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.

PayPal is a leading technology platform and digital payments company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy.

. Giving an opportunity to build business critical features on the PayPal app. This is a new initiative and a new team and employees would get involved in designing the blue print from scratch, building a highly scalable and configurable app and scale it to hundreds of regions, impacting lives of millions of users

Strong customer focus and product thinking is essential. Will help build the next generation of PayPal native apps.

Role/ Responsibilities:
• Assist in design and development of PayPal iOS application
• Influencing peers, juniors and seniors both within the organization and across PayPal.
• Native iOS app development and converting ideas, designs and requirements to concrete stable production builds
• Coordinate and collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to understand problems, come up with creative solutions, and help with tracking and delivering within the release plan • Understand and implement iOS specific design patterns
• Collaborate with Engineering and QA to resolve bugs

Desired Skills and Experience:
• At least 5 years of native ioS development experience .
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing internet application with REST services at the backend
• Super awesome at iOS fundamentals, including technologies like UIKit, Core Animation, Auto Layout and Cocoa Touch

Excellent Swift and Objective-C coding ability along with strong CS & OS fundamentals
• Familiarity with continuous integration (Jenkins), application monitoring (Crashlytics and fabric.io), mocking tools (Appium and Apiary), build tool development and enhancements, using unit testing and cucumber tests for functional tests.
• Extremely comfortable with understanding and implementing client-side handlers for web services with REST services at the backend

- Experience with Cucumber testing framework desired
• B.S. or equivalent degree in Computer Science is desired

• Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Location etc
• Experience in Design patterns such as POP, MVVM, CleanSwift, Facade
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Understanding of Git

About Plum

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)

• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code. 
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality components and modular code, ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Strong advocate of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Strong sense of ownership and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and collaboration.Having experience with building and maintaining an open source project or design library is a plus.

• 3 + years of experience of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes. 
• Experience with local databases, offline storage, threading, and performance tuningExperience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose is desirable.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as camera, gyroscopes and accelerometers
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

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.

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Swift 3 , Swift 4. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , core-data , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / Viper , network check.

You will help define the next generation experience for Citrix Workspace app on desktop platforms and modernize tech stack. If you believe in a bottom-up culture, are passionate about delivering high quality software at scale, striving for technical agility in a fast paced, high performance environment, then we are looking for you! 

Position Overview
The Engineering Manager is responsible to lead a critical iOS development team in Bangalore focused on building exciting new solutions for our iOS users .This team will be driving key strategic initiatives while collaborating closely with our iOS development teams globally.

Role Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of highly skilled software engineers using agile practices.
• Responsible for design, development, maintenance of software which is used by millions of people daily.
• Has flexibility to spend significant time as an individual contributor as well, writing code and designing applications and APIs.
• Design and develop advanced applications for mobile platforms (Mobile Apps and/or cloud services)
• Help own and deliver on the Team goals owned out of Bangalore by challenging the existing thinking and bringing on new technologies and solutions by applying your experience to guide the future of Citrix.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders across different business functions and located in different Geos.
• Lead the team through the development process and seek opportunity for continuous improvement and best practices on multiple projects of high complexity.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 9+ years of software development experience, with 1+ years in a Technical manager role
• Extremely deep understanding of mobile development frameworks and deep experience in cross platform application development such as React, React Native, Meteor
• Experience with iOS  frameworks   -   UIKit,   Core Foundation,   Core  Animation,  Core Graphics,   Autolayout,  AVFoundation,  SceneKit,  GCD etc.
• In depth Understanding of Apple’s recommended design principles, interface guidelines and and best practices for coding
• Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON and Web Services
• Strong foundational knowledge on computer science principles
• Sound Agile planning and Design skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, to drive collaboration and innovation.
• Experience and interest in guiding and leading team members of other teams