iOS Developer

We are looking for a Mobile Lead (IOS & Android) for one of the leading TMT bar manufacturers & suppliers in Kolkata.

Role - Mobile Lead (IOS & Android)

Experience - 5+ years

Location - Kolkata

Job Description :-

As a Mobile Lead, your primary responsibility is to oversee the development and maintenance of mobile applications for our organization. 

Some of the key job responsibilities include :-

1. Leading the Mobile Development Team: You will lead a team of developers, designers who are responsible for building and maintaining mobile applications. You will be responsible for Coding, delegating tasks, setting goals and timelines, and overseeing the team's performance to ensure that the development process runs smoothly.

2. Developing Mobile Applications: You will be responsible for developing mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms, using a range of programming languages such as Swift, Java, Kotlin, and React Native. You will need to ensure that the application is scalable, user-friendly, and meets the specific requirements of the organization.

3. Collaborating with Stakeholders: You will be responsible for collaborating with various stakeholders in the organization, including product managers, project managers, designers, and other development teams to understand the requirements and objectives of the application. You will need to ensure that the application aligns with the overall product roadmap and meets the business objectives.

4. Ensuring Quality: You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the mobile application, including testing, debugging, and fixing any issues that arise during the development process. You will need to

ensure that the application is free of bugs, runs smoothly, and meets performance and usability standards.

5. Keeping Up with Emerging Trends: You will need to stay up to date with the latest developments in mobile technology, and emerging trends in user experience and design. You will need to ensure that the mobile application is using the latest technologies and is in line with industry best practices.

6. Managing Project Budget: You will be responsible for managing the budget for mobile development projects, including resource allocation, vendor management, and contract negotiations.

Overall, the Mobile Lead is a critical role that requires a strong understanding of mobile development processes and the ability to lead a team to deliver high-quality mobile applications.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for iOS applications

• Supporting the entire application lifecycle from concept to design, testing, release and support

• Troubleshooting and bug fixes for applications, to ensure that codes are clean and secure

• Recommending changes and enhancements

• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols

Required skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

• You have prior experience as an iOS Developer

• You have a portfolio of released applications on the App Store

• You are familiar with mobile product and design lifecycles

• You have proven experience in iOS development in either Objective-C / Swift

• Experience with iOS frameworks (Eg. Core Data, Core Animation etc.)

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate iOS applications

• Good understanding of iOS release cycle and familiarity with CI/CD platform and pipelines

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (eg. Git)

• Familiarity with various testing tools

• Experience in mobile application development 
• Experience in Objective C, Swift, XCode, etc
• Experience in developing/programming mobile apps on iOS platform
• Experience in lead development of IOS development
• Strong CS fundamentals,

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Design and build application for iOS platforms
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using the best software development practices
• Responsible for working on iOS frameworks, Xcode, Swift, Rxswift, Xcode SDK Platform tools
• Responsible to work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Create and maintain software documentation
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities

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, Unit test.
• 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 about 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 system such as GIT.

About the role: We are here to build a world-class tech organization with elite engineers and change agents who would spearhead this change. Currently, we are looking for engineers who are skilled, passionate, driven, and a wee bit crazy (yes, crazy works!) to join our tribe. The small tweaks you make, the processes you alter, the experiments you run, and the business decisions you drive will have reverberating effects on our ability to add value to our customers and keep them coming back for more.

What you will do everyday:

• Work with a group of people who believe in the utmost transparency and ethical practices
• Work with full autonomy and high ownership of outcomes
• Add value to our user’s life
• Focus deeply into app’s performance & stability
• Crave for a steep learning curve and challenge

Skills you need to do the job:

• 3-8 years experience with Objective C, Swift
• Experience in working on a large iPhone app, through scaling and performance issues.
• Knowledge of different Architectures like MVVM, MVP, etc - Knowledge of writing Unit Tests.
• Experience in integrating with Restful APIs. • Experience with CI/CD and building pipelines for app releases is a huge plus
• Capable of handling web service integration - RESTful, JSON, SOAP, XML
• Focus and passion for Mobile UI & UX to make apps exciting for the user
• Proactive towards debugging & optimization codebase
• Rapid prototyping skills for getting product feedback
• Understanding of product development lifecycle
• Experience in React Native or any cross-platform mobile development is a bonus

About CoutLoot : 

- CoutLoot is India's leading social commerce offline to an online platform that lets anyone sell online in 30 seconds! We're on a mission to empower offline sellers to sell online using the CoutLoot app and sell their products to buyers all over the country.

- CoutLoot is a Series A funded company backed by leading Chinese VCs, Artha India Ventures, Venture Catalysts & others.

Job Description : We are looking for dynamic, open-minded self-starters who enjoy Business Leadership roles and would like to build a Category in an extremely fast-growing e-commerce company impacting millions of Indians.

Job Requirements :

- At least 2 years of experience working with iOS and has published at least one app to the App Store.

- Excellent proficiency in Swift and has experience working with Objective-C.

- Should have good knowledge of object-oriented software engineering.

- Should be able to deal with Objective-C in legacy code.

- Decent knowledge of protocol-oriented programming in Swift.

- Experience working with constraint-based layouts using AutoLayout.

- Should have a good eye for detail and have good skills in implementing clean UI and UX.

- Experience with testing frameworks and writing clean, testable code.

- Experience with client/server architectures using HTTP, REST APIs, etc.

- Must have excellent knowledge of Foundation framework, Core Data, etc.

- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

- Experience working with various architecture patterns like VIPER, MVVM, etc as well with clean code principles.

- Must be a team player with good communication skills and experience mentoring junior engineers.