Team Lead, iOS Engineer

Company Description

Redzone helps manufacturers make more stuff for less while greatly improving the employee experience. While there is a lot of hype around digital transformation, the factory of the future, and Industry 4.0, the focus has been on the equipment and technology – not the people. At Redzone, we are all about the people, what we call “the connected worker.” We make frontline teams more engaged and more productive so their lives improve while contributing to positive business outcomes. We do this by combining exceptional software and world class coaching, giving our customers an average productivity increase of 22% in 90 days. Redzone brings together Production, Maintenance and Quality teams, improving the communications between those teams to resolve issues and increase output. Decision-making happens on the shop floor by the people doing the work, in real time, for immediate impact and a better overall employee experience.

With over 1000 customers, 1200 plants and 325,000 users, Redzone is changing the way people work – one plant at a time.

Job Description

This is a full-time position for direct hire to QAD-no visa sponsorship available. Employee must be currently located in Canada (Ontario highly preferred, Eastern Timezone required).

Responsibilities:

• To develop and maintain the QAD Redzone iOS and tvOS applications using Swift, UIKit, and Swift UI ensuring a seamless and efficient user experience for manufacturing front-line teams.
• Provide leadership to the Team by leading daily standup calls, guiding the team, removing roadblocks, and coaching when needed.
• Develop and enhance manufacturing workflows in the Redzone iOS and tvOS applications.
• Conduct one-on-one meetings to understand individual team members job satisfaction and long-term goals.
• Provide technical contributions to assist other team members, handle incidents, and guide project deliverables.
• Complete delivery work committed during the sprint to achieve business goals.
• Help the business maintain a competitive edge by leveraging the latest iOS technologies.
• Rely on feature flags to rapidly deploy and iterate on new features and lower the risk of delivering software to production.
• Provide subject matter expertise during incidents to resolve customer issues quickly.
• Participate in forums to explore interests outside of the sprint work and contribute ideas to continuously improve the system.
• Commit to the team to help the team and the wider business achieve our goals.

Qualifications

• Required languages: Swift and Obj-c (5+ years professional experience required)
• Strong technical expertise from previous experience is required.
• API-first design using Open Api Spec (OAS) 
• Xcode as the primary IDE
• Knowledgeable of iOS and tvOS leveraging UIKit and SwiftUI
• Comfortable developing RESTful APIs
• Comfortable with JSON
• Writing tests using XCTest
• Debugging code with Instruments for memory leaks
• Building charts using Swift Charts
• Trunk Based Development
• Launch Darkly Feature Flagging
• CI/CD GitHub Actions
• Experience mentoring junior developers 

Additional Information

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.

QAD Redzone helps to enable QAD’s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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