iOS Developer

Our Engineering Team 

Keka Engineering Team follows modern engineering practices and works with latest stack. Refactoring is central to our philosophy to evolve the design, maintain code consistency and adapt to dynamic business needs. We believe in DevOps practices, there is no fixed release cycle; our CI/CD pipeline, deployment automation, blue-green deployment and other related practices gives us flexibility to deploy multiple times a day (if required). Our Engineering team is made up of small cohesive teams embracing Agile; working on focus areas to deliver awesome experiences to our Customers. Keka Engineering Team works on complex technical challenges, learns & adapts and most importantly; we have fun along the way.  

As a Mobile developer you are required to work with a team of architects, and developers to create mobile applications.

·       Design and build applications for the iOS platform

·       Ensure the performance, quality, and knowledge of best practices

·       Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

·       Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

·       Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.

·       Working knowledge of the general mobile orientation, architecture, trends, and emerging technologies.

·       Solid understanding of the full mobile application development life cycle.

·       Must have good analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

·       Self-starter having the ability to independently acquire the knowledge required in succeeding his job.

·       Good communication skills. Should be able to discuss requirement for stake holders like, Product Owner and other Business stakeholders

·       Proficient with Swift 5 & above

·       Strong understanding of MVVM Architecture and should be able to demonstrate working experience

·       Strong knowledge of Design patterns

·       Strong with Auto layout and Storyboard for proficient user interface creation

·       Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

·       Experience with Online/Offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

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

·       Knowledge of UX standards

·       Should have experience with Unit Testing

·       Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

·       Review code, follow best practices for coding guidelines

·       Proficient with writing reusable code

·       Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications, social media integration, and integration of analytics

·       Knack for benchmarking and optimization

·       Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git / SVN, Swift Package Manager, Cocoa Pods)

·       Familiarity with continuous integration

·       Knowledge of Appstore Deployment process/norms

·       Good knowledge of Certificate and Profile creations

·       Good knowledge of distribution builds for testing over TestFlight or similar distribution tools.

SKILLS :

● Strong proficiency in Android development, including Java programming and Android SDK integration.

● Experience with Manifest declarations and handling permissions in Android applications.

● Familiarity with creating custom plugin interfaces to access native features.

● Understanding of anti-reverse engineering techniques and their implementation.

● Knowledge of device identification methods for whitelisting purposes.

● Ability to troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues on Android SDK version 30 and above.

● Experience with integrating browser interactions and passing data to the backend.

● Proficiency in crash issue handling and debugging for different target SDKs.

● Familiarity with native information access and data collection for analytics purposes.

● Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve library conflicts.

● Someone who loves coding & playing games

• S/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in software development
• Working experience in iOS development
• Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C 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

We are looking for an experienced IOS developer who can help make our IOS app even more spectacular for the highest performing professionals globally.

About Track

The calendar is a tool that can assist you to achieve your highest human potential. Being productive with your time and collaborating efficiently with others is key to it. And Track (https://thetrackapp.com) is the fastest calendar experience ever. We've redesigned the calendar from the ground up to be fast, simple, effortless and also fun.

The Team

We are a small and efficient team and speed is part of everything we build and do

We are backed by amazing investors from India and US who have cofounded startups which had massive exits and the investors are currently on boards of Unicorn startups.

The Founder has over 12 years of experience in technology, studied and worked in the US for 8 years, and has cofounded a startup before.

Expected Skills :- 

1. Abillity to write API calls that work efficiently in the background
2. Ideally worked with Realm DB but SQLLite is fine 
3. Ability to take a design and create a replica using programmatic code. We don't use Storyboard. 
4. Should have great knowledge of Architecture patterns like MVC, MVVM 
5. Ability to work with Notifications 
6. ideally should have worked on Extensions
7. Excellent debugging skills
8. Excellent problem solving skills 
9. should understand how to make asyncronous non blocking API calls. 
10. Having worked on a Chat application that uses Websockets, or XMPP or Firebase would be a big bonus .
11. Having worked with OAuth2 flows or Google apis would alos be a big bonus

Personal Skills 
1. Go getter attitude. Should look for things that can improve and then go ahead and make them better. 

How we hire? 

You typically do a project that can be completed within a week. If the quality is great, we will pay you for it. Sometimes that's good enough. Sometimes we may to a problem solving / algorithm interview after that. 

iOS Developer responsibilities include: 
Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. Job brief 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

Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability. Work on bug fixing and improving application performance. Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements 
MCA / BE /B.Tech Computer Science / IT Proven working experience in software development Working experience in iOS development. Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store A deep familiarity with Objective-C, Swift and Cocoa Touch Experience working git.

• 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