. Independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; requires deep job knowledge of areas typically obtained through higher education combined with experience. Manages large projects or processes and problems faced are difficult and often complex; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures.

You Will:

• Design, architect, and document the entire system, down to the details, to meet team needs.
• Code robust iOS solutions to solve current problems, identifying and fixing issues within your areas of expertise.
• Act as a CodeOwner and stakeholder in code reviews within your area of expertise.
• Automate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing solutions, working closely with the QA team to ensure seamless integration.
• Deploy and run your code in pre-production to ensure quality before release.
• Develop and maintain debugging tools to enhance team efficiency.
• Collaborate with vendors to ensure third-party SDKs are properly integrated and functional.
• Perform and monitor mobile releases for iOS, ensuring smooth rollouts and updates.
• Retire outdated solutions and resources when no longer needed, ensuring the system remains efficient and streamlined.
• Provide operational support for your deployed code and all code within your domain of expertise.
• Identify and address team-wide issues, preventing problems from occurring.
• Coordinate across all business teams to resolve technical issues, mitigate risks, and provide actionable solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

You Have:

• 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related field OR 9+ years of experience in software development.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with iOS development tools (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Xcode, Core Data, Combine, Foundation, UIKit).
• 2+ years of experience with SwiftUI or declarative UI frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience on an Agile team.
• Proficiency in Concurrency, Multithreading, and Swift Combine or other asynchronous programming patterns.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management on iOS.
• Ability to effectively communicate across teams to provide and implement solutions.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and execute solutions.
• A strong sense of self-drive and technical expertise to work independently and within a team.
• Mentorship skills to guide junior and mid-level engineers.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to articulate ideas clearly.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities to handle edge cases and unexpected issues.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, QA).

Great if You Have:

• Experience using React Native (Function Components, Hooks, Redux, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory.

What we offer

At WeatherBug, 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
• 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
• 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

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are looking for people willing to work in a fast-paced and everchanging environment with focus on innovation and adaptive mindset. Come joins us, if you want to make a difference in healthcare field by building data as a key asset in decision making.

We are looking for a Team Lead/Architect for iOS platform responsible for designing and architecting applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and tablet computers.

The candidate should ideally possess the below experience

• Should Have experience leading/mentoring large technical teams.
• Experience in working with product managers , translating functional requirements to precise technical requirements.
• Identify, create and manage project/Product technical artefacts.
• Be able to plan technical milestones & drive development efforts with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience in designing enterprise grade application architecture for mobile apps, employing design patterns & best practices.
• Should have strong OOAD & TDD development approaches.
• Should have good exposure to code coverage, CPU, Memory & other profiling/tooling.
• Conduct code reviews, technical brainstorming sessions, do code refactoring & optimization.
• Coordinate with the Testing team and define UT, IT, Smoke/Regression tests.
• Triage & Delegate technical issues  to developers using bug tracking tools like JIRA
• Develop modular, reusable components for projects with industry-grade coding skills.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and clear the bottlenecks , identify the root causes of bugs along with developers
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

• Proficient with Objective-C or Swift languages, and Cocoa frameworks
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc
• Solid work experience with UI application development using standard patterns (MVC/MVP/MVVM)
• Work experience in AWS AppSync & Amplify framework integration
• Experience in offline & real time data models
• Solid experience with REST API standards and integration with ORM
• Expertise in design level optimization techniques – Caching, lazy loading, pre-fetching
• 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
• Solid understanding of security frameworks & practices for iOS development- Encryption & Data protection.
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with profilers
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools -Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Familiarity with continuous integration

Desired Skills

• Ability to understand Hybrid or cross platform applications using IONIC, React Native, Flutter
• Ability to develop any test tools in Mac/Desktop
• Experience with communication and messaging applications
• Experience with security software and solutions
• Experience in python / JavaScript is good to have  
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred

Qualification:

• Diploma, bachelors or masters in the area of human centred / product design
• Continued education and research into UI trends and current design strategy and technology

Methodology/Practices:

• Experience working on Agile development methodology
• Experience working in Design Thinking methodology (preferred)

Profile - iOS Developer

Exp- 3+ Years

Company Profile:

Saffron Tech Private Limited

Saffron Tech is a result driven digital transformation company in New Jersey (NJ) &

New Delhi. We are known for transforming businesses to digitisation. We are

providing development services and IT solutions to its clients across the globe. Being

in the field of IT for more than 10 years now, the company has successfully executed

over 1500 projects for its clients. Saffron Tech Pvt Ltd is a multi-faceted IT firm

adept at providing Web and Mobile Application Development, IT Offshore Staffing

and Digital Marketing Services.

We are servicing over 500 clients from across the globe. We are a strong 150+

member family at the moment working from state of the art office premises close to

Saket, South Delhi. Our primary operational markets are USA, UK, APAC and

Middle East. To know more about us and our brands please visit

http://www.saffrontech.net/

Role Purpose:-

 iOS App Design and Development

 Detailed Responsibilities description:-

 Analysis of requirements and specifications

 Understanding of standard specification like Bluetooth® LE and other IoT

standards.

 Analysis of project requirements, estimation of effort required for various tasks.

 Design, Development, Enhancement and Maintenance of iOS App

 Software design including architecture and UI design of iOS App in an Agile

environment.

 Development of iOS App in Swift 5 using XCode for iOS platform.

 Write code suitable for concurrent execution / multi-threaded environment.

 Deep debugging / troubleshooting of iOS Apps both in development and

production environments across Swift.

 Profiling and optimization of iOS applications

 Use crash logs / analytics to find issue on customers’ device.

 Use XCode instruments / other tools to profile software, find bottlenecks.

 Optimization of code, use of appropriate data structure and application of proper

algorithms.Must have skills:

 Good Team Player having ability to work independently with minimal

supervision.

 Hands-on programming knowledge of Swift & Objective-C on iOS platform.

 Basic knowledge of Core Bluetooth (BLE)

 Working knowledge of Core Data

 Extensive experience in using various architectures, frameworks and design

patterns in designing/refactoring highly optimized.

 Good knowledge of C, C++ and objective oriented programming.

 Hands-on knowledge of source control tools like GIT.

 Knowledge of creating frameworks and libraries / SDK on iOS platform.

 Experience in debugging and profiling iOS Apps.

 Understanding of Apple Coding, UI Design and API Guidelines.

 Experience of iOS App submission, distribution and review process.

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

Desired skills

• Knowledge of UI development (UI Kit, App Life Cycle, View Controller life cycle, Storyboards, Auto layout)
• Basic and Advanced concepts of Swift (for e.g., generics, KVO, etc.)
• Minimum 1 year experience in Swift.
• Implementation details of complex features (e.g., push notifications, Analytics integration, accessibility, features of health kit, deep-linking, etc.)
• MVC, MVVM, VIPER design patterns and other patterns used in iOS
• Apple UI guidelines, Guidelines/process to submit app to the App Store

Personal attributes

• Good communication skills.

Who we are

ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

The iOS Team

Our iOS team is always keen to stay ahead of the curve by always adopting the latest tech in the valley. We were first to market with adopting iPhone X layout, implementing ARKit in 2017, and Siri Shortcuts in 2018. We have been featured across app store over a dozen times in the past 2 years in Today, Apps, and Travel section.

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Culture: ixigems enjoy a fun and rewarding work atmosphere. We do not believe in hierarchies, and we encourage communication and constructive collaboration. We believe in the personal growth of individuals, creative approaches to solve real-world problems, and questioning the status quo!