Senior Software Engineer (iOS)

Company Description

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.

Job Description

Project – the aim you’ll have

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will partner with the Product, Operations, Design, and Editorial teams to bring our content to life. You will be a significant influence on our product roadmap, bringing a technical and strategic perspective. You will work alongside fellow inspired developers in a fast-paced environment using Swift to help shape the future of digital news. You will have the opportunity to work on a highly diverse, collaborative, and inclusive team. This team invests in learning opportunities and sets aside time each week for a classroom-like environment where the group can bounce ideas off one another, share passions, and learn new concepts. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on applications that impact hundreds of thousands of users.

Position – How You’ll Contribute

• Work with a team to design and implement native mobile apps for iOS platforms
• Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing architectural improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms
• Analyze and optimize application code for efficiency, reliability and performance
• Work with minimal technical supervision and supplemental engineering support
• Embrace a highly collaborative team that rewards quality code and effective communication
• Stay current with the latest development best practices
• Lead design and code reviews
  
  

Qualifications

Expectations – the experience you need

• Ability to work within the ET time zone is required.
• Demonstrated ability in developing complex, high-traffic iOS applications
• A minimum of 5 years hands-on professional development experience with Swift
• Experience with and solid understanding of multithreaded programming and API layer programming
• Experience working on a significant consumer app that is currently available in marketplace
• Demonstrated experience developing applications leveraging XML/JSON
• Solid understanding of data models and data access architecture and optimization
• Solid understanding of multi-tier web architectures, and OO design patterns and concepts
• Solid understanding of server-side software, scalability, performance, and reliability
• Solid understanding of HTTP and REST-style web services
• Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems
• Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as ability to work independently
• Expert in software engineering best practices
• Experience with agile software development practice, scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc
  
  

Additional Skills – The Edge You Have

• Experience working with video-on-demand and/or linear video playback
• Experience using GraphQL
• Published one or more applications available on Apple App Store
  
  

Additional Information

Our offer – professional development, personal growth

• Flexible employment and remote work
• International projects with leading global clients
• Non-corporate atmosphere
• Internal & external training
• Private healthcare and insurance
• Multisport card