IOS Tech Principal
Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritized by a regional team close to them.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.
What you’ll bring to the table:
As a iOS Tech Principal, you’ll be a hands-on, mobile engineering specialist working across a Club’s portfolio of clients, onsite and in multi-skilled agile delivery teams. As a result, you will need to be able to:
1. Demonstrate mobile engineering expertise across iOS, Swift, rxSwift, Core Data, Core Animation, etc
2. Illustrate deep knowledge of modern agile software engineering; TDD/BDD, pair-programming, XP, CI/CD
3. Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, TestFlight, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform etc.
4. Have knowledge of cloud technology (XCode and AWS/GCP/Azure)
5. Have an appreciation for testing tools (Appium, Detox, XCTest))
6. Demonstrate credible experience working on large-scale, multiple industries, eCommerce and enterprise-level software development projects
7. Be hands-on with development teams; you’ll understand what good code looks like and see the bigger picture, taking architecture into consideration with a DevOps mindset.
8. Be able to review, understand and find ways forward with existing client solutions, visualising future potential and designs.
9. Have consulting experience or possess client facing skills
10. Be an active member of the AND Digital Interviewing team
Inspire Others
11. Remain hands on by championing and influencing the technical direction of projects
12. Provide guidance and strategic advice to clients; be able to observe the problems closely and propose solutions
13. Coach, mentor and upskill a team through implementing engineering best practices such as code reviews and pair programming.
14. Be hands-on with development teams; you’ll understand what good looks like and guide them to visualise the bigger picture
15. Give and receive regular feedback to help the developer community within your Club to develop and be more effective on client projects
Essential Skills
Strong experience in iOS development.
• Strong experience of developing production applications in Swift and Swift UI.
• Knowledge and understanding of modularisation, SPM and CocoaPods dependencies, and modern app architectures such as MVVM, MVP, and MVI.
• A solid understanding of HTTP and RESTful APIs, as well as an understanding of sockets.
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development, Junit, Cucumber, XCTest and XCUITestwith the ability to ensure a high level of both unit and integration testing coverage across codebases.
• Familiarity with Certificates, Provisioning Profiles, and regular deployments to the Apple App store and other app hosting services like App Center (formerly HockeyApp).
• Solid experience with Xcode.
• Familiarity with iOS frameworks including Dependency Injection, RxSwift, UIKit, and Combine.
• An aptitude for problem solving and an openness to learning new skills and technologies.
• Ability to work with Git, CI Systems and management tools such as JIRA.
This role will require the candidate to travel 1 day a week to London for the first 6 months (this can be expensed)
Equal Opportunities Statement
At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.