iOS Developer

Confidential; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Opportunity in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced iOS Developer to join a technology product team. You will build and maintain high-scale native iOS apps focused on live video streaming, media delivery, and real-time troubleshooting.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in native iOS, strong Swift/SwiftUI skills, and experience with HLS, REST APIs, and Core Data/SQLite. You will collaborate with backend and product teams to deliver scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of native iOS development experience
• Proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI
• Strong knowledge of Objective-C
• Experience with live/video streaming architectures (HLS)
• Familiarity with MVVM, MVP or VIPER patterns
• Excellence with Xcode, Instruments, profiling and debugging
• Experience scalable apps with millions of users
• REST APIs and JSON integration
• Core Data/SQLite
• Git and CI/CD (Fastlane)

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance native iOS apps using Swift/SwiftUI
• Build features and custom components from ground up
• Work on live streaming and video delivery optimization
• Implement and optimize HLS/video streaming workflows
• Profile, debug, and resolve memory leaks and performance issues
• Ensure real-time app stability, responsiveness and scalability
• Collaborate with backend, product and engineering teams
• Apply MVVM/MVP/VIPER architecture and good design patterns
• Integrate REST APIs/JSON and local persistence
• Contribute to CI/CD and release processes

Skills

Native iOS

Swift

SwiftUI

Objective-C

Live streaming

HLS

Xcode Tools

MVVM

MVP

VIPER

REST APIs

JSON

Core Data

SQLite

Git

Fastlane

WebRTC

Job description

Confidential Opportunity – iOS Developer | Abu Dhabi

We are hiring an experienced iOS Developer for a confidential technology product team based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The role will focus on developing and maintaining high-scale native iOS applications, with particular emphasis on live video streaming, media delivery, application performance, and real-time troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance native iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
• Build new features and custom components from the ground up.
• Work on live streaming and video-based applications and optimize media delivery workflows.
• Work with HLS/video streaming architecture, playback performance and optimization.
• Diagnose and resolve memory leaks, crashes, performance bottlenecks and other complex issues using Xcode and Instruments.
• Perform advanced profiling, debugging and performance analysis.
• Troubleshoot and tune real-time applications for stability, responsiveness and scalability.
• Collaborate with backend, product and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Apply appropriate software architecture and design patterns such as MVVM, MVP or VIPER.
• Develop and maintain unit tests and follow engineering best practices.
• Work with REST APIs, JSON/XML and local persistence technologies such as Core Data/SQLite.
• Contribute to CI/CD and release processes using Git and Fastlane.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of professional native iOS development experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Swift and SwiftUI.
• Good working knowledge of Objective-C.
• Proven experience with live streaming, video streaming, OTT Platform or media delivery.
• Strong understanding of HLS and video streaming architecture.
• Advanced experience with Xcode Instruments, profiling and debugging.
• Experience troubleshooting real-time application performance.
• Experience developing applications at significant scale / millions of users.
• Strong understanding of iOS architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with REST APIs and JSON.
• Experience with Core Data / SQLite.
• Experience with Git and Fastlane.
• Exposure to WebRTC/HLS/IVS is a Must
• Experience writing unit tests and using iOS testing frameworks.