iOS Swift Developer Full Time Permanent

iOS Swift Developer – Johannesburg

An iOS Swift Developer job vacancy is currently available in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

What’s better than writing code that reaches millions of concurrent users globally? Doing it with millions more in mind.

We are looking for Backend Engineers who are passionate about building a modern, scalable and resilient platform and want to contribute to our mission of pushing the boundaries.

A young, vibrant start-up company is looking for experienced hires to join their team. If you feel like you have what it takes, read on further and apply.

Responsibilities / Key Traits of the iOS Swift Developer:

• Excellent technical awareness and skills, prior development experience of shipping iOS applications (SWIFT)
• Experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers
•  Experience working with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) with different goals, objectives and aspirations
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate
• Experience building modular apps, or migrating a monolithic app to a modular architecture
• Knowledge of development best practices, including coding guidelines
• Experience with apps interacting with an AWS backend and knowledge of AWS SDKs
• Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a plus, including experience working with video playback on iOS apps

Requirements – iOS Swift Developer:

• 5 Years of experience preferred
• Proficient with Swift
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools {{such as Instruments and Shark}}
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{such as Git, Mercurial or SVN}}
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Familiarity with Video Streaming development
• Graph QL Data consumption

Necessary knowledge – iOS Swift Developer:

• iOS Swift
• SOLID Principles
• RxSwift
• AVFoundation Framework
• tvOS Development
• Fastlane
• StoreKit Framework (In App Purchases API)
• Strong experience with XCTest for both Unit and UI Testing
• XCode
• JIRA
• Teams

NOTE: You don’t need to be an expert in all those technologies, but a willingness to learn and basic knowledge in some would be a benefit.

Personality:

Adaptable, Goal-oriented, Intuitive, Self-confident, Team Player

Success Criteria – iOS Swift Developer:

• To be successful in this position, you should have a good understanding of the iOS SDK and have experience with unit tests.
• You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools.
• You are able to take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together.
• You are able to provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices.

Salary:

Based on skills and experience

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Tagged as: Agile, Development, iOS Frameworks, iOS Swift, RxSwift