iOS Tech Lead

Job Title: iOS Tech Lead

Duration: 3 months + (Contract-to-Hire)

Location: ONSITE downtown Miami - 4 days a week (Must be onsite from Day 1)

Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the iOS development team.
• Architect, design, and develop complex and high-performance iOS applications.
• Ensure adherence to iOS app design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code in Objective-C and Swift.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate mobile clients with microservices (REST-based APIs).
• Lead the implementation of testing strategies, including unit, integration, and UI tests using XCTest.
• Drive the adoption of architectural patterns such as MVP and MVVM.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Optimize applications for performance, battery life, and responsiveness.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest iOS platform advancements and industry trends.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Foster a shift-left, test-driven development culture within the team.
• Demonstrate strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and proactivity in all tasks.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience building complex, high-quality iOS applications.
• Strong knowledge of iOS app design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Strong proficiency in Objective-C and Swift programming languages.
• Experience with popular iOS frameworks and libraries.
• Deep understanding of the iOS platform, including different device capabilities, battery life, performance, and notifications.
• Proven experience in developing, releasing, and maintaining iOS applications in the App Store.
• Solid experience writing unit and integration tests using XCTest.
• Experience with architectural patterns like MVP and MVVM.
• Excellent ability to communicate complicated technical problems to both technical and business audiences.
• Strong knowledge of REST architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating mobile clients with microservices (REST-based APIs).
• Demonstrated bias for a shift-left, test-driven development approach.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and proactivity.

Preferred Technology Experience:

• Experience with test automation frameworks across multiple mobile platforms, such as Selenium and Appium.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Experience with distributed databases such as Couchbase or Realm.
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools like Jira and Bitbucket.