iOS Developer

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• Contract length: 12 Month

Job description :

iOS DEVELOPER :

What we are looking for

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any relevant degree to the field
• Proven working experience in software development
• A deep familiarity with Swift and Cocoa Touch
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

• Perks of working at an IT company is you get to work with the coolest products
• Our work is acknowledged internationally hence you will get good exposure to the international market too
• We love when employees have a good work-life balance so 2nd and 4th Saturdays are an off for you to stay with your family and friends
• We are a group of millennials working together so we assure you that there won't be a boring day at work

About Us:

Pixster Studio is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with over 10M downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in India. And our ambitions don't end there! We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, marketer, and graphic designers. We work from our amazing headquarters in Ahmedabad. We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our ber-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the India. 

HOW YOU WILL HELP US SUCCEED

• Your main role as an iOS developer is to build a frictionless end-user experience. A key part of achieving this is through applying your expertise while having a close collaboration with other Android & iOS and backend developers, as well as business stakeholders.
• Build features and maintain frontend services by implementing defined work issues.
• Improve and maintain existing code.
• Work with databases, servers, microservices, and APIs, and the integration of all these processes with the native environment.
• Work collaboratively by proposing solutions and alternative point of views to problems.
• Pair Programming and Code Reviews.
• Participate in SCRUM ceremonies.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• A minimum of 3 years of coding as an iOS Developer.
• In-depth experience with Swift and Xcode.
• Up to date with the latest Cocoa and iOS trends.
• Understanding of UI Kit, Core Animation, Interactions, GCD & Networking.
• Excellent understanding of design patterns & Object Oriented Programming.
• Understanding of analytics, remote reporting and measurements.
• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI) and Unit Testing on iOS.
• Experience with API’s and core data.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Experience working with Git.
• Knowledge of socket based networking desirable.
• Understanding of the iOS ecosystem (APNs, Code signing, iTunes Connect, TestFlight).

• Excellent working knowledge of OOPs, SOLID principles and different design patterns.
• Solid hands on experience and deep understanding of different architectures.
• Solid working knowledge of Objective C and Swift, iOS application development and iOS fundamentals.
• Proficient with general swift language features, collections, protocol oriented programming, etc.
• Hands on experience of implementing architecture patterns and designing/implementing unit test cases using XCTest & other third party libraries.
• Solid working experience of debugging, profiling tools, developer portal and App Store release process.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with an open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks. 
• Work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products.  
• Build reusable iOS software components for the platform.  

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.   
• Work on bug fixing to improve application performance and shipping new features as required 
   

  Requirements:  

• Experience with iOS Design patterns, memory management, REST web-services and JSON Parsing. Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform 
•  Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features 

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance  
• Can integrate apps with backend and 3rd party API’s. 
• Good programming skills in Objective-C/Swift and extensive knowledge of Apples SDKs and frameworks like Core Data, Core Graphics, Foundation, UIKit, etc.  
• Have published one or more applications in an iOS App Store. 

• Knowledge of iOS App Store deployment process.