Senior iOS Engineer

The Role

You will join an extension team (Sun Mobile) of our client - News UK.

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Unruly, a global ad tech company, and Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

The Sun Mobile ​​is part of a thriving engineering community in Technology who design, develop and operate all of News UK's customer-facing products and platforms. Our team creates and supports the digital platform for The Sun’s mobile application which delivers The Sun experience via iOS and Android to complement the web.

Our agile team is highly collaborative, working closely with our product and business partners to deliver value to our customers. We are cross-functional, autonomous engineers that are empowered to design, write, test, deploy and support their code.

What you'll do:

• As a Senior iOS Engineer, you’ll be an integral component of a team delivering quality software
• You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose
• You’ll report into a Principal Engineer and will help him/her deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation. You’ll interact, communicate and collaborate with the engineers based in London
• You’ll be involved with the technical direction as well as day to day coding standards and best practices
• You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business
• You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK

What we're looking for:

You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to improve continually

You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, inspiring those around you to do the same. You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard.

You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD/BDD and DevOps as part of development. You are an expert in iOS software development but are adept in other languages and frameworks.

• Native iOS application development with both modern and legacy systems
• Solid commercial iOS development using Swift
• Strong experience with SwiftUI for modern UI development
• Experience with RxSwift for reactive programming and asynchronous operations
• Experience maintaining and refactoring legacy UIKit-based systems
• Understanding of both modern architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI) and legacy patterns (MVP)
• Firm grasp of object-oriented software development and tiered design
• An ability to deliver solutions with iOS UI/UX principles in mind
• Quality-led approach to development (UI/Unit Testing)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices
• Experience with mobile development issues related to performance optimisation, caching, security and native components / SDKs
• Excellent communication skills contextually tailored to various levels of the organisation including external parties

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