iOS Developer

About the Role

We are looking to hire a talented iOS developer to design, build, and maintain the next generation of iOS applications. Your primary focus will be developing high-end iOS applications for the latest Apple mobile devices. Your duties may include collaborating with the product team and Tech team for new application features, identifying and fixing application bottlenecks, maintaining the core code, and updating applications published on the App Store.

To ensure success as an iOS developer, you should have a strong working knowledge of iOS Frameworks, be proficient in Swift, and be able to work as part of a team. Ultimately, an outstanding iOS developer should be able to create functional, attractive applications that perfectly meet the needs of the user.

Job Responsibilities

• Proficient in Swift, and Objective-C
• Design and implement new features, improvements, ensuring high performance, responsiveness, and a seamless user experience
• Providing implementation detail of feature and documentation
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as UIKit, SwiftUI
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and networking libraries
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Maintain and enhance the existing codebase while adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Developing and implementing architecture to support user interface concepts.
• familiarity with App Approval and Submission procedure
• Knowledge of Push notifications 
• Implement secure coding practices to ensure data protection and user privacy

Experience & Skills Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in iOS development.
• Proficient in Objective-C, SwiftUI, 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.

Min 3 yrs of working in Android

Min 2 yrs of working in iOS

Min 6 months working in React Native

Min 1 yr of team handling experience

Development

Strong in data structures and algorithms

Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

Hands-on with SOLID design principles

Should have developed and delivered successful mobile app projects

Experience in -

Consumer facing apps

Analytics SDKs integrations

Marketing SDKs integrations

Performance optimisation

SQL databases

Building production grade mobile applications

Experience in working in Agile/Scrum projects and fast paced environments

Preference for candidates with :

Payments/financial systems background

Personality

Result oriented

Initiative taker. Not expecting spoon feed.

Team player - looking beyond personal KRAs and helping the team succeed

3H - Humble, Honest and Hard-worker

•Strong in Android, Kotlin, and MVVM architectural pattern

•Great understanding of Coroutines, Memory management, and App performance

•Solid understandings of Connectivity - BLE, WiFi

•Unit and Instrumentation testing knowledge in Espresso, JUnit4 or JUnit5, and Mockito/MockK libraries

•Experience in Dependency Injection - Hilt, Dagger2

•Good knowledge in screen navigation using Navigation APIs

•Good to have knowledge in Jetpack Compose

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. 

Who we are

ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

The iOS Team

Our iOS team is always keen to stay ahead of the curve by always adopting the latest tech in the valley. We were first to market with adopting iPhone X layout, implementing ARKit in 2017, and Siri Shortcuts in 2018. We have been featured across app store over a dozen times in the past 2 years in Today, Apps, and Travel section.

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Culture: ixigems enjoy a fun and rewarding work atmosphere. We do not believe in hierarchies, and we encourage communication and constructive collaboration. We believe in the personal growth of individuals, creative approaches to solve real-world problems, and questioning the status quo!

• Relevant experience in building a mobile application using React Native.
• Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components for mobile and implementing them following well-known React workflows. (such as Flux or Redux)
• You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. 
• You will be coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. 
• Should have published at least 2 live hybrid mobile applications. 
• Good understanding of Android / iOS / Web design guidelines, SDK and excellent JavaScript skills. 
• Expertise in RESTful APIs development. 
• Expertise with code testing best practices, including unit and integration testing to ensure a quality of code. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, TFS and Agile/SCRUM Development methodologies