Principal Mobile Engineer

Job description

The Job in Short

At Backbase we build secure, enterprise-grade digital banking software used daily  by millions of people worldwide. As a Principal iOS Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the development of our product, following and improving our way of working, enforcing and refining our best practices, all the while contributing to create a strong engineering culture. Your mission is to help create the best banking experience for our customers.

Meet the Job

You will help design, build and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile Platform.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary squad that is responsible for delivering an end-to-end solution, from initial concept to fruition in one of our production-ready applications. You will be tasked with addressing complex business requirements and with translating them into technical designs and implementations. You will be expected to deliver high-quality, well-engineered software that is performant, clean and is easy to maintain.

As a squad member, you will contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests, documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and partners..

As a Principal iOS Engineer, you will lead, mentor and coach your colleagues, and help guide their professional growth. You will assess candidates and onboard new hires. As part of the iOS guild, you will be responsible for upholding our engineering standards across the product, proactively proposing and leading initiatives within your squad to reduce technical debt, improve the quality of your deliverables and increase the overall developer effectiveness.

How about you?

• You have 8+ years of relevant working experience working on complex iOS-based products;
• Banking domain experience is a welcome bonus
• You have strong communication and leadership skills
• You are a result-oriented engineer who is familiar with Agile software development practices and methodologies;
• You are accustomed to translating high-level business requirements into technical designs and coach your peers to do the same;
• You have a strong engineering culture and you thrive in a complex domain;
• Security and other non-functionals don't scare you and you have what it takes to uphold our high standards;
• You have technical experience with architecture patterns like MVVM, VIPER or MVP;
• You know all aspects of the SDLC and have experience working in a CI/CD fashion.
• You are familiar with Bitrise and GitHub actions
• We won’t have to tell you anything about mobile development for iOS – you will teach us your best practices;
• Java and Kotlin hold no secrets for you;
• You understand the value of proper documentation, automation and other aspects of a modern software development lifecycle;
• Backbase is rapidly expanding, and you will deliver speedy and cost-efficient solutions