iOS Developer

AECC Global is a leading education consultancy founded in 2008 with a global footprint in 13 countries and 39 cities. Our motive is to provide expert international education guidance and counseling to passionate students.

We are looking for a Hybrid Mobile application developer who likes being part of an innovative team, where he/she will get to work on the best product in the market. Able to Design and develop Hybrid Mobile applications using the latest web technologies, primarily React native.
● Who can join immediately
● Opportunity to work in Cloud-based Data Solutions and Products.

Required Skills & Experience:
● Extensive experience in Hybrid Mobile application design and development using
React native.
● Has a minimum of 2+ years of experience in React native.
● Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side APIs integration.
● Hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Angular
● Experience with Git.
● Worked in Agile projects.
● Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, able to work both in teams and individually.

About Plum

 

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

 

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. The majority of Indians won't be able to afford health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

 

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

 

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable Java code. 
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality components and modular code, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Strong advocate of Google’s iOS design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.
• Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus. 

• 3 + years of experience of iOS SDK, Swift and how to deal with different screen sizes. 
• Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningFamiliarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasksAbility to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

● You will be engineering champions, designing solutions for real-time complex technical
problems to impact a billion people.
● You will need to choose which architectures suit future requirements and mold the
relevant modules accordingly.
● Ownership of product/business requirements.
● Craft the opportunity for reusable frameworks, toolkits that would be used across iOS
Teams.
● Work closely with the relevant platform stakeholders and Collaborate with multiple
product teams.
● Ownership of the app’s performance, health matrix, and build an app for the next billion
people.
● Reviews cross-team work critically and ensure it’s appropriately broken down and prioritized,
and well understood by all involved teams.
Technical DNAs Expected
● Proficiency in Swift and Objective C, a novice in backend development.
● Solid fundamentals of data structures, Algorithms, System Design.
● Good understanding of internal and external libraries and write code with useful
abstraction and separation of concerns.
● Concurrency and multithreading are friends.
● Prefer to reduce the 3rd party dependencies and opt only if it’s essential.
● GateKeeper for Master and maintain strategies to code integration.
● Pivot for a good degree of predictability (estimation, planning) in deliverables.
● Proficient in CI/CD Pipelines, Fastlane tools.
Document Credit: iOS Team
● 3 Plus Full-Time, Professional Software Development Experience.
Software Developer Engineering II, iOS Development.
● Inclination towards reactive programming.
Good To Have
● Contribution towards the iOS Community
● Exposure to Swift Package Manager and Swift UI

We are looking to hire a talented iOS developer to design, build, and maintain the next generation of iOS applications. Your primary focus will be developing high-end iOS applications for the latest Apple mobile devices. Your duties may include collaborating with the design team for new application features, identifying and fixing application bottlenecks, maintaining the core code, and updating applications published on the App Store.

To ensure success as an iOS developer, you should have a strong working knowledge of iOS Frameworks, be proficient in Objective-C, and be able to work as part of a team. Ultimately, an outstanding iOS developer should be able to create functional, attractive applications that perfectly meet the needs of the user.



iOS Developer Responsibilities:

· 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.

iOS Developer Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree in computer science or software engineering.

· Proven experience of 3 to 5 years 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.

· Experience with MAP experiences : tracking and navigation.

· Payment gateway integration hands on experience is must.

· Experience with Appstore publishing.

· Vehicle tracking application experiences will be an added advantage.

an Architect you are responsible for research, design, test, implement, and maintain iOS applications to meet client
needs. You are expected to be Subject Matter Experts on iOS application architecture.
You are also expected to demonstrate value to the organization by mentoring other team members as they learn and
grow, take ownership and responsibility not only for your deliverables, but for the entire application and its use, and
to find a balance between achieving software excellence and delivering working code.
How you will help:
• Involved with all phases of mobile app development from initial concepts, through design, development,
testing and deployment
• You will help guide multiple Agile teams with open communication channels, regular releases, and a focus on
continuous improvement.
• Guide and mentor a team of IOS developers and work closely with Quality Engineers
• Establish best practices and processes that ensure quality within the team
• Champion our best practices and mentor team on use and results of these best practices
• Responsibility for product both pre and post launch to ensure application is meeting customer needs and
achieving continued revenue goals
• Architect, Lead, implement and review new features for android phones and tablets.
• Interactive communication of designs and other development topics to Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum
Master and other Agile Team members.
• Lead code reviews to ensure code quality and shared knowledge.
• Research and analyze the existing code base to identify issues and improve application performance and
maintenance.
• Take ownership and sense of responsibility of all deliverables.
• Adhere to Agile scaled methodologies.
• Develop and architect iOS applications across multiple releases (Objective-C, Swift).
• Work within SCRUM agile process with other stakeholders (Product Owners, XD design, Quality Engineers) as
well as across organization to balance creative objectives with business needs and technical requirements.
Who we have in mind:
• 10+ years of experience in developing native iOS application(s). Objective C, Swift is a must.
• Understanding of Hybrid application development is a plus.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Expert in multi-threading concepts to create highly responsive data intensive applications
• Extensive knowledge of CoreData framework, esp. in multi-threading environments
• Good knowledge on other iOS frameworks, especially for handling Contacts and Media
• Good knowledge with web service architecture, protocols, security and data formats (Ex. REST, OAuth, JSON,
etc.) and implementation patterns on iOS platform including both Apple and 3rd party tools/frameworks
• Deep understanding of ARC memory management practices, especially when using blocks
• Experience Architect/creating/maintaining unit tests including mock objects and unit tests for asynchronous
code (test expectations)
• Expert in iOS UI guidelines.
• Expert in XCode profiling tools
• Experience working with SCRUM and/or Agile development environments
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Expert in creating design and maintain architecture documentation, class diagrams, technical flow documents
etc
• Strong written and oral communication skills, ability to multi-task, establish priorities and meet tight
deadlines
• Test Driven development
• Excellent conceptual, analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Additional plus: C++ intermediate to advanced experience
• Experience working with other technologies such as React in use for progressive web apps

The Opportunity:
We are looking for key contributors to our industry leading iOS app. You'll be working on a product that has evolved tremendously over the past few years to become a global market leader - but still has a lot of room to grow. You’ll be using the most current technologies and best practices to accomplish our goals. Our typical day involves the creation of new end to end systems, building advanced architectures, creation of new features on our high uptime / frequently published App, development of fast and reliable automated testing systems and working in a culture that is always looking to improve our quality, tools, and efficiency.

In this Role, you'll get to:
▪ Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems ▪ Lead and mentor other technical team members ▪ Learn additional mobile team related software platforms and related technologies such as Android and API Servers/GraphQL ▪ Continue to evolve our architecture and build better software in advanced Swift ▪ Be a major contributor to our Agile and Scrum practices ▪ Get involved with full stack engineering and collaborate with server, other client, and infrastructure technical team members to build the best solution

What you'll Need to Succeed:

▪ At least 3 years of experience developing iOS applications; 5 years preferred ▪ B.S. in Computer Science or quantitative field; M.S. preferred ▪ Be a leader, technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology ▪ Extremely proficient in one or more mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Web) and at least one programming language (Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, JavaScript, Java, Scala, C#) ▪ Extremely proficient in modern mobile and server coding and design practices. For example, VIPER, MVVM, SOLID principals, and TDD. ▪ Working experience with Agile, Analytics, A/B testing, GIT Flow ▪ Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills ▪ Great communication and coordination skills ▪ Good command of the English language