iOS Developer

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering – Applications - part of Scotia digital Engineering – supporting digital banking applications

Project: Need an iOS developer to help out with feature development work on wealth team – Wealth Apps / Starburst / Atlantis Projects – working on trading platforms – Starburst project: current iTrade platform for stock and ETF trading, working on trading applications, equities, ETFs

Candidate Value Proposition:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with latest technologies and learn about security strategies for finance applications, working in a flexible team setting within an agile framework, for an award-winning Digital team for one of the top 5 Canadian Banks.

Typical Day in Role:

• Adheres to and demonstrates coding conventions and good practices and helps to maintain the architecture of the project.

• Stays on top of reviewing others’ code, actively contributing suggestions and catching potential issues.

• Demonstrates an exceptional understanding of programming language(s) and tools.

• Demonstrates experience with and understanding of all layers of app code: UI, business logic, models, networking.

• Deep knowledge of iOS design best practices and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (accessibility)

Willing and able to provide designers with constructive feedback.

• Good understanding of layers below the app: API, services, and backend systems.

• Very involved in feature refinement to flag requirements and ask questions.

• Takes initiative to help identify and resolve production (and other critical) issues.

• Always works to balance user experience, performance (client and backend), and security.

• Going through requirements, implementing features and during feature implementation, integrating with APIs

• Write unit test cases in XCTest

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of experience as a mobile iOS developer working on large scale projects

2) 2+ years of working experience with SwiftUI

3) 3+ years’ experience with Version Control Software (Github and/or Bitbucket – please list which)

4) 2+ years of experience in integrating APIs with mobile apps

5) 2+ years’ experience with and understanding of all layers of app code: UI, business logic, models, networking

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) 2+ years’ experience using JIRA

2) 2+ years’ experience with Figma

3) Familiarity with design patterns, specifically MVVM

4) Familiarity with unit testing and snapshot testing

Soft Skills Required:

• Clear, articulate written and oral communicator.

• Communicates and collaborates well across all team channels (email, Slack, meetings), including cross-platform collaboration with other teams.

• Delivers high-quality work in a timely fashion, almost always meeting deadlines.

• Able to take the lead on complex tasks with minimal guidance. Sees the work through and is accountable from the planning stages to full completion.

• Judicious in asking for guidance — doesn’t for every detail, but always validates larger decisions with the team, tech lead, and/or architect.

• Self-motivated; shows initiative in taking on tasks and making suggestions.

Education:

Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering degree or equivalent.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Has all required and nice to have experience on recent fintech projects; ideal candidate would have higher years of experience.

Candidate Review & Selection

1st round – send assignment/coding assessment ahead of time to selected candidates – provide 3 full days to complete

2nd round - technical interview – 1 hour – MS Teams Video interview; with Dev team members

Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP

Job 70758