Lead iOS Developer

Location Sydney CBD
Discipline DevOps & Infrastructure
Job reference 176794
Salary Negotiable
Consultant email [email protected]

About The Role & Team

Manages the technical design development and maintenance of mobile applications, associated CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and development tools using existing and emerging technology platforms.

What you will be doing

  • Writes and delivers complex code for features, user stories, reusable modules, unit testing and automated functional testing, debugs existing code and modules
  • Provides technical guidance to less experienced developers and other technical or non-technical stakeholders
  • Follows coding guidelines and QA practices and processes, and ensures they are followed by less experienced developers.
  • Participates in backlog grooming, analysis of requirements, estimation, and design of new applications or new features.
  • Actively participate in all scrum events

Skills

  • Degree in Computer Sciences or Engineering, related field.
  • Applicable vendor / technology certification or equivalent work experience
  • Skilled Developer/Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience developing, supporting, releasing, and optimizing mission-critical mobile apps, leveraging automation and DevOps processes to ensure repeatability and efficiency.
  • 5+ years developing native iOS apps (mandatory), native Android apps (highly valued)
  • Experience with SwiftUI for creating modern iOS interfaces - Swift, including a thorough understanding of ARC memory management, optionals, protocols and generics - Async/await and Task management, ensuring efficient performance - Understanding of structured/architectural coding patterns for maintainable applications
  • Comprehensive testing expertise encompassing unit testing, TDD methodology and test coverage
  • Experience developing mobile SDKs and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external API

Desirable but not essential

  • Complete familiarity with App Store submission requirements, including certificate management, provisioning profiles and guidelines
  • Experienced in Azure DevOps configuration, including automation pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Experience with OWASP Mobile Top 10 and mitigation strategies
  • Knowledge of secure data storage and encryption
  • Expertise in certificate pinning implementation
  • Understanding of iXGuard(ideal), obfuscation, certificate pinning, and other methods of securing apps
  • Expertise in Flutter, Java and Kotlin (on Android)
  • Strong skills in securing data on the local device using industry standard encryption technologies including key management solutions
  • Experience with push notification frameworks
  • Experience with mobile payment solutions (Stripe would be ideal)
  • Experience with publishing apps to App Store and Google Play, and associated release management activities
  • Experience with A/B testing would be highly valued
  • Experience developing with other mobile frameworks (desirable) and microservices development