Mobile iOS Engineer

NPR; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

NPR is seeking a Mobile Engineer to join their Audience Technology team. The role involves developing high-quality mobile apps and leading features through the entire SDLC. Candidates should have extensive experience in iOS development using Swift and SwiftUI, and the ability to collaborate effectively in Agile teams.

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off

Financial well-being support

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of mobile development experience.
• Experience with Swift and SwiftUI.
• Ability to analyze needs from stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with iOS Engineers to develop new features.
• Maintain the existing codebase and optimize performance.
• Participate in all aspects of SDLC.

Skills

iOS Development

Swift

SwiftUI

Agile Methodologies

CI/CD tools

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Tools

XCTest

Job description

A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.

Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR.This means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.

INTRO TO POSITION

NPR Audience Technology is committed to delivering high quality listening, reading and viewing experiences across all platforms. As a mobile engineer, you will work on high-performing Scrum teams on iOS feature development in a collaborative environment. You will be involved in all aspects of the SDLC for existing and new NPR apps, from planning to development to release and maintenance.

This is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement withNABET-CWA DMU.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate with other iOS Engineers to develop new product features, working closely with designers, product managers, our Editorial team and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to system architecture, processes, and other business requirements.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on requirements or business needs throughout core business hours.
• Break down statements of work into achievable goals and tickets for a given sprint.
• Effective communicator, able to articulate robust solution designs, as well as technology constraints, to audiences internal and external to the department.
• Maintain the existing codebase, optimizing performance, adding unit tests, refactoring existing code as needed using a test-driven development mindset.
• Contribute to all aspects of our SDLC, from planning to development to code reviews to release, maintenance, and after hours support.
• Participate in initiatives for system and/or process improvements. Evaluates and recommends new technology solutions.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of three years of mobile development experience in a professional environment
• Experience leading or collaborating on iOS feature development through deployment to production
• Experience documenting architecture and system designs
• Experience with Swift and SwiftUI
• Creativity, initiative, thirst for innovation & learning
• Ability to analyze needs from both internal and external stakeholders & offer technical solutions based on those needs.
• Vigor for crafting well-tested, well-documented & elegantly structured code
• Thrives in a collaborative / cooperative environment.
• Empathy for users and passion for crafting great user experiences
• Good oral and written communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A passion for NPR’s content and/or familiarity with our digital products

WORK LOCATION

• Remote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Experience working on a professional development team in an Agile environment
• Experience managing a production iOS application with App Store Connect and other performance monitoring services
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCi, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Experience with rapid prototyping
• Experience managing, updating, and replacing legacy code
• Expertise in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and Swift Concurrency, Objective-C
• Reactive frameworks such as Combine & RxSwift
• Proficiency in object-oriented & protocol-oriented programming skills
• Experience in understanding of design patterns & software architecture (specifically concepts such as dependency injection, MVVM)
• Unit Testing frameworks (preferably XCTest)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with Git (bonus if you can use it via the command line.)

BONUS SKILLS

• Experience in AVFoundation, Core Data, SQLite, CarPlay, Widgets
• Programming experience or interest in Kotlin, Android, Chromecast, or Alexa

JOB TYPE

• This is a full time, exempt position.

COMPENSATION

Salary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $124,508.51 - $135,393.36 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.

Benefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees.

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The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.

NPR Pay Range

$124,508.51 - $135,393.36 USD

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