Senior iOS Developer (Kenya 3rd Party)

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Job Title: Senior iOS Developer

Reports to: Practice Head: Mobile Services

ROLE OVERVIEW

The successful individual would be responsible for the development, debugging and support of new and existing mobile applications, related services and databases.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

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• Interaction design and user experience guidelines
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• iOS – Objective C and Swift
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• Design patterns
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• Parsing and consuming XML and JSON
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• Working with RESTful services
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• Unit testing, integration and functional testing
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• Using version control systems – Git, SVN, TFS
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• Solutions design and implementation
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• Improving the design of existing code
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• Keep up to date with technology
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• System design and analysis
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• Ability to conceptualise and simplify complex problems
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• Ability to read/write specifications
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• Awareness of environment

INIMUM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

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• 5+ years’ experience in mobile software development
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• Preferably in a banking, insurance or telecoms industry
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• Experience in SDLC methodologies such AGILE (SCRUM)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES

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• Strong written and oral communication skills
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• Creative eye for details
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• Positive attitude
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• Able to multitask effectively
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• Display excellent time management, task planning and prioritisation skills
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• Able to adapt quickly to changing client requirements
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• Able to work effectively with minimal supervision
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• Work under pressure
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• Enthusiastic and committed
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• Work in a team environment
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• Delivery focused
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Professional

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Motivated

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• Show initiative

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

CORE COMPETENCIES

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• Developing, maintaining and debugging of software applications
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• Testing of independent modules and complete applications making use of automated and manual testing techniques
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• Working with project managers, technical leads and customers to provide task estimates, report on progress and discuss implementation details
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• Following and contributing to the improvement of software architecture, coding standards and practices being observed within the team environment
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• Designing of solutions that are maintainable, efficient, performant and secure
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• Refactoring source code to improve system design
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• Resolving software defects in collaboration with software test analysts
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• Conducting peer reviews of project code
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• Consume and create technical documentation such as specification documents, UML diagrams, user stories, wireframes etc.
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• Using a version control system to manage code changes
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• Configure, optimise and deploy applications for public release
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• Managing the submission of applications to online repositories and app stores

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM EDUCATION

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• Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or other related qualification

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED

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• Tackle hard problems in iOS such as Graphics, Performance issues, Security, Bash scripting and build script issues
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• Able to approach problems with BDD and TDD
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• Being able to take on POC work in quick stints with vital feedback
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• Knowledge of App Store connect and releasing of applications
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• Being able to create Linting rules on top of the basic rules, Swift Lint
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• Good understanding of DevOps in iOS
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• Ability to modularise iOS applications with Cocoapods
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• Carthage knowledge
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• Knowledge of Swift package manager
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• KeyChain management
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• SSL pinning
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• Instruments for profiling iOS Apps
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• Scheme and build configuration management
• In this position you will report to Practice Head: Mobile Services