Software Development Engineer

Adobe; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the City of Westminster is seeking an experienced Staff Mobile Engineer to join their Swift squad. In this role, you will build and iterate on their flagship iOS app, mentor a growing team, and ensure performance and reliability. The ideal candidate has strong iOS development expertise, a dedication to mentorship, and experience in cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience building iOS apps with a focus on performance, reliability, and accessibility.
• Proven mentorship experience and ability to accelerate growth of senior engineers.
• Comfort working across cross-functional teams to align on roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Build the flagship iOS app creating fluid interfaces with large datasets.
• Define and refine architecture, technologies, and development practices.
• Mentor a growing team of engineers on sustainable practices.

Skills

iOS development

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical communication

Performance optimization

Tools

Swift

SwiftUI

Combine

GraphQL

Job description

Overview

We're looking for an experienced Staff mobile engineer to join our Swift squad - a team of dedicated engineers working on the next version of our Apple Design Award winning iOS app, tvOS app, and macOS app. We enjoy a strong relationship with Apple, allowing us to push the boundaries of what we can build across our platforms, and our team members are constantly challenging and evolving how we build. We've designed our tech stack to provide the best possible developer experience so you can focus on solving the right challenges; we obsess over performance, reliability, privacy, and security. Our team strives to quickly adopt Apple's latest tech including Swift 6 and SwiftUI. Success in this role is shipping, maintaining and iterating on best-in-class iOS, tvOS, macOS apps that enable our customers to do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Build our flagship iOS app and lead by creating fluid interfaces that remain smooth and responsive with large datasets
• Define and refine architecture, technologies and development practices that will be used across the product
• Mentor a growing team of engineers on sustainable engineering practices balancing beauty, scale, and performance
• Receive and offer technical feedback through pair programming and code reviews
• Promote engineering excellence with a focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with design, product and leadership to understand what our needs will be in the years to come, and align our technology roadmap to support that vision
• Partner with web and backend teams to design effective cross-platform API contracts and dataflows
• Experience building pixel-perfect, robust, and accessible user interfaces on iOS
• Track record of providing mentorship and helping senior engineers accelerate their growth
• Experience balancing local and remote data representations to enable sophisticated real-time interface interactions with animation, orchestration and responsiveness
• Swift fluency and experience with Combine, Concurrency, and GraphQL
• Experience designing and developing features that fully take advantage of the device and OS features that are unique to native mobile apps, e.g. Live Activities, App Intents, CoreImage or similar
• A dedication to learning and sharing ideas with your fellow engineers
• Mastery of breaking down, discussing, and communicating abstract technical concepts

Qualifications

• Experience building iOS apps with a focus on performance, reliability, and accessibility
• Proven mentorship experience and ability to accelerate growth of senior engineers
• Comfort working across cross-functional teams (design, product, leadership) to align on roadmap
• Strong communication skills and ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly