Intermediate iOS Developer (DVT-IC)

Job Title: Intermediate iOS Developer
Reports to: Service Delivery Manager
ROLE OVERVIEW
The employed individual will be challenged with access to a range of projects at clients across industries, working with other experienced technologists whose single pursuit is optimal value creation for our customers through the construction of peerless solutions. This dynamic self- starting individual will be involved in the definition of development best practices and serve as team’s authority on creation of code quality and development of sound front-end architecture to ensure successful delivery on hundreds of software development assignments. You would have the opportunity to be involved with both consulting projects and internal projects.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
Interaction design and user experience guidelines
iOS – Objective C and Swift
Design patterns
Parsing and consuming XML and JSON
Working with RESTful services
Unit testing, integration and functional testing
Using version control systems – Git, SVN, TFS
Solutions design and implementation
Improving the design of existing code
Keep up to date with technology
System design and analysis
Ability to conceptualise and simplify complex problems
Ability to read/write specifications
Awareness of environment
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
3 - 4 years’ experience in mobile software development
Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry
Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)
FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES:
Strong written and oral communication skills
Creative eye for details
Positive attitude
Able to multitask effectively
Display excellent time management, task planning and prioritisation skills
Able to adapt quickly to changing client requirements
Able to work effectively with minimal supervision
Work under pressure
Enthusiastic and committed
Work in a team environment
Delivery focused
Professional
Motivated
Show initiative
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Developing, maintaining and debugging of software applications
Testing of independent modules and complete applications making use of automated and manual testing techniques
Working with project managers, technical leads and customers to provide task estimates, report on progress and discuss implementation details
Following and contributing to the improvement of software architecture, coding standards and practices being observed within the team environment
Designing of solutions that are maintainable, efficient, performant and secure
Refactoring source code to improve system design
Resolving software defects in collaboration with software test analysts
Conducting peer reviews of project code
Consume and create technical documentation such as specification documents, UML diagrams, user stories, wireframes etc.
Using a version control system to manage code changes
Configure, optimise and deploy applications for public release
Managing the submission of applications to online repositories and app stores
MINIMUM EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:
Knowledge of iOS First party API’s / Frameworks ( AV Foundation, WatchKit, CoreGraphics, MapKit, CoreImage etc.)
Creation of Universal Apps for iPhone and iPad OS
Sufficient knowledge of third-party libraries (AlarmoFire, Realm, Cocopods, RxSwift etc.)
Fastlane
Knowledge of common iOS Design patterns
Knowledge of Dependency Injection and Frameworks (Swinject)
Good knowledge of Jetpack libraries ( Navigation, Room., ViewModels, Work Manager etc.)
Understanding of different programming paradigms (Reactive, Functional, POP etc.)
MutiThreading in iOS

Employment type
Independent Contractor

Work arrangement
No