iOS Developer

Job Title: IOS Engineer (Remote)

Job Description

Remote Working | Engineering Team | Full-time

The Impact you will create on the Job:

Developing SDKs on IOS with support for cross-platform technologies like ReactNative, Flutter along with hybrid development over platforms like Cordova.

Apply data structures and algorithms to optimize the code for a lower memory, battery, and processing footprint - all with the goal to build plug-and-play SDKs that don’t expect the app developers to write any supporting code in the app.

You will be liaising with the cross-functional teams to get an in-depth understanding of the functional requirements and propose scalable solutions.

As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.

You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.

You will get an opportunity to work with some of the best talent while learning from various highly-functional teams in the company.

You will collaborate with your team and set an example by delivering high quality and innovative engineering solutions for complex use cases.

Plan and execute the roadmap with the engineering team to build and deliver next-generation systems.

What we look for?

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/IT from premier institute.

2-4 years of industry experience in iOS development, with at least one live app on App Store.

Good knowledge of Objective-C, Swift 5, data structures and algorithms.

Fair understanding of Native Frameworks, specifically concurrency handling, data persistence (User Defaults, Keychain, Core Data), and background tasks.

Good understanding of iOS Frameworks related to UI and network.

Fair understanding of Apple’s concurrency handling, Core Data, and NS Operation classes.

Familiarity with developing UI with both XIB/Storyboard and code.

Good understanding of SDK integrations, debugging, and troubleshooting.

Interested in exploring mobile app development ecosystems like React Native, Cordova and Flutter.

Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.

Fair understanding of Push Notification ecosystem.

About Poshmark

Poshmark is a leading fashion resale marketplace powered by a vibrant, highly engaged community of buyers and sellers and real-time social experiences. Designed to make online selling fun, more social and easier than ever, Poshmark empowers its sellers to turn their closet into a thriving business and share their style with the world. Since its founding in 2011, Poshmark has grown its community to over 130 million users and generated over $10 billion in GMV, helping sellers realize billions in earnings, delighting buyers with deals and one-of-a-kind items, and building a more sustainable future for fashion. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, and for company news, visit newsroom.poshmark.com.

About the role

Poshmark is looking for a talented and creative iOS Engineer (Software Engineer II / Senior Engineer I). If you are someone who loves creating mobile applications that have a simple user interface and solid code, and are passionate about developing new user experiences, solving difficult problems, and creating delightful solutions, this is a perfect job for you! You have the unique opportunity to play a critical part in defining and building the perfect experience for millions, developing scalable, well-designed software that enhances people’s lives globally. Join our world-class team and help build the future of Poshmark.

Role Specification:

This position is a full-time role located in Chennai, India.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, iterate, and manage our iOS mobile application.
• Able to own and deliver a feature independently.
• Partner closely with our design, product, and engineering teams to produce a feature that flows seamlessly and works intuitively.
• Able to understand the requirements and come up with estimates, write high quality, maintainable and unit-testable code.
• Own important pieces of the product that have high visibility both internally and externally.

6-Month Accomplishments

• Get familiar with Poshmark’s ecosystem and tools
• Contributing to Poshmark’s iOS feature development
• Have a good collaboration within the team. Also, with other teams like Product, Design, QA, DevOps
• Should participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and provide valuable inputs to other Team members.

12+ Month Accomplishments

• Drive feature development independently
• Provide ideas/changes to improve ios application code.
• Mentor a fellow developer.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong foundation in the fundamentals of programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design optimized for mobile systems.
• 2+ years of relevant SWE experience with experience developing iOS apps (Preferably, apps released into the AppStore)
• Experience in Swift, Objective C, and XCode.
• Experience in using software design patterns. (MVVM)
• Proficiency in Multi-threading and performance & memory optimization
• Experience in writing unit test cases.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience in using RESTful APIs
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

-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.

Roles and Responsibilities

Create & manage world-class apps that have the potential of reaching millions of users.

Roles and responsibilities include -
1. Addition of new features to existing app and making sure minimal crash rate and ANR
2. Adding new AI models built by the data science team into the android environment 
3. Creating reasonable timelines and making sure delivery is according to planned schedules 

NOTE -

+ Premier institute(s) preferred - but not a requirement for the job.

+ Salary is negotiable based on your skillset

Job Description:

1. Strong Object Oriented designing and programming skills in Java
2. Solid understanding of the Android App Components lifecycle
3. Experience in Google Cloud APIs and Firebase APIs
4. Experience in Flutter
5. Experience in SQLite database
6. Knowledge of important libraries like RxJava, Retrofit, Okhttp
7. Knowledge of MVVM architecture, GPS location tracking
8. Knowledge of source code management tools like Git
9. Have published at least one app on Google play store
10. Experience in working with remote data via REST and JSON
11. Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
12. Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
13. Experience with Android SDK and multiple versions of Android.
14. Experience with Android framework, as well as offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
15. Experience with Android UI principles and best practices.

Good to have skills:

1. Having experience in Kotlin, Dagger, Jetpack, Room database
2. Having experience in Flutter, React-Native.

• You will build an android app for the Saathi users (Teachers and students) to manage teacher classes and students’ studies.
• You will work on building features end to end with complete ownership, developing, testing, and deploying the core features.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the Saathi app

• You have prior experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin or have a strong desire to shift to Kotlin.
• You have 2- 4 years of experience in android development.
• You have strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and know how to deal with different screen sizes
• You have proven work experience in design patterns mobile architecture using frameworks such as MVVM/MVC
• You have familiarity with various testing tools
• You are good in pixel-perfect implementation of designs
• You can easily pick up new technologies and frameworks on the go. For you, engineering is about principles and practices; technology is about tools and tradeoffs.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and can map out the system design for a feature end to end and execute on it.
• You want to be involved actively in the product development process and can come up with out-of-the-box ideas for unique features.
• And most importantly, you are fun to work with! 😌