Senior iOS Developer (Kenya 3rd Party)

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Job Title:                        Senior iOS Developer

Reports to:                     Practice Head: Mobile Services

ROLE OVERVIEW

The successful individual would be responsible for the development, debugging and support of new and existing mobile applications, related services and databases.

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

INIMUM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

- 5+ years’ experience in mobile software development

- Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry

- Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

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

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

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 REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM EDUCATION

- Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:

- Tackle hard problems in iOS such as Graphics, Performance issues, Security, Bash scripting and build script issues

- Able to approach problems with BDD and TDD

- Being able to take on POC work in quick stints with vital feedback

- Knowledge of App Store connect and releasing of applications

- Being able to create Linting rules on top of the basic rules, Swift Lint

- Good understanding of DevOps in iOS

- Ability to modularise iOS applications with Cocoapods

- Carthage knowledge

- Knowledge of Swift package manager

- KeyChain management

- SSL pinning

- Instruments for profiling iOS Apps

- Scheme and build configuration management

In this position you will report to Practice Head: Mobile Services