Mobile iOS Engineer

Summary

Join NPR Audience Technology as a Mobile Engineer and contribute to the development of high-performing iOS applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and editorial staff, to deliver exceptional listening, reading, and viewing experiences across all platforms. You will be involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from planning and development to release and maintenance. This role requires a minimum of three years of mobile development experience and proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, and is a remote-permitted role based out of Washington, DC.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of mobile development experience in a professional environment
• Experience leading or collaborating on iOS feature development through deployment to production
• Experience documenting architecture and system designs
• Experience with Swift and SwiftUI
• Creativity, initiative, thirst for innovation & learning
• Acute attention to detail
• Ability to analyze needs from both internal and external stakeholders & offer technical solutions based on those needs
• Vigor for crafting well-tested, well-documented & elegantly structured code
• Thrives in a collaborative / cooperative environment
• Empathy for users and passion for crafting great user experiences
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Experience working on a professional development team in an Agile environment
• Experience managing a production iOS application with App Store Connect and other performance monitoring services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCi, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Experience with rapid prototyping
• Experience managing, updating, and replacing legacy code
• Expertise in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and Swift Concurrency, Objective-C
• Reactive frameworks such as Combine & RxSwift
• Proficiency in object-oriented & protocol-oriented programming skills
• Experience in understanding of design patterns & software architecture (specifically concepts such as dependency injection, MVVM)
• Unit Testing frameworks (preferably XCTest)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with Git (bonus if you can use it via the command line.)
• Experience managing external dependencies (CocoaPods/Swift Package Manager.)

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with other iOS Engineers to develop new product features, working closely with designers, product managers, our Editorial team and other stakeholders
• Contribute to system architecture, processes, and other business requirements
• Coordinate with stakeholders on requirements or business needs throughout core business hours
• Break down statements of work into achievable goals and tickets for a given sprint
• Effective communicator, able to articulate robust solution designs, as well as technology constraints, to audiences internal and external to the department
• Maintain the existing codebase, optimizing performance, adding unit tests, refactoring existing code as needed using a test-driven development mindset
• Contribute to all aspects of our SDLC, from planning to development to code reviews to release, maintenance, and after hours support
• Participate in initiatives for system and/or process improvements. Evaluates and recommends new technology solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• A passion for NPR’s content and/or familiarity with our digital products
• Experience in AVFoundation, Core Data, SQLite, CarPlay, Widgets
• Programming experience or interest in Kotlin, Android, Chromecast, or Alexa

Benefits

• Access to health and wellness
• Paid time off
• Financial well-being
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life/ accidental death and dismemberment
• Long-term disability
• Short-term disability
• Voluntary retirement savings