Intermediate iOS Developer (DVT-IC)

Job Title: Intermediate iOS Developer

Reports to: Service Delivery Manager

ROLE OVERVIEW

The employed individual will be challenged with access to a range of projects at clients across industries, working with other experienced technologists whose single pursuit is optimal value creation for our customers through the construction of peerless solutions. This dynamic self- starting individual will be involved in the definition of development best practices and serve as team’s authority on creation of code quality and development of sound front-end architecture to ensure successful delivery on hundreds of software development assignments. You would have the opportunity to be involved with both consulting projects and internal projects.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Interaction design and user experience guidelines
• iOS – Objective C and Swift
• Design patterns
• Parsing and consuming XML and JSON
• Working with RESTful services
• Unit testing, integration and functional testing
• Using version control systems – Git, SVN, TFS
• Solutions design and implementation
• Improving the design of existing code
• Keep up to date with technology
• System design and analysis
• Ability to conceptualise and simplify complex problems
• Ability to read/write specifications
• Awareness of environment

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:

• 3 - 4 years’ experience in mobile software development
• Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry
• Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES:

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Creative eye for details
• Positive attitude
• Able to multitask effectively
• Display excellent time management, task planning and prioritisation skills
• Able to adapt quickly to changing client requirements
• Able to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Work under pressure
• Enthusiastic and committed
• Work in a team environment
• Delivery focused
• Professional
• Motivated
• Show initiative

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Developing, maintaining and debugging of software applications
• Testing of independent modules and complete applications making use of automated and manual testing techniques
• Working with project managers, technical leads and customers to provide task estimates, report on progress and discuss implementation details
• Following and contributing to the improvement of software architecture, coding standards and practices being observed within the team environment
• Designing of solutions that are maintainable, efficient, performant and secure
• Refactoring source code to improve system design
• Resolving software defects in collaboration with software test analysts
• Conducting peer reviews of project code
• Consume and create technical documentation such as specification documents, UML diagrams, user stories, wireframes etc.
• Using a version control system to manage code changes
• Configure, optimise and deploy applications for public release
• Managing the submission of applications to online repositories and app stores

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:

• Knowledge of iOS First party API’s / Frameworks ( AV Foundation, WatchKit, CoreGraphics, MapKit, CoreImage etc.)
• Creation of Universal Apps for iPhone and iPad OS
• Sufficient knowledge of third-party libraries (AlarmoFire, Realm, Cocopods, RxSwift etc.)
• Fastlane
• Knowledge of common iOS Design patterns
• Knowledge of Dependency Injection and Frameworks (Swinject)
• Good knowledge of Jetpack libraries ( Navigation, Room., ViewModels, Work Manager etc.)
• Understanding of different programming paradigms (Reactive, Functional, POP etc.)
• MutiThreading in iOS