iOS Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

This role will be based in our brand new Hyderabad office. Join us in India’s beautiful “City of Pearls” and bring your ambition to life. We are looking for an experienced iOS engineer who is passionate about building modern, scalable applications for iOS and tvOS, and will take ownership of the full product feature cycle from design to delivery.

Your Team:

The R&D group is building and delivering the enablement platform for the current and next generation of media experiences in the fields of personalization, content interaction, and social interaction, all of which are at the core of DAZN's value proposition. Key parts of the workflow are ingestion, transcoding of various video and audio live/VOD assets, personalized processing, and distribution across the world to end-users, while allowing collaboration among users, all in real-time. This group is taking full responsibility for providing end-to-end social interaction functionalities on multiple platforms including web, smart TVs, iOS, Android, PlayStation, and Xbox.

As our new Senior iOS Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to:

● Designing and developing our cutting-edge products, delivered to millions of

sports fans around the world.

● Be an essential part of a team working in a fast B2C paste product delivery

pipeline.

● Work with the most talented individual on features that cross platforms,

languages, and protocols to deliver social engagement to sports fans.

● Learn from the best in the field, and teach others.

● Own the full product feature cycle from being a part of the product

brainstorming through all dev cycles and up to take the responsibility for the

feature when rolled to production.

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

● B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.

● At least 4 years of experience in Apple Swift/Obj-C development.

● Senior-level understanding of design patterns and architectures.

● A verse in 3rd party frameworks and solutions.

● Senior-level understanding of server-client fundamentals.

● Senior-level understanding of multithreading.

● Experience with UI Kit

● Experience with RxSwift development.

● Experience in writing unit tests.

● Strong analytical skills.

● Can-do attitude!

Even better if you have:

● Experience in writing automation tests.

● Continuous integration tools and practices.

● Familiarity with agile software development.

● Experienced with low-level systems in C/C++.

● Experienced with OpenGL, high-performance rendering, mobile device, digital

AV, video and audio codecs, and media players.

● Experience with RxSwift development.

● Experienced with working on networking technology and approaches, e.g.

client-server, peer-to-peer, writing network code using TCP/IP and UDP

stacks and networking concepts.(routing, congestion, datagrams vs. streams)

● Experienced with RT web technologies: WebSockets, WebRTC.

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. If you're ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.

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.

• Own the development, testing, and maintenance of native SDKs and Unity on different mobile platforms, their respective OS versions, and devices.
• Partner with [redacted] to design and test new features and products.
• You have the desire to learn new things, try new technology, and seek opportunities to grow and mentor.
• Provide thought leadership in mobile engineering and bring your passion for technology to motivate and inspire on a day to day basis.
• Provide detailed estimates of work and ensure timely delivery of features.
• Produce and ensure delivery of quality, readable, and well-tested code.
• Rely on judgment and experience to plan and accomplish goals in a timely manner.
• Own the elements required to deliver features and results to internal stakeholders.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
• Proven experience as an app developer.
• Proficient in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa Touch.
• Extensive experience with iOS Frameworks such as Core Data and Core Animation.
• Knowledge of iOS back-end services.
• Knowledge of Apple’s design principles and application interface guidelines.
• Proficient in code versioning tools including Mercurial, Git, and SVN.
• Knowledge of C-based libraries.
• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging.
• Experience with continuous integration.

• 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

Location      : Baner, Pune

Notice period : Immediate to 30 Days

• Proven software development experience
• Proven working experience in iOS development
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Swift
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
• Have published at least one app in the Store
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Knowledge of JNI, security algorithms
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces
• Knowledge of the open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, SVN
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Solid understanding of the mobile development life cycle
• Good to have: Experience in working on cross platform UI framework such as React Native or Cordova.

• 5+ years’ experience in developing applications for iOS using Swift 5.
• Hands-on experience in developing and integrating mobile applications for iPhone & iPad (both orientations)
• Knowledge of JSON/REST API, web services and related technologies.
• Experience with design Guidelines, UI and UX design.
• Prior experience in submitting and maintaining iOS Apps on Apple Store & TestFlight would be a plus
• Hands-on experience working with 3rd party SDKs, Libraries and APIs
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Familiar with Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Dynamic design handling
• Gamification
• Strong problem-solving skills

• Should also be proficient in using Adaptive Layouts

Responsibilities and Duties

• Understand project, strategise development plans and deliver on time with utmost quality.
• Maintaining and supporting multiple projects and deadlines
• Volunteer in creating new apps and improvise existing apps.
• Stay in touch with market trends and new technologies.

Job Type: Full-time