Senior iOS Engineer

Who We Are

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We are looking for a senior iOS Engineer to join our flagship mobile engineering team. We work in the native tech stack and require an experienced native iOS Engineer to help us maximise performance and potential in crucial technical areas including audio, video, file download and management and native rendering. Your primary focus will be to design, develop, ship and maintain the features in the iOS app; and ensure the best performance and user experience of our applications. You’ll work with our collaborative team, where your knowledge and advice about application architecture and the latest mobile technologies will be highly appreciated.

The role will suit either an existing senior or a mid-level Native iOS engineer ready for their next challenge but with at least some experience mentoring a high-performing team. You should enjoy working with autonomy in a creative and entrepreneurial environment and have a solid commitment to producing high-quality code. We offer flexible working and have recently shifted to a 'remote first' working policy with a minimum expectation of coming to the office two days a month, however you can come in more often if you wish to.

Accountabilities

How you will contribute:

• Design, develop, ship and maintain Apple OS family platform capabilities.
• Develop reusable, testable, maintainable and modular code on Apple OS platform.
• Develop and collaborate with the engineering team to design and implement clean mobile architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features.
• Implement new user interfaces and features together with automated unit and integration tests, from specification to production.
  
  

Experience, Skills And Professional Attributes

What you’ll need to be successful:

• 8+ years of professional experience with iOS platform, proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI.
• Professional experience with test automation and methodologies.
• Deep understanding of UI development in iOS.
• Professional experience with app performance metrics and analytics.
• You’ll value well-thought-out and straightforward solutions to problems.
• Mentorship experience - you’ll have been seen as a go-to person in your last role.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong ownership, scrappy and biassed for action.
  
  

Plus

• Experience with Audio/Video consumer product development.
• Familiarity with common streaming protocols such as HLS, MPEG-DASH.
• Familiarity with audio & video player architecture.
• Familiarity with advertising technology such as pre-roll, mid-roll, SSAI.
  
  

Benefits

What we offer

We offer excellent benefits including an incentive programme, generous annual and parental leave policies, volunteering days and well-being support throughout the year, as well as free access to all Economist content. Country specific benefits are also offered.

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Inclusivity

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