Where you’ll work

A boutique development house established in 2013 and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. This company’s specialty lies in the development of custom applications and websites for both desktop and mobile devices, but that's not where their service offering ends. This company also offers a holistic solution from development through to data analytics, SEO and design. Building intuitive system architectures that translate into perfect development rollouts for clients by developing cutting edge methodologies and rethinking old ways to break new ground and elevate the industry standard.

How you’ll role

The iOS developer will be responsible for the development and maintenance of applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. The candidate’s primary focus will be development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers, working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. To be successful in this position, you should have a good understanding of the iOS SDK, experience with unit tests, and demonstrate the ability to use common industry tools for software development including IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure; you need to be able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools. You will take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together, as well provide technical documentation describing contributions and contribute enhancements to the team’s best practices.

What you’ll do

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automatization
• Play a lead role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving other engineers
• Work in an agile environment
• Build dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate
• Build modular apps and migrating a monolithic app to a modular architecture