Lead Software Developer

Job Description

Profession Technology Management
Career Stream Solution Development
Summary Role description
Mobile Application Developer with strong iOS skills

Purpose
Manages the technical design development and maintenance of mobile applications, associated CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and development tools using existing and emerging technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities
•Writes and delivers complex code for features, user stories, reusable modules, unit testing and automated functional testing; debugs existing code and modules
•Provides technical guidance to less experienced developers and other technical or non-technical stakeholders.
•Follows coding guidelines and QA practices and processes, and ensures they are followed by less experienced developers.
•Participates in backlog grooming, analysis of requirements, estimation, and design of new applications or new features.
•Supports colleagues in their drive to constantly improve the way we work and make working together a pleasant experience.
•Actively participate in all scrum events

Education and Professional Qualifications
•Degree in Computer Sciences or Engineering, related field.
•Applicable vendor / technology certification or equivalent work experience
Experience
Skilled Developer/Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience developing, supporting, releasing, and optimizing mission-critical mobile apps, leveraging automation and DevOps processes to ensure repeatability and efficiency.

Knowledge and Skills – Mobile
Core Skills
– 5+ years developing native iOS apps (mandatory), native Android apps (highly valued)
– Experience with SwiftUI for creating modern iOS interfaces
– Swift, including a thorough understanding of ARC memory management, optionals, protocols and generics
– Async/await and Task management, ensuring efficient performance
– Understanding of structured/architectural coding patterns for maintainable applications
– Comprehensive testing expertise encompassing unit testing, TDD methodology and test coverage
– Experience developing mobile SDKs and integrating mobile apps with web-services and external APIs

Additional Technical Expertise
– Proficient in utilising Xcode debugging tools
– Thorough understanding of iOS application lifecycles

Nice to Have:
– Complete familiarity with App Store submission requirements, including certificate management, provisioning profiles and guidelines
– Experienced in Azure DevOps configuration, including automation pipelines and deployment workflows
– Experience with OWASP Mobile Top 10 and mitigation strategies
– Knowledge of secure data storage and encryption
– Expertise in certificate pinning implementation
– Understanding of iXGuard(ideal), obfuscation, certificate pinning, and other methods of securing apps
– Expertise in Flutter, Java and Kotlin (on Android)
– Strong skills in securing data on the local device using industry standard encryption technologies including key management solutions
– Experience with push notification frameworks
– Experience with mobile payment solutions (Stripe would be ideal)
– Experience with publishing apps to App Store and Google Play, and associated release management activities
– Experience with A/B testing would be highly valued
– Experience developing with other mobile frameworks (desirable) and microservices development
Knowledge and Skills – General
• Solid knowledge of SOA: XML Web Services, SOAP and Microservices architecture (desirable).
• Solid knowledge of JSON
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud would be an advantage.
• Good knowledge of developing and designing code to interface to one or more RDBMS databases.
• Demonstrate good understanding of networking concepts.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply application design concepts: MVC and MVVM, object-oriented design, design patterns, database development.
• Demonstrate the ability to use DataSet, SQL, and stored procedures.
• Any experience or understanding of biometrics would be highly valued.
• Any experience or understanding of ADB2C would be highly valued.
• Any experience with Google Analytics and/or Remote Config would be highly valued
• Advanced knowledge of source code management (git) and branching strategies that work for DevOps.
• Demonstrate an understanding of trade-offs and risks with programming choices.

Profession Competencies
•Technical Troubleshooting
•Info. Security Management
•Application Testing
•Accuracy/Attention to Detail
•Ability to work well both independently or as a member of a team.
•Demonstrate an ability to consider other viewpoints and guide others toward a good solution.
•Willingness to learn, grow and help others is mandatory