IOS Engineer (albelli App) - Barcelona
Photobox Group, Spain
Job Description
About us
albelli and Photobox Group have merged to create a leading player in the online European Photo Product and Gifting market. Together we now serve a pan-European customer base of over 7 million customers, supported by our 1,150 colleagues across the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Norway and Sweden. We are focussed on inspiring our customers to easily make beautiful photo products and bring their special moments to life.
Come join a team of experienced engineers where people are empowered to have an impact and we invest in quality.
What you’ll be responsible for as a Principal IOS Engineer
As a senior iOS developer you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining robust applications for customers who use Apple devices. You will be working in a team of engineers who value teamwork, software quality and testability, learning and growing, being able to focus on what matters and delivering results. You will be a part of a friendly and fun team, where everybody is eager to help each other and pair up on hard problems.
Our iOS app is being actively rewritten using native technologies. Currently our app has hybrid components: some of the UI is written in HTML and JS wrapped into a rich native shell, providing UX as close to native as possible.
The impact you’ll make:
- Developing iOS apps using Swift with MVVM and the latest and greatest technologies such as GraphQL, SwiftUI and Combine
- Create easy-to-read, well architected and well tested code.
- Work with multiple teams to set standards across the organisaiton.
- Develop and maintain our iOS apps as part of the mobile apps team.
- Regularly ship apps in an environment where teams are free to shape the direction.
- Work within a close-knit, cross-functional team, and share your skills in a team that supports and values sharing knowledge
You will be working in a relaxed, social environment with a team who are excited to embrace challenges, conventional or otherwise. The team love learning new things and sharing what they are doing, so if this describes you and you’re ready to try your hand at something different, get in touch!
Requirements
Minimum experience needed:
- Experience leading a team of iOS engineers
- iOS development
- Swift
- Objective-C (We are mostly moved over to Swift but there’s a little bit of Apple’s older language around.)
- Git and Github
- Demonstrate good cross-team collaboration skills - successful candidates will need to ensure technical alignment between mobile apps, web, and show an ability to think end-to-end
- Implantation of software engineering best practises and standards in to teams your managed
- Data driven - you understand the importance of data, metrics, measuring and improving
Even better if you have experience with:
- AWS - Serverless/Javascript
- Android development - Kotlin/Java
- Firebase
- Automating the build and release process
- TDD
- Scrum / Kanban experience
Benefits
- Budget for personal growth and development, including external training, courses, and conferences
- 23 days of annual leave with a healthy work-life balance
- A flexible hybrid work set up with a minimum of 2 days per month in the office and everything you need for a proper work from home setup
- An informal, fun, proactive, and inclusive culture with a social atmosphere (Friday drinks, parties, sports, etc.) to be resumed properly post COVID-19!
- A central location in one of Europe’s most vibrant cities, Barcelona!
- A fast-growing e-commerce environment
- An international company hosting over 50 nationalities
We are working in a hybrid environment and this role is based in our Barcelona office, situated in a WeWork by Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, a hub for technology and innovation. Within walking distance of public transport, the beach and shopping centres, the office has great facilities (coffee, tea, showers, bike parking, social events and more) with a modern working atmosphere.
There are approx. 15 people in the office, who work across all areas of the business, with a focus on analytics, marketing, and technology.
Equal opportunities statement
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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