iOS Developer (Senior)

Discovery – Group Information Services - Digital Channels

Working in a high performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

The Digital Channels team works on dynamic new projects and product enhancements within the web and mobile platforms in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, Application Platform Services helps the business to address changes through technologies.

This team is responsible for the Discovery member application published to the Play Store. They work with other Discovery business units to deliver innovative solutions to all members.

Within the Digital system area, the iOS developer will work on the Discovery application together with Product Owners from various business units, Business Analysts, UX/UI designers & Content Teams, System Architect, and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source code.

iOS developers support the projects throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release, and post release support.

iOS developers in the Digital area must be able to technically support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.

• Minimum
• Informatics degree or Diploma
• 4+ years’ experience developing iOS applications
• Advantageous
• 2+ years’ user interface analyst experience
• Software Engineering related degree/qualification
• Honours degree
• Business experience and product knowledge
• Experience in Objective-C is beneficial
• Methodologies
• Waterfall and Agile
• Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
• Tools
• SoapUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
• XCode
• Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)
• Technologies
• iOS
• UML
• XML, JSON
• SOAP and REST Web Service Development
• Other
• Software architecture
• JAD sessions
• Data modelling techniques

Senior iOS developers must have a competent understanding of:

The system development life cycle and can explain the developer’s role in each stage

The defined system development tools, processes and workflows

The distinction between business, functional and non-functional requirements and how to implement them

The importance of delivering high quality source code and how to achieve it

The technologies used and the systems components structure

The domain and business terminologies and link them back to system implementations

Senior iOS developers should be able to demonstrate that they can:

Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality

Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure a successful, high-quality product and great user experience

Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency.

Perform accurate development estimation

Produce technical specifications and designs. Participate in new business development through ideation, prototype development, and project estimates

Research new techniques, tools, and best practices and share that knowledge with the team and community

Maintain high standards

Analytical and problem solving skills

Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Can help with quality assurance and provide comments Within 6 months of being in the position, a senior iOS developer should be able to demonstrate strong domain knowledge and technologies in relation to the environment that they work in.

Maintain and extend existing development activities

Work with customers to determine project requirements

Design software to fulfil customer requirements

Develop software from requirements and specifications

Find and repair software defects; unit testing, UI automation testing

Stay current with Apple and iOS standards and guidelines

Documenting development work done