iOS Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION

React Native Developer

It is a platform for creators, influencers and celebrities to grow, manage and monetise their community. It is aimed at both established and aspiring online creators who want to pursue their passion. Our vision is to enable anyone and everyone to make a successful living doing what they enjoy.

• Roles & Responsibilities:-

• Architect, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Write unit and integration tests.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.
• Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and a designer.
• Complete two week sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
• Assist with building estimates.
• Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.
• Track your time throughout the day using Toggle.
• Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
• Be part of a community of React Native developers who share knowledge and help each other as problems arise.

• Required Candidate profile:-

• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience working with Swift, Java required.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• You work well within a team environment and enjoy working in the office with your colleagues.
  
  

We are looking out for an iOS Developer to join the Mobile team to take end to end ownership of our iOS Consumer App. We are looking out for someone who speaks fluent Swift and loves shipping and building beautiful, maintainable and scalable apps.

Requirements:

• You have 2-6 years of experience working with Swift and Objective-C whenever you encounter the pitfalls of Swift.
• Familiarity with MVC, MVP, MVVM and VIPER architectures.
• You have worked on 2-3 production apps with MAU's in the range of 25K+.
• You love getting your hands dirty and are dealing with legacy parts of the code bases.
• You have experience building projects from scratch as well as building on top of existing code bases.
• You have handled complex views ranging from Form Heavy views to Animation Heavy views.
• You have a strong bias towards action.

Good to have:

• Experience dealing with Location Data along with Mapping interfaces like Google Maps, Map Box or MapMyIndia.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, Automated Tests and Unit Testing.
• Experience with RxSwift, Alamofire, Kingfisher, Lottie, SwiftyBeaver, Firebase SDK, Clevertap SDK and ObjectMapper.
• Implementing designs w. r. t HCI guidelines.

-Strong understanding of Swift & Objective-C, MVC/MVVM, and Cocoa APIs/frameworks

-Experience with AVFoundation, CoreData,Core location, CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, NSURLSession,

iOS background modes, tvOS, JSON, CocoaPods,3D touch.

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

-Strong understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

-Strong understanding of auto layout and UI implementation.

-Strong understanding of Git.

-Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

-Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

-Establish unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

-Knowledge in making network calls using Alamofile(swift), AFNetworking(Objective - C), and using native

NSURLSession.

-Good debugging skills and knowledge to use Instruments App.

-App store deployment and certificate management knowledge.

-Knowledge in Firebase Real-Time dB and FCM will be a plus.

-Experience in implementing universal linking in iOS.

About the Role

We, at upGrad, believe in giving ownership and responsibility to each one of the team members. As an iOS Developer, you will be a part of the iOS app development team and strive to deliver the best learning experience out there to our learners that upGrad is known for. You will be responsible for developing features, taking those features to production and maintaining the existing code.

Innovative nature and pro-active involvement in the product is taken very seriously at upGrad, therefore, a major part of your role would involve thinking about new features and new ways to deliver quality learning experience to our learners.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own end to end development and operations of high-performance software development team.
• Design the architecture and deliver clean, testable, and scalable code 
• Participate in requirement gathering and display a strong sense of ownership and delivery 
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by
• Participating in regular peer-reviews of solution designs and related code 
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

Skills Required

• Minimum 6 years of strong iOS development experience with at least 2 Apps Published on App Store of Enterprise Platform.
• Strong Swift concepts along with OOPS, Computer Science fundamentals, Memory Management, App Profiling experience.
• In depth understanding of frameworks like UIKit, Foundation classes, AutoLayout, Core Data, Networking, Collections, GCD, ARC.
• Solid understanding to write modular code, template based programming which is Unit testable (Critical Requirement)
• Solid understanding of iOS architectural patterns especially VIPER (and MVVM) and their importance in scalable software development process.
• Prior understanding of Git (must have), JIRA, Trello, Confluence, etc
• Experience in iOS UI creation using Storyboards, XIB and Code.
• Experience with standard libraries like RxSwift, Swinject, Alamofire, etc.
• Good written and verbal communication.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams to work on different phases of the project.
• Knowledge about App Store, publishing an app and the common rejection reasons.

➢ Degree from top engineering college, or equivalent technical background is preferred
➢ Be a self-starter who thrives in a rapidly growing organization
➢ Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
➢ 2-4 years of industry experience in iOS Mobile Application design and development, with minimum 2 app deployed in App Store
➢ A deep familiarity with Swift. Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Maps, core Location, core Bluetooth and Core Animation
➢ Strong UX/UI design exposure and experience in making apps work intuitively
➢ Ability to identify issues and improve application performance
➢ Experience in usage of instruments to detect memory leaks for performance optimization
➢ Develop unit and functional test cases
➢ Familiar with the following – Git repository, Restful API, MVC, MVP, MVVM
➢ Strong CS fundamentals (with competencies in algorithms and data structures). Highly accountable and takes ownership, with collaborative attitude, and a lifelong learner.
➢ Experience with third-party libraries and APIs Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle 

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!