Remote iOS Engineer

Summary

Join Sporty as an iOS developer to be part of the greenfield development of one of Africa's most popular iOS apps, expanding into global territories. As a key member of the team, you'll collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience developing consumer-facing iOS applications using Swift
• Experience developing, delivering, and supporting native iOS applications by integrating REST APIs, push notifications and multithreaded experience
• Solid foundation around software engineering fundamentals, object-oriented programming, MVC architecture, and iOS design patterns
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, memory management, networking, caching, performance optimisation , localisation , and security for mobile applications
• A creative approach to problem solving and crafting simplified solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS
• Build end-to-end features of the app, such as networking, persistence, business logic and UI
• Prepare and maintain documents that include architectural diagrams and navigation maps in your area of expertise
• Analyse and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential issues in systems and procedures across the organisation , as well as design and recommend new solutions
• Participate in code reviews with team members to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate
• Mentor less experienced team members

Preferred Qualifications

Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team would be beneficial

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• Flexible hours outside of core hours (10am-3pm)
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual company retreat