IOS Mobile Developer

Role: IOS Application Mobile Developer

Location: London / Remote

Duration: 6 Months

Day rate: -605 Umbrella Only

You will be part of the team that will be responsible for developing and maintaining features for the iOS variant of the client App. Working in a multi-disciplinary team of tech, design, business, product, infrastructure, and test, you will help to design, develop, test and deliver new features while also maintaining existing features. You will be involved throughout the entire product lifecycle being chiefly responsible for producing high-quality, performant, well-documented and tested features that deliver a first-class experience to millions of users across England.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a multi-disciplinary team to design, document and develop high quality, scalable solutions for the App''s iOS application using Swift and Swift UI.
• Create appropriate unit and integration tests for your work.
• Write clean, maintainable and ePicient code, which follows best practices and coding standards.
• Optimise solutions for performance and speed to provide an excellent user experience.
• Ensure the application meets the Apple App Store requirements.
• Work closely with UI/ UX designers to ensure the application implements a consistent visual intuitive design.
• Support what you deliver in production.

The ideal candidate must:

• Have 5+ years'' experience of iOS development using Swift, Swift UI and Xcode.
• Be passionate about mobile development, keeping up to date with the latest iOS development trends and best practices.
• Have a good understanding of iOS design principles and interface guidelines.
• Be someone who embraces collaboration when building solutions.
• Have a good understanding of MVVM Architecture and associated design patterns.
• Be able to apply SOLID principles to improve the code structure, quality and maintainability.
• Have a DevOps mindset, understanding how software and infrastructure work together.
• Have a good understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery and how these are implemented via the use of pipelines.
• Proactively look for solutions to any issues that arise in your domain.
• Have experience with troubleshooting/ debugging application bugs and making performance improvements.
• Have experience with using Swift package manager.
• Have an understanding of mobile app analytics and its use to maintain stable, crash free applications.
• Have experience with using native OS features such as push notifications, HealthKit and App Intents.
• Have experience of integrating with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in handling concurrency (e.g. background tasks/ network activity without blocking the UI thread)

Nice to have:

• Understanding the compilation process and how the code gets converted into an executable.
• Knowledge or experience of using FHIR.
• Understanding of good memory management practices, handling reference counting and/ or garbage collection.