Senior iOS Developer

Job Title: Senior iOS Developer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, Birmingham, AL, Pheonix, AZ, or Denver, CO | Onsite
Employment Type: Permanent
Duration: Full-time

About:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7 countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work® Certified™' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented individual like you to join our team as a senior Mobile developer and play a key role in shaping the future of the platform that we are building for the clients.
This candidate will serve as a technical expert of a large scale mobile development project consisting of both on shore and off shore developers. The Mobile Developer will work together with Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts and Technical Managers to build native applications. The Mobile Developer will be responsible for ensuring the team is creating functional, scalable, maintainable code utilizing existing customer patterns.
Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for sound and high quality technical deliverables.
• Analyze, quantize and estimate the amount of work for every sprint or release.
• Understand the requirements, current state architecture of the enterprise and create roadmap for the future enhancements accordingly
• Develop mobile application code in coordination with other team members.
• Integrate the mobile applications with the centralized authentication application.
• Create Software Architecture Document, High Level and Low Level Design document, Nonfunctional requirements for the project.
• Work in an Agile environment and adapt to the changing needs and requirements of the business.
• Always be ready to be hands on to develop or fix issues to deliver on time and with highest quality.
• Work closely with BA/QA team members to create test plans, and ensure that the issues are properly identified, fixed, and tested.
• Ensure that software design patterns like MVP, MVVM are strictly followed. Objective is to define consistent layers in the software to ensure maintainability and longevity of the code.
• Groom the team and develop the application with customer centric ideas and innovation as the core of every activity help the team attain a benchmark within the organization for others to follow and achieve.
• Escalate issues and concerns to the leads in a timely manner to avoid impacts to timelines.
• Effective participant of requirements gathering requirements analysis
• Exceptional applying the technologies and domain knowledge with the delivery of developed components or integrated components.
• Exceptional at working problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires review of a variety of factors.
• Exceptional at triage or analysis of situations for production support.
• Knowledge on biometric authentication and device capabilities like Camera, Phone state, Location, Notifications, Permissions management etc.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 7 years of experience with mobile development.
• 5 years of experience with iOS App Development on Swift, Swift UI and Objective C
• Strong Object oriented background
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with XCode for coding, debugging, and deploying iOS apps.6. Experience with offline storage, threading, performance tuning and mobile memory management.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back end services.
• Familiarity with app architecture patters MVC, MVP, MVVM.9. 4 Experience integrating with RESTful API's and JSON
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low level C based libraries is preferred.13. Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems for code management.
• Experience with XCTestFramework and XCUITestFramework.
• Exceptional at component and unit testing of following standard practices and methodologies.
• Excel with on time delivery with minimal supervision18. Strong agile/scrum development experience
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams20. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits:

Benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well being programs