About the Role
The Senior iOS Engineer will work end-to-end on user-facing features within Deltatre's iOS engineering team, from requirements refinement through architecture, implementation, and release. The team builds applications for AXIS, Deltatre's user experience management platform, which powers native app experiences for clients such as BritBox, Sportsnet+, DYN, Bell Media, and beIN across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. The role involves shaping the iOS side of the platform, contributing to architectural decisions, and coordinating iOS engineers within the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Refine and estimate requirements; contribute to product and engineering planning
- Develop new user-facing features for iOS and Apple TV using Swift
- Build reusable components and libraries for future use across the platform
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality production code
- Optimise components for performance across iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs
- Define and contribute to the architecture of digital solutions
- Plan delivery effectively — robust, modular, testable code
- Coordinate the work of iOS engineers within the team
- Contribute to Deltatre engineering procedures, code conventions, and best practice
- Stay current with developments in iOS and UI engineering relevant to the platform; the team works to Scrum methodology
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Produces work that others can build on, takes ownership of features from refinement through release, treats the iOS platform as a craft, and makes architectural decisions that hold up over multiple release cycles with clear documentation
- 5+ years' relevant engineering experience, including at least 2 years at Senior iOS Engineer level
- Recent hands-on experience with SwiftUI (2+ years)
- Deep proficiency in Swift
- Thorough understanding of Apple system frameworks — Foundation, UIKit, AVFoundation, StoreKit, and others
- Demonstrated unit-testing practice with XCTest
- Familiarity with Apple app submission, code signing, and iTunes account administration
- Comfortable with instrumentation testing and optimisation
- Comfortable with Git, build automation, and continuous integration
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience working with a global team or employer
Preferred Skills
- Experience with libraries commonly used in the team — Alamofire, BrightFutures, emitter-kit, Kingfisher
- Familiarity with Facebook SDK, Fabric, Crashlytics
- Experience with In-App Purchase implementation
- Background in the sports domain
- Genuine interest in Apple TV development
Workplace
- Hybrid basis with at least 2 days per week working in the Mumbai office in Andheri
The Application Process
The application process consists of an introductory conversation, a take-home assessment, and two interview rounds. Adjustments and accommodations are available on request; the team will usually accommodate alternative formats.
- Introductory conversation: a step to get to know each other better and to answer questions about Deltatre
- Take-home assessment: a practical exercise completed in your own time, used as the basis for the technical conversation
- 1-hour Technical round of interview: deep dive on experience, the take-home assessment, and technical decisions from past work
- 1-hour Competency Based Interview: situational questions about dealing with real-life scenarios at work