iOS Engineer

Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in.

Sporty launched its first iOS app to its millions of users at the end of January 2021. As an iOS developer in our team, you’ll be on the ground floor for the greenfield development of one of Africa’s most popular iOS apps expanding into our latest global territories.

We are hiring at Mid and Senior level for multiple Engineers 

Our Stack

Languages: Swift

Architecture: MVC, MVVM

Layout: Programmatic UI, Xib

Testing: XCTest

Dependency management: Swift Package Manager

CI/CD: Fastlane, Github Action, Jenkins

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS
• Build end-to-end features of the app, such as networking, persistence, business logic and UI
• Prepare and maintain documents that include architectural diagrams and navigation maps in your area of expertise
• Analyse and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential issues in systems and procedures across the organisation, as well as design and recommend new solutions
• Participate in code reviews with team members to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate
• Mentor less experienced team members

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience developing consumer-facing iOS applications using Swift
• Experience developing, delivering, and supporting native iOS applications by integrating REST APIs, push notifications and multithreaded experiences
• Solid foundation around software engineering fundamentals, object-oriented programming, MVC architecture, and iOS design patterns
• Deep understanding of multi-threading, memory management, networking, caching, performance optimisation, localisation, and security for mobile applications
• A creative approach to problem solving and crafting simplified solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
• Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team would be beneficial

Bonus Requirements

• Experience with mobile video playback and streaming technologies
• Experience with reactive programming, e.g. RxSwift, Combine 
• Experience with AVFoundation, CoreData, WKWebView 
• Experience with TCP / IP socket

Interview Process

• HackerRank Test 
• Remote interview with 2 Engineers + Lead 
• 24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Benefits

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• Flexible working hours
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Education allowance
• Referral bonuses
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Annual Global and Team company retreats - we've already been to Lisbon and Dubai is also in planning for 2022!
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
• We score 100% on The Joel Test
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members