iOS Engineer

Job DescriptioniOS Engineer About the Program: Our client''s ''Next Chapter'' Returnship Program is a 16-week paid returnship for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after taking time off for caregiving. The program is open to individuals who have at least 2 years of professional experience and have been out of the paid workforce for at least 1 year to focus on caring for a child or other dependent and are not currently in a university program. We are excited to launch the Next Chapter program because we appreciate the skills you can offer, the perspective you provide, and the contributions you will make. This program offers you a chance to revamp your skills, update your resume with new experience, and make connections with other women and men transitioning back to the workforce. It also offers support through Path Forward, a nonprofit organization on a mission to empower people who''ve been focused on caregiving transition back to the paid workforce. About this Role: As an iOS Engineer, it''s up to you to define, design, and refine the tech that keeps us one step ahead of listeners. Anticipate. Innovate. Bring challenging ideas and we''ll support you with the latest tech, tools, and systems that you need to succeed. You''ll be essential in ensuring the team can reach their potential; working closely with them, reviewing their work, mentoring, and supporting them to develop. Together, iOS Engineers will build and maintain our platform to bring thousands of stories to millions of listeners and unleash the power of the human voice. About the Team: The iOS Core group owns the core experience for the iOS App. Customers spend most of their time on their apps. It''s our responsibility to push into new places for their iOS listening. Achieving this vision means building a cohesive user experience on the iOS app, maintaining operational excellence, and reducing the customer friction that gets between our users and their content. The team is building a customer-facing UI for the iOS application. We need your help to develop and deliver on this vision. Success means we Client the foundation for continued expansion of our company without disrupting an already tremendously successful and much-loved project. Feature development is a highly collaborative exercise, and you will be working directly with PMs and UX designers to help define the work that will drive customer value in the app. About You: A great communicator who can distill important information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping them make informed decisions confidently. A team player who brings energy and passion to all efforts and inspires others to do the same. Passionate about bringing your skills while being open and eager to learn new things. A detail-oriented problem-solver who enjoys the process of scratching beneath the surface to find the best solution to challenges. Curious and unafraid to ask questions to gain a deeper understanding. As a Software Development Engineer, you will... Be part of the iOS team. Our core goal is to make the iOS apps easier to use for our customers and more easily maintained by our engineers. Own key components within our platform, with the support of the team. ''Owning '' means envisioning, designing, creating, building, testing, and supporting. Contribute to the development of the technical direction and strategy within the team and help influence technology across the client and beyond. Partner with product management to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that invigorates our community and inspires our peers. Evangelize our content and application, work closely with business development, and through events like external hackathons and internal brown bag sessions. Take advantage of the resources, training, and experts around you to stay up to date with tools, trends, technologies, and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon, and then share that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community. Solve problems that are not clearly defined and have a large degree of ambiguity while translating our organizational vision into functional plans that guide their execution. Support our developers. ''Support '' means being the go-to person for questions but never a bottleneck. See around the corner and anticipate developers'' needs. Basic Qualifications: Programming experience with at least one iOS language such as Swift or Objective-C including object-oriented design. 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems. 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience. BA/BS degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience. Background in any customer-facing software development (internal or external). Preferred Qualifications: Prior success as a software engineer, subject matter expert, and strategic influencer on the direction of the product design and development. Working knowledge of software development best practices: dependency injection, design patterns, unit/integration testing. Experience building enterprise-scale mobile applications. Experience with iOS application development. Competency in automation, enthusiasm for continuous integration/deployment. tech - provided by Dice

Created: 2024-10-19