Senior iOS Developer

About Urban Company:

Urban Company is a tech-enabled home services marketplace. Customers use our platform to book services, such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage therapy, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, painting , which are delivered in the comfort of their home and at a time of their choosing. We promise our customers a high quality, standardized and reliable service experience. To fulfill this promise, we work closely with our hand-picked service partners, enabling them with technology, training, products, tools, financing, insurance, and brand, helping them succeed and deliver.

Urban Company is India’s largest AC servicing company - and India’s largest chain of salons for women. With presence in India, UAE, Singapore,Urban Company is already India and the UAE’s largest home services company

Ideal candidate:

If you are an iOS developer with a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile ecosystem. You are comfortable working on our existing codebase, developing new apps, and optimizing them for a fast and delightful user experience.

About the team

We have an in-house frontend platform - “Orion” that provides simplified APIs such that backend developers are now able to deliver android, iOS, web code without having to code in frontend technologies. Urban Company’s apps are developed using this platform. This platform has helped reduce FE development time by 50%

You can visit https://orion.urbancompany.com/ for more information on Orion and to keep yourself updated about the platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You will design and build advanced mobile features and custom UI.
• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• You will continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• You will optimize the app for speed and memory.
• Keeping the app stable and secure at all times.
• Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Having 2-5 yrs of experience
• You are a software engineer who thinks & speaks in Swift.
• You have a Bachelors / Masters degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related subject.
• You have a solid understanding of the full lifecycle of mobile development, testing, publishing, and DevOps.
• You have a good knowledge of networks and distributed systems.
• Your attention to detail is the stuff of legends (every second, byte, and pixel counts).
• You enjoy working with a lean, fast-paced team willing to jump on tasks (planned / out of nowhere / ambiguous), without spilling your coffee.
• You are equal parts left and right brain - you focus on the tech and logic as much as you are obsessed with the UX and customer delight.
• You are looking to restore balance to the universe through clean code.
• You are a flawless multi-tasker, able to smoothly transition between features, bugs, projects and languages.
• You have complete expertise in the general mobile landscape, design, trends, and emerging technologies.
• You have experience working with iOS third-party libraries and APIs.
• You have an understanding of iOS ipa generation.

Bonus Points:

• You have experience in React native.
• You have developed apps on React Native.
• You are popular on StackOverflow for answering challenging questions.
• Your GitHub profile showcases a list of original contributions.

Psst… tips on how you can beat the competition:

If you can showcase your abilities to:

• Be a self-driven / quick starter
• Have an ownership mindset
• Aggressively drive and deliver results

If you fit the above description, we would love to connect with you! APPLY NOW