Mobile Developer

emergiTEL Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

emergiTEL Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, is hiring a Mobile Developer to own and evolve the native iOS and Android SDKs that partners embed in their apps, serving as the client-side entry point to identity and fraud-prevention services.

The role emphasizes SDK engineering over app work, building a lightweight, well-documented library with strong backward compatibility, privacy controls, and clear integration steps for fintech customers.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, SE, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, testing, and release of native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) SDKs end to end.

Skills

Swift

Kotlin

Public API design

CI/CD

Security awareness

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Swift Package Manager

CocoaPods

XCFramework

Maven Central/Gradle

Job description

emergiTEL is hiring a Mobile Developer for our client in the Digital identity industry. This is a Permanent role.

Compensation: $100,000 - $120,000/year
Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description (English)

Role Overview

• The Mobile Developer owns the native iOS and Android SDKs that partners embed in their own applications, serving as the client-side entry point to identity and fraud-prevention services, including SIM-based authentication aligned with GSMA standards.
• This is SDK engineering rather than app engineering. The deliverable is a small, stable, well-documented library that other developers integrate once and depend on for years.
• The role covers the full product surface, including public API design, deep platform and mobile-networking work, packaging and release, reference applications, and integration documentation.
• Because the SDKs run inside banking and fintech applications, correctness, backward compatibility, binary footprint, and privacy are treated as first-class requirements.

What You’ll Do

• Own the design, development, testing, and release of the native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) SDKs end to end.
• Design public SDK interfaces that are small, hard to misuse, and stable across releases, with deliberate versioning, deprecation, and backward-compatibility practices.
• Handle the realities of mobile networks, including Wi-Fi and cellular transitions, dual-SIM and eSIM devices, captive portals, carrier variation, timeouts, and retry behaviour.
• Keep the SDK lightweight and dependency-light by minimizing binary footprint, avoiding transitive dependency conflicts inside host applications, and collecting no more data than an integration requires.
• Build and maintain reference applications and sample integrations for both platforms that demonstrate real, production-shaped integration paths.
• Write and own developer-facing documentation, including integration guides, API references, migration notes, and troubleshooting runbooks.
• Own SDK distribution and release engineering, including Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, XCFramework, Maven Central/Gradle, signed artifacts, changelogs, and reproducible CI builds.
• Define a test strategy appropriate to code that cannot be hot-fixed in production, including unit tests, instrumented and device-farm testing across OS versions and device models, and simulated carrier conditions.
• Support partner integration teams by triaging integration issues, reproducing customer-reported failures from logs, and feeding that feedback into API and documentation improvements.
• Instrument the SDK for diagnostics and error reporting that helps partners debug quickly without exposing end-user data.
• Track iOS and Android platform releases and proactively address breaking changes in permissions, privacy manifests, and network stack behaviour.
• Partner with Backend, QA, and Security teams on service contracts, test coverage, and security reviews surrounding the SDK.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies as part of a Scrum team, helping drive feature delivery and platform modernization.

What You Bring

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional mobile development experience.
• Experience building and shipping SDKs or libraries consumed by third-party developers is a strong asset.
• Current, hands-on production experience on both platforms: Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android.
• Proven public API design skills, including interface design, semantic versioning, deprecation strategy, thread-safety guarantees, and clear error-handling contracts.
• Strong understanding of mobile networking, including HTTP/TLS, certificate handling, connection lifecycle, radio and Wi-Fi transitions, and behavior under unreliable network conditions.
• Experience packaging and distributing libraries using Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, XCFramework, Maven Central/AAR, including artifact signing and release processes.
• Strong asynchronous and concurrency skills using Swift Concurrency/GCD and Kotlin Coroutines.
• Solid automated testing discipline for library code, including mocking network layers and testing across OS versions and device configurations.
• Proficiency with Git and CI/CD tools for mobile development such as Fastlane, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar.
• Security-conscious mindset with experience in secure storage (Keychain, Android Keystore), certificate pinning, code obfuscation, and careful handling of personal information.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce integration documentation that partner developers can follow without requiring support.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a detail-oriented approach to compatibility and edge cases.

What Sets You Apart

• Prior experience at a vendor shipping SDKs into regulated customer environments such as banks, fintechs, or insurers, including security review, penetration testing, and SBOM processes.
• Familiarity with device attestation and anti-fraud signals, including App Attest, DeviceCheck, Play Integrity, and root/jailbreak or emulator detection.
• Experience wrapping native SDKs for cross-platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, or Cordova.
• Backend familiarity with Python, Java, and REST API design sufficient to help shape the service contracts consumed by the SDK.
• Experience with mobile observability and crash reporting at scale.
• Contributions to open-source mobile libraries, public technical writing, or developer advocacy.

Ideal Candidate

• Has shipped code that other developers depend on and demonstrates excellent SDK design principles with small, intuitive, and reliable interfaces.
• Equally comfortable working in Swift and Kotlin.
• Interested in understanding mobile networking behaviour at a deep level.
• Treats unclear integration documentation as a product quality issue and continuously improves developer experience.
• Balances platform expertise, technical rigor, reliability, security, and usability in every release.

Vacancy Status / Statut du poste

This is an active position currently open for hiring. / Ce poste est activement ouvert au recrutement.

Use of Artificial Intelligence / Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle

No artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the screening or selection process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.