iOS Engineer [REMOTE]

• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote (TimeZone: PST/CIST | Partial overlap) 
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $100-$120/h
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - long-term, ongoing project 

US-only / SF or NY-based / requires 3 days/week in the office

Experience within a continuously changing environment that influences the banking experience for clients and employees, including driving consistent frameworks and methodologies to support consistency is critical for this role. Attention to detail and an ability to convey relevant information at summary and detailed levels is a key factor to success in this role. Requires experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.

What you will do as an iOS Engineer:

• Create high quality mobile apps that are fast and stable.

• Work with product managers, architects, and other engineers to follow in translating requirements to solution options and recommendations.

• Oversee the backlog of requirements as it goes through the Design phase of the SDLC.

• Drive solution designs inclusive of clear annotations on key components and flows, considerations and options, recommendations, and justifications 

• Code and ship complex new mobile features and apps. 

• Work with owners and system leads, including Vendor Solutions, to logically design and negotiate solutions and participate in long-term product planning. 

• Ensure commitments are met while providing high-quality and cost-effective systems that meet client expectations. 

• Adapt digital Agile approach and work with mobile vendor to implement the mobile solution.  

• Keep up to date on new technology, standards, protocols, and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment.

• Work with the application support team and external vendors to ensure all applications are supported according to their Service Level Agreements.

• Troubleshoot and fix issues in production and non-production environments.

• Work with server engineers to design API specs.

• Propose and implement process improvements to make our engineering team even better

You will be a great fit if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of experience with strong app development skills and relevant practice in a technology environment

• Management skills related to Coaching Junior Developers

• Experience executing on enterprise-level projects 

• You are excellent in reading code to be able to analyze quickly

• Superior communication skills

• Advanced iOS Platform Skills - Strong knowledge of iOS frameworks, familiar with Apple's design principles and interface guidelines

• Experience with Swift

• Networking HTTP, SOAP and REST

• Testing Frameworks 

• OOP

• MVC/MVVM

• Solid Principles

• URL Session (Apple’s internal HTTP solution)

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• Backend web service and API knowledge

• Strong People leadership skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills