iOS Developer (Senior)

About the Role

Discovery – Group Information Services - Digital Channels

Responsibilities

• This team is responsible for the Discovery member application published to the Play Store. They work with other Discovery business units to deliver innovative solutions to all members.
• iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.
• iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.
• Senior iOS developers must have a competent understanding of:
• The system development life cycle and can explain the developer’s role in each stage
• The defined system development tools, processes and workflows
• The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them
• The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it
• The technologies used and the systems components structure
• The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations
• Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:
• Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience
• Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.
• Perform accurate development estimation
• Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates
• Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community
• Maintain high standards
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can help with quality assurance and provide comments Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.
• Maintain and extend existing development activities
• Work with customers to determine project requirements
• Design software to fulfil customer requirements
• Develop software from requirements and specifications
• Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing
• Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines
• Documenting development work done

Requirements

• Behavioral Skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (English)
• Ability to work in a self-driven, complex environment with multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Ability to think abstractly
• Ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Clean code thinking
• Technical Skills
• Project Management
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Process Mapping
• Software testing pack design, functional testing
• Informatics degree or Diploma
• 4+ years’ experience developing iOS applications
• 2+ years’ user interface analyst experience
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Methodologies
• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
• Tools
• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)
• Technologies
• iOS
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development
• Other
• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

Preferred Qualifications

• Advantageous
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial