Senior iOS Engineer

Chegg Busuu; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading EdTech company as a Senior iOS Engineer, developing and enhancing a globally recognized language learning app. You'll work with a talented team to create impactful applications, ensuring a rich learning experience for users worldwide, while enjoying competitive benefits in a flexible working environment.

Benefits

Free breakfast and snacks

2 free lunches per week

Private Health Insurance

Personal training budget

Flexible working hours

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Team social activities

Qualifications

• Professional iOS development experience with a history of shipping iOS apps.
• Experience in the entire app development lifecycle.
• Experience working with REST APIs and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve the iOS app for users across over 190 countries.
• Collaborate with UX team and participate in the full application lifecycle.
• Mentor junior developers and ensure best practices in app development.

Skills

Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Swift

REST APIs

Design Patterns

iOS UI principles

Objective-C

Job description

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Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.

Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.

Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

Why does a Senior iOS Engineer do at Busuu?

The iOS platform is the biggest mobile platform in the world by revenue and iOS at Busuu is growing faster than ever, leading the switch to mobile in greater and greater numbers. We are live in more than 190 countries across the world, and we want to keep adding to the features that we’re bringing to our millions of users. The reach and impact that our iOS app has across the world, to enrich users’ lives through easy access to language learning, means it is incredibly important to us to continue to build extraordinary iOS applications that are accessible to everyone.

As an iOS Engineer, you’ll be working on our flagship app, shipping to over 190 countries throughout the world in 12 languages, offering our users a huge variety of languages to learn from. You’ll think about how users interact with our learning experience, how to help them learn better and faster and then build an experience that everyone can enjoy learning with.

You’ll work on brand new and existing features, shipping often and supporting your application all the way to production and beyond. You’ll work with an amazing, experienced team of iOS engineers, and think about the entire life cycle of the application, from architecture to automated testing. We’re not afraid to do the right thing, refactoring when necessary while at the same time ensuring that we’re shipping new features to consumers as fast as possible.

What make a great Senior iOS Engineer at Busuu

Professional iOS development experience, with a history of shipping iOS apps

Previous involvement in entire app development lifecycle, from project creation through coding & QA to app store deployment

Experience in iOS UI principles. You will be working with a UX team, but your suggestions and design ideas will be appreciated and considered

Experience working with REST APIs

Experience with Design Patterns

Strong experience in Object Oriented Programing (OOP), Swift skills and design patterns

Experience with Objective-C

Willingness to mentor junior developers

Exposure to the architecture of high-traffic web platforms.

Experience leading projects from a technical standpoint.

At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:

Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks and fresh fruit

You get 2 free lunches per week at our office that you can choose out of a wide selection of restaurants in the area

Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme

There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers

We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working

We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on location)

Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such as team lunches, Thursday socials, quarterly team, and company events

What happens next

We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.

CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible

Let’s chat - Quick chat with our team about your experience and the role

Interview - With the Hiring Manager

Case Study - At home case study to show off your skills

Interview - Interview to review the task and speak with other colleagues in the team