iOS Developer

Ventula Consulting; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventula Consulting in Manchester is seeking an experienced iOS Engineer for an initial six-month contract to develop and improve native iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.

You will work across the full development lifecycle, collaborate with backend teams, product managers, designers and QA, and contribute to robust, testable code with API integrations.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Strong Swift and SwiftUI skills.
• Understanding of UIKit interoperability.
• Experience with MVVM architecture.
• Familiar with REST/GraphQL API integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain native iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
• Deliver production-ready features from design to release.
• Work with backend-driven UI solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Debug production issues and improve app stability and performance.
• Write unit tests and participate in code reviews.
• Monitor app quality with crash reporting and observability tools.
• Break down complex requirements into development tasks.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

MVVM

API integration

CI/CD

Tools

Xcode

Git

GraphQL

REST

Job description

Duration: 6 months

A leading global technology platform is looking for an experienced iOS Engineer to join an established engineering team on an initial six-month contract.

You will develop and improve native iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit, working across the full development lifecycle from technical design through to release.

The role also involves working with backend-driven UI solutions and collaborating closely with backend engineers, product managers, designers and QA.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain native iOS features using Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
• Deliver production-ready features from technical design through to release.
• Work with backend-driven UI solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable and testable code.
• Integrate with REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Debug production issues and improve application stability and performance.
• Write unit tests and contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices.
• Monitor application quality using crash-reporting and observability tools.
• Break down complex requirements into manageable development tasks.

Key requirements:

• At least three years of professional iOS development experience.
• Strong commercial experience with Swift and SwiftUI.
• Good understanding of UIKit interoperability.
• Experience with modern iOS architecture such as MVVM.
• Strong knowledge of Xcode and Apple development tooling.
• Experience integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience debugging production applications and writing unit tests.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to quickly understand and contribute to a large existing codebase.
• Comfortable working independently within a fast-paced Agile environment.

Experience with GraphQL, A/B testing, observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog or Firebase, and large-scale consumer applications would be beneficial.