Senior iOS Developer

Salt is excited to have teamed up a growing Sports Media Organisation based in Melbourne, who is currently seeking a Senior iOS Developer to join them on a permanent basis.

As an iOS Developer, you will have the opportunity to build solutions that engage millions of sports fans worldwide. Working with a wide range of data sources and native technologies, building custom experiences for sports fans. You will progress your own skills and expertise along the way, sharing and learning new technologies and techniques across the team.

Responsibilities

• Scoping and managing project tasks from requirements
• Assigning and tracking project tasks on behalf of other members of the development team
• Mentoring and supporting other team members.
• Identifying and managing dependencies within a project, across disciplines and externally
• Managing code releases to all environments (Dev, Test, Staging and Prod)
• Taking ownership of all progress within a project across the squad, tracking and communicating in own area of expertise
• Producing code to a high standard that not only functions correctly but can be understood and extended by other members of the team
• Showing good attention to detail in the final product, taking care and pride in what is produced, ensuring others do the same
• Communicating clearly to ensure the best possible solutions are built
• Developing own skills to get as many aspects to an expert level, as possible
• Sharing of ideas and techniques across the development team, contributing to and learning from the team as a whole
• Collaborating with other Senior Developers to set the team direction providing the support needed for the whole iOS Chapter to develop.

Possible extended responsibilities

• Line management of Developers (no more than 1 day a week). This includes performance reviews, time management, ongoing role support etc.
• Leading and motivating other members of the development team to fulfil their roles effectively, helping to develop their skills and knowledge
• Act as a Chapter Lead across own Chapter (area of expertise)
• Identify and establish technical based Guilds/Working Groups to support the progression of development techniques and technology

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• You will have a willingness and ability to adapt to new approaches
• Experience of working collaboratively within a development team
• Swift
• Xcode
• UIKit
• Combine and/or RxSwift
• Web service integration (REST, JSON)
• GIT usage and code management
• Integrating with and using third party libraries/applications (e.g. video providers)
• Full iOS development lifecycle from project creation to release signing
• Architecting and documenting iOS solutions and code
• SOLID Principles and application

Competent with

• Task/ticket management tools such as JIRA
• Persistent storage solutions such as Core Data
• Unit Tests and TDD

Desirable skills and knowledge

• SwiftUI
• Objective-C
• HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Working in large existing code bases

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.