iOS Developer - Objective C/SWIFT

Required Skills: Advanced Flutter & Dart Expertise, Scalable Mobile Architecture Design, Performance Optimization & Profiling, OTT & Media App Engineering, Code Quality, Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Criteria:

• 6+ years of total software development experience with minimum 3+ years in Flutter
• Product-based company experience is mandatory (B2C scale preferred)
• Proven ability to own end-to-end Flutter mobile architecture for high-scale apps
• Strong expertise in Dart, Flutter SDK internals, and advanced state management (Bloc / Riverpod / Provider)
• Hands-on experience with platform channels and native integrations (Android & iOS)
• Deep knowledge of performance optimization: app startup time, FPS, memory leaks, widget rebuilds, rendering pipeline
• Experience with profiling tools (Dart DevTools, Android Profiler, Xcode Instruments)
• Strong skills in offline-first architecture, caching layers, and API integrations
• Ability to optimize video playback, downloads, DRM, and OTT workflows
• Strong command of clean code, SOLID principles, and scalable mobile system design
• Experience reviewing code and mentoring engineers (Senior IC role)

Description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Flutter SDE III who can take complete ownership of architecture, performance optimization, and app scalability for our OTT mobile applications. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring deep technical expertise and the ability to influence design decisions at a product level.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Design (High-Impact IC Role)

• Own the end-to-end architecture of company’s Flutter mobile applications.

• Design scalable, modular, testable app ecosystems aligned with OTT-specific performance constraints.

• Lead decisions around state management, navigation hierarchy, API structure, offline capabilities, and security.

2. Performance & Device Optimization

• Diagnose and resolve mobile performance bottlenecks, including:

  o App startup time, FPS drops, memory leaks.

  o Heating issues, over-rendering, and expensive widget rebuilds.

  o Battery optimization, efficient network calls, caching strategy.

• Run in-depth profiling using tools like Dart DevTools, Android Profiler, and Xcode Instruments.

3. OTT-Specific Engineering

• Optimize video playback workflows for low-latency streaming.

• Implement efficient background processes for downloads, DRM, content sync, and push notifications.

4. Product & User Experience Ownership

• Collaborate closely with Product, Backend, and Video Engineering teams.

• Convert business/product requirements into high-performance technical solutions.

• Ensure UI/UX consistency across platforms while maintaining performance budgets.

5. Code Quality & Leadership

• Write clean, extensible, and maintainable code with strong adherence to SOLID and reactive programming principles.

• Review code for mid-level and junior engineers; act as a mentor across teams.

• Establish engineering standards, internal frameworks, and reusable components for long-term scalability.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 6+ years of total experience with 3+ years in Flutter for large-scale products.

• Mandatory product-based company background (B2C scale preferred).

• Strong expertise in:

  o Dart, Flutter SDK internals

  o Bloc, Riverpod, Provider, or other state management approaches

  o Custom animations, rendering pipeline, shader-based optimization

  o Platform channels (Android/iOS) and native integrations

  o API integration, caching layers, offline-first architecture

• Strong understanding of mobile system design, scalable architecture, and low-level performance engineering.

Good to Have

• Experience with video streaming apps, OTT platforms, or media-heavy applications.

• Understanding of analytics frameworks (Firebase, Segment, Mixpanel).

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and fastlane.

Personality & Mindset

• Product thinking, not just feature-building.

• Ownership-driven with strong ability to take strategic technical decisions.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced 0→1 and scale-up environment.

Why Join company?

• Work on a high-growth OTT app with millions of users.

• Opportunity to own the core mobile experience end-to-end.

• Build impact-heavy features at scale with a lean, highly skilled engineering team.

1. Integrate the design into high quality code
2. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of application
3. Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
4. Work along-side other developers working on different platform for the Application.
5. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, design implementation and creating quality product is essential

1. Minimum 2 years of experience in iOS Application Development
2. Proficient with iOS SDK, Swift and Cocoa Touch
3. Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
4. Must have already deployed at least one app on AppStore
5. Working knowledge of Web Services & REST (JSON) APIs, SQLite, Google API
6. Integration, Firebase
7. Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
8. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
9. Strong mobile UI design and implementation experience
10. Understanding of code versioning tools

Job Description:

• Min 4-5 years of experience in Mobile application development
• Min 2-year Experience in React Native app development
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax
• Follow best practices using Android Guidelines
• Knowledge of functional or object-oriented programming
• Technically strong in React-Redux/Mobx development and deep understanding of core mobile concepts such as lifecycle, UI, networking, caching, device features, etc
• Experiences with automated testing suites, like Jest or Mocha
• Experience integrating third-party frameworks. Worked with logging and capturing user navigation and app usage to Analytics and Crashlytics for understanding the most used features by users.
• Knowledge of mobile security and cryptography is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, or any tools that are similar to these.
• Experience with agile methodology is preferred
• Good communication skills
• Good knowledge of app telemetry integration & app performance management
• Have published at least 2 React Native apps on Play Store & Appstore

• Implement robust app architectures and complex user interfaces
• Component Design and coding new features. includes unit tests, debugs, and solves defects
• Component Design/Coding/Unit Testing/Debugging
• Responsible for designing app architecture and integration design to various external systems (APIs, 3rd Party SDK)
• Follow best practices using React Native Guidelines
• Understand reacting design patterns like HOC, Render Props, and their applications.
• Good understanding of atomic design principles
• Experience with CSS-in-js / styled-components
• Good understanding of Android & iOS working principles, Release process
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision
• Work on high-performance consumer-facing apps
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as jade, EJS, and pug).
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.
• Ability to make recommendations on UI design and UX best practices.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with an open-source iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks. 
• Work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products.  
• Build reusable iOS software components for the platform.  

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.   
• Work on bug fixing to improve application performance and shipping new features as required 
   

  Requirements:  

• Experience with iOS Design patterns, memory management, REST web-services and JSON Parsing. Designing and building advanced applications for the iOS platform 
•  Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features 

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance  
• Can integrate apps with backend and 3rd party API’s. 
• Good programming skills in Objective-C/Swift and extensive knowledge of Apples SDKs and frameworks like Core Data, Core Graphics, Foundation, UIKit, etc.  
• Have published one or more applications in an iOS App Store. 

• Knowledge of iOS App Store deployment process. 

Experience with developing native Applications for Android and iOS using Xcode, Objective C, Cocoa , iPhone SDK ,Android Studio and Android SDK.

- Hands on Experience with any mobile hybrid framework.

- Independently drive the design and development of mobile application project.

- Conceptualize and design Mobile applications based on need.

- Should have knowledge of Java, Objective C, Swift, GPS, SQLlite, Xcode IDE, iPhone UIKit framework.

- The coder should be well versed with using web services, Interface, Builder & Debugging tools, Google map kits, multitasking.

- Candidate must have independently designed and developed mobile applications

- Knowledge on App publishing process to Stores

- Familiarity with Push notifications, Payment Gateway Integrations, In-app purchases

- Proficient with API request and JSON Handling

- Expert and proficient in clean code best practices.

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

- Design and build advanced applications for the mobile 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.