Senior iOS Engineer

The role & the team:

You will join an extension team (The Times) of our client - News UK.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve.

News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

The Times: we develop and enhance The Times and The Sunday Times digital products, including our website and apps, working in partnership with internal and external digital platform teams.

What you'll do:

• You’ll specifically work on our front-end developing new features and optimising existing ones, to help deliver the news to our readers every day
• You’ll be a key component of a cross-functional team delivering quality software
• You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose
• You’ll report to a Principal Engineer and will help him deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation
• You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard

What we’re looking for:

You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to improve continually. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, inspiring those around you to do the same. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard. You understand the value of and are a practitioner of testing and DevOps. You are an expert in Swift and perhaps some other languages too. You are accomplished in building iOS apps using scalable mobile architectures and patterns and have experience with:

• Solid commercial experience using Swift, SwiftUI (required) and Objective-C (desirable)
• iOS design patterns, including MVVM+Coordinators
• Building UIKit views programmatically without using XIBs/Storyboards
• Using Autolayout to build adaptable layouts
• Experience profiling iOS applications for performance and memory issues
• SOLID design principles
• Dependency management with Cocoapods and Swift Package Manager
• Unit testing with XCTest/Swift Testing
• UI automation testing with XCUITest
• Continuous Integration - previous experience with CircleCI would be a bonus
• Build automation with Fastlane
• Some experience working with React Native would be an advantage
• Experience mentoring teams would be also be an advantage

More about Pwrteams:

Join our fast-growing and diverse team at Pwrteams, where we provide premium IT and engineering nearshore solutions to our global customers. Since 2007, we pursue to become the market leader in assembling cross-border IT and engineering teams for customers. Our operations are strategically positioned within Eastern Europe’s dynamic tech ecosystems, from where we cater the global business landscape. 

We're at the forefront of travel, media and fintech innovation, healthcare efficiency enhancements, and others. Our goal? To connect interesting customer projects and skilled talent alike. Become a part of our team and take the next step on your personal career journey.

How to apply:

If you recognize yourself in this role, please send your CV in English.

Our team would be excited to get in touch if your skillset and experience match the profile we look for.

Of course, all applications will be treated as strictly confidential.

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