iOS Developer

Job Title: Senior iOS Developer

Location: [Indore / Chennai ]

Experience Required: 8-10 years

Employment Type: Full-time

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in iOS development.
• Strong proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, Xcode, and iOS SDKs.
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and integration with backend services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced applications for the iOS platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

• You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
• 4+ years of experience building applications in Native iOS (Swift)
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs.
• Strong Js fundamentals - You should be able to contribute partially to our existing React Native development as well
• Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
• Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
• Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Reach out to the open-source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes
• You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is needed)
• Deep understanding of iOS architecture
• Understanding of inter app communication
• System design thinking
  
  

• Experience with React Native or similar Hybrid Frameworks
• Exposure to Objective C
• Experience in Test Driven Development
• Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell backend what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
• Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Asking questions like why does this particular response take so much time as compared to others, and brainstorming with the backend engineer on how to improve on it)

• Competitive Salary
• Health insurance for you and your family
• Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time
• Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. No questions asked!
• Work remotely

• Create and maintain mobile applications.
• Contributing to the development of project schedules and workflows.
• Recommending changes and enhancements to applications.
• Work from UI/UX requirements, APIs and mock-ups to build functional and high-performance applications.
• Keep abreast of the latest technology for mobile applications.
• Work with other developers to brainstorm new applications.
• Create UI tests to source analytics.

Job Description-

We are looking for an iOS developer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile

technologies to the limits and will work with our team of talented engineers to design and

build the next generation of our mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining iPhone and iPad application
• Estimate the work efforts at varied levels and entail in design evaluation,

determining the architectures, lay-out and style controls

• Connect client application with various back-end technologies
• Work in coordination with developers in designing architecture and implement

designing strategy

• Collaborate with people in other disciplines for the production and delivery of

project deliverable

Experience and Skills required

• Must have 1-3 year of experience in developing apps for iOS
• Working experience in Swift
• Working experience Objective C
• Understanding of web development concepts such as REST and SOAP web

services, and how to access them from iOS Objective C Code is a prerequisite

• Possess experience in developing social and location aware applications
• Experience of developing apps for varied platforms like Blackberry,

Android,Symbian is an added advantage

• Hands on experience on use of the latest iPhone SDK 5

Key Skills:

Objective C, Swift, React Native

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.

• Candidate Must be well versed with latest SDK versions, XCode, Objective C, Swift, UIKit, Cocoa etc.
• Expertise in integrating web services (XML/ JSon etc.) with iPhone applications.
• An experience in using Maps API, GPS services for iPhone/ iOS apps is required.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text, Core Location.
• To take care of build and release process (Adhoc releases, Final release).
• Should have worked on cocoa touch, story board, core data, auto layout.
• Hands-on experience in Cloud APIs, push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics is an added advantage.
• Must have good analytical, debugging, App publishing and problem solving skills.
• Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.