iOS Developer Role- Chicago, IL or Houston, TX

Title: iOS Developer

Location: Hybrid role in Houston, TX or Chicago, IL.

Terms: Contract

Top 3 Must Haves:

1. Xcode
2. Swift and Swift UI
3. Objective-C

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Deliver across the entire app life cycle from concept, design, build, deploy, test, release, and support.
• Design, build and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Identify the correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Learn & adopt and brainstorm new features.
• Onsite-offshore coordination experience is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work independently.
• Team player driven to achieve both individual and team goals.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment is a plus.

Required Skills:

• Programming language, iOS Testing and Debugging.
• Experience in native enterprise iOS app design and development.
• Extensive experience in Swift, Objective-C, MVC and MVVM best practices.
• SwiftUI (Intermediate level knowledge required for development).
• Resource needs to be hands-on with overall iOS technologies (various frameworks) and needs to play a senior developer role in the team.
• Experience in client/server communication, session/token management, and a basic understanding of HTTP network protocol.
• Expertise in best practices for RESTful API design.
• Auto Layout, Storyboard, Navigation (like Push, Show, Pop).
• JSON/ XML parsing, Push Notification Experience.
• Experience in Core Data and Core Graphics and Animation.
• Should have experience working with various iOS SDK releases.
• Expertise in encrypting the data in iOS and some basic security concepts like SSO, and SSL pinning.
• Must be familiar with iOS development tools, especially the Instruments profiling tool.
• Code review best practices, debugging and app deployment/distribution knowledge.
• Experience in working with Git.
• Crash log management (monitoring, analysis) and device logging.
• Unit Testing (XCTest)

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience developing data visualization UI components such as Charts and Graphs is a plus.
• Offline data handling/management is a plus.
• Ideally, have experience building "universal" apps that run on both mobile phones and tablets.
• Proxy tool knowledge to debug HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic e.g. Charles.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.