iOS Developer - Full Time

Horizontal Talent; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is hiring an experienced iOS Developer to build products used by millions, focusing on code quality and craftsmanship. You will join small cross-functional teams dedicated to delivering a full-feature business communication tool with rapid iterations and a strong emphasis on performance and UX.

You will contribute to iOS features, API integration, and testing within a fast-moving engineering environment, working on a scale-out mobile platform used across globally distributed

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Swift and Objective-C.
• Experience with iOS frameworks: Core Data, Core Animation, UIKit.
• Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning.
• RESTful API integration for iOS apps.
• Knowledge of UI/UX standards and Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
• MVC and MVVM architectures; experience with Coordinator pattern.
• UI in code and Interface Builder.
• Instruments for performance and memory tuning.
• Push notification APIs experience.
• Unit testing and instrumentation testing.
• Git version control proficiency.
• App distribution process understanding.
• Full mobile development life cycle expertise.
• Agile development experience.
• Knowledge of mobile architectures and trends.
• Experience publishing iOS apps to the App Store.

Responsibilities

• Plan and build features for the iOS platform.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers on UI/UX.
• Fix bugs and optimize performance.
• Integrate internal and external APIs.
• Assist customers to ensure best-experience.
• Write implementation documentation.
• Communicate test status to teams.

Job description

About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.

Role Overview

Are you a programmer that loves to build products that are used by millions of people everyday? Do you possess sharp attention to detail and knowledge of what makes an IOS mobile app successful and easy to use? Do you have a desire for continuous learning, so that you can constantly improve the benefits of what you build for your users? If so, then become the next IOS developer here as we share those same desires. We are searching for someone who has a passion for code quality and craftsmanship. Someone who enjoys working in an environment where each individual works towards a common goal – to build a full feature business communication tool and provide free access for everyone to use it! The world’s #1 business messaging application is expanding its engineering team and is seeking an experienced IOS Developer, to help shape the future of business communications. Every day we get to build an array of awesome systems at scale, including search, concurrency, content organization, real-time metrics, deployment, and event-driven, low-latency, concurrent apps. We focus on fast, iterative development (over 200+ deployments just last month), and collaborative, interactive programming. Developers work within small cross-functional teams of 3-6 crew that rely on one another to champion their project goals and in setting their own priorities are expected to build and deploy applications quickly and iteratively.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and build product features on the iOS platform
• Work with the product manager and designer to achieve UI/UX inline with iOS
• Fix bugs and performance issues
• Communicate with internal APIs and external APIs
• Help customers with issues they are having to ensure they have the best experience possible
• Write documentation for implementation
• Communicate the status of test development to the appropriate channels

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Swift, Objective-C
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation and APIs like Foundation, UIKit, and CocoaTouch
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Understanding of MVC and MVVM, preferable knowledge of Coordinator pattern
• Ability to craft UI in code and with Interface builder
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with Instruments
• Familiarity with push notification APIs
• Experience writing instrumental and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning with Git
• Understanding of app distribution process
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience in developing and supporting rapid iterations of software in an Agile context
• Overall knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Preferably having published one or more iOS app(s) in the Apple App Store

What We Offer

We are able to offer a competitive salary, depending on your experience and demonstrated capabilities.

Why work here?

We are a highly motivated, friendly, and globally distributed team. Our company has grown but we're still a small team, so everyone that delivers in their area can have and make a big impact, and there are career growth opportunities for our highest achievers.