Lead Mobile Engineer - Get Staffed Online Recruitment Limited : Job Details

Lead Mobile Engineer

About Our Client

Our client’s goal is simple: to make vehicle movement easy. They are on their way to creating the leading end-to-end movement solution in the UK for their customers (such as Hertz and The AA), delivered by their network of 600+ drivers and transport agents across the UK.

Since going live in April 2018, they have acquired over 80 clients, many of whom can claim to be amongst the largest players in the UK automotive industry. They are already one of the largest competitors in their space but have ambitions to grow much further and they are crazy about sustainability. To date they have saved fleets over 9,000,000 tonnes of CO2.

They are seeing their hard work paying off as they have won seven awards, including Best Fleet Software three years in a row, a highly commended well-being award, two innovation awards, and one outstanding product of the year award.

About the Position

Development and management of our client’s productions systems moved in-house a little under four years ago, since then they have been building out a seriously talented team to grow their platform. Our client’s core application is hosted in AWS on Linux containers, developed in C# .NET Core with a SPA Angular front-end along with an accompanying native mobile app on iOS & Android. They also have some data processing services and machine learning workloads.

You will be a core member of the IT team delivering our client’s 24/7 production system. Having been involved in production systems with multiple years of experience, you will have architected and built new applications and features, provided ongoing improvements and fixes. You’ll be the type of Engineer who is very comfortable diving deep into code. With this knowledge you’ll be able to quickly get up to speed with their application domain and start making an impact.

For the mobile development, they are looking for experience of Kotlin and Swift, and for someone who has experience developing native mobile apps and APIs.

Your primary focus is shared between the ongoing improvement and support of their mobile app and improvement and support of their web app where necessary. You will be working alongside the Developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality solutions is essential.

As they are in their 'growth phase’ you will be joining this expanding IT team. They are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, enjoys the vibrant nature of a start-up like environment, is focused on helping them to build their platform, adaptable to change, and keen to help in their overall vision.

What You'll Do:

• Translate designs, wireframes and user stories into high quality solutions.
• Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and web.
• Participate in the full development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance.
• Research and track advancements in mobile/web application design patterns.
• Break any design problem down into viable actionable units of work and solve them with clarity and precision.
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the mobile/web design field.
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Cooperating with the back-end developers in the process of building the RESTful API.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
• Help maintain build server Xcode and packages.

What They’re Looking For:

• Hands-on experience with core iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Combine, Core Data, and Core Animation.
• Ability to optimise and enhance the performance of iOS applications.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining iOS applications.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality designs to meet customer requirements.
• Deep knowledge of SPA best practices, architecture and modularisation based on extensive work experience.
• Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning.
• Experience of geo-location, tracking, and mapping is beneficial.
• Deep understanding of Apple’s HID guidelines, and Google’s Material design.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and Push Notifications.
• Knack for Benchmarking and Optimisation.
• Proficient understanding of version control software such as Git.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.
• Multiple years development and delivery of mobile applications in a commercial environment on iOS/Android platforms with a portfolio of mobile applications that demonstrate your ability to build and support mobile applications that integrate into corporate business critical systems.
• Significant portfolio of applications built with a SPA framework either wholly by yourself or as part of a team where significant portions of the application were built by you.

Technical Experience:

• iOS Development using Swift
• Combine Framework
• UIKit
• Git

Experience of the following would be beneficial:

• Kotlin
• C# .NET Core
• Angular or another SPA framework
• UX / UI Design
• Amazon Web Services
• Gitlab CI or another CI/CD platform
• RESTful API design
• SQLite and MySQL
• Mobile Automation Testing (e.g. Appium, Espresso)

What’s In It For You

Grow with them

You will be part of a growing and ambitious company! They want you to be happy and enjoy coming to work where you are surrounded by a supportive team.

In the heart of Birmingham

They are based in Birmingham city centre at Somerset House, only a 5-minute walk from Grand Central train station. In summe