Senior iOS Engineer (offline)

Position & client
Our client is a Canadian software company that builds a digital shopping marketplace for shoppers to get local savings and deals. The product is a flyers – digital circular platform that enables users to browse and compare weekly ads and deals from retailers across North America. With Flyers users can search for deals on specific products or browse through full flyers from their favorite stores. The platform offers a range of features, including the ability to clip and save deals, create shopping lists, and set deal alerts for specific products. Our client is an established, profitable company that has been in the business for over 10 years.

Our client’s mobile app is a big project with almost 10 years of development history. The app has a 4.7 rating in the App Store from 400k users. Currently the app's target version is iOS 14 and 70% of the code is written in Swift.

You’ll become one of the first developers of a new team that will be working on a new mobile app from scratch.

Stack of the project
- Swift, Objective-C
- Target version 14
- Firebase
- Crashlytics
- GitHub Actions

Responsibilities
- Participate in technical and product discussions
- Be accountable for delivering and supporting applications in a production environment
- Code review teammates’ work and identify areas for improvement
- Recommend improvements and ways to enhance the functioning of the software
- Write code, establish a coding culture and standards

Requirements
- ~​​5+ years of experience in iOS development
- Experience both with Swift and Objective-C
- Strong Intermediate English speaking level

Team setup & processes
- It’s going to be a new team within the product

Interview process
- HR interview (30 mins)
- Tech interview with a Senior Engineer (90 min)
- Interview with Tech PM (60 min)

Benefits
We are all for the self-development of each team member. As a part of our team, you’ll be supported in your professional growth, work on Macs, receive certifications, and visit conferences. On top of that, you will enjoy an attractive social package, including

- Сompetitive monthly compensation
- Flexible working schedule
- Working remotely
- 18 paid vacation working days
- Paid sick leaves (with 5 undocumented days per year)
- Health support with medical insurance or sports programs
- English lessons, sports activities, and charity events
- Full support of Private Entrepreneur reporting services (ФОП)

About Blackbird Lab

Blackbird Lab is a software development company. While we are practicing international working culture, we are proud representatives of Ukrainian values and traditions. We are a team of 80+ energetic, curious, smart, and open to new challenges tech pros who prefer efficient async communication, flexible working hours, a co-working office model, etc.

Being in this craft for about 5 years, we managed to accumulate expertise and bring value to a number of clients. We cooperate with US and Canadian product companies of different sizes, from small startups to established products, in close, trusted relationships.

All team members, including management, have an engineering background. The process, participants who speak the same language and have a similar approach based on technical principles, is always efficient. It is way easier to make decisions and introduce new features in a team with engineering at heart. It is the technical DNA that lets us build high-quality products that facilitate the lives of our customers’ users.

Address: Holosiivskyi Ave 132, Kyiv

Company website:
https://www.blackbird-lab.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/blackbird-lab/