IOS Developer

Wekancode Technologies; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Wekancode Technologies seeks a Sr. Lead iOS Engineer in Chennai, India. You will lead a team, oversee the development of iOS applications, and provide technical guidance while being hands-on with coding. Ideal candidates have 5-7 years of experience and have published iOS apps to the App Store.

The role demands strong experience with Objective-C and Swift, along with managing critical project elements. A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience is required.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of development experience with hands-on experience as a Lead Developer.
• Experience developing and deploying multiple iOS Apps to App Store.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers and provide technical direction.
• Hands-on coding, system analysis, and delivery of assigned projects.
• Keep management informed of project progress and issues.

Skills

iOS Application Development

Agile Methodologies

Objective-C

Swift

API Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Xcode

Git

Job description

Job Description

As a Sr. Lead iOS Engineer you will be leading a team of developers, designing, developing and maintaining code/modules. You will be working in an Agile environment, delivering code, providing technical direction, and leading technical projects apart from being hands‑on too. In this senior level capacity, the candidate is expected to be able to act autonomously for day‑to‑day activities.

Must Have

5-7 years of development experience and must be hands‑on as a Lead Developer.

Must have developed and deployed multiple iOS Apps to App store and must be able to provide references of currently Live applications.

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on coding, system analysis, design and delivery of projects assigned.
• Complete assigned projects in a timely manner within project parameters.
• Provide good technical guidance to project team members and other colleagues within the organization so that their abilities and the overall project quality are enhanced.
• Keep management informed of project progress and problems, particularly as to needed changes in schedule, resources, or product.
• Maintain appropriate expertise to ensure effective service level.
• Respond to problems in a timely, effective manner.
• Secure approvals on specifications and project completion as appropriate.

Required Technical Qualifications

• Strong experience in building and publishing commercial iPhone and/or iPad applications.
• Experience integrating native iOS apps with payment gateways such as PayPal, Stripe, etc.
• Ability to match complex UI designs and animations.
• Extensive experience developing in Objective‑C and Swift.
• Programmer Tools: Xcode, Instruments, and Git.
• Frameworks: CocoaTouch, UIKit, and Core Data (Core Graphics and Core Animation a plus).
• Ability to develop APIs is a big plus.
• Solid grasp of algorithms, memory management, object oriented programming, MVC programming, and concurrent programming.
• Extensive experience detecting and correcting memory usage issues as well as optimizing code for application performance.
• Solid understanding of operating system fundamentals such as processes, inter-process communication, multi-threading primitives, race conditions and deadlocks.
• Excited about working in a high‑profile, fast‑paced software organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required. Will also consider one year of relevant work experience in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 4 years of experience with Information Technology.