
Senior iOS Software Engineer
Remuneration: Competitive
Location: London/Newcastle
Role Type: Permanent

Key Work Benefits
We take the health and happiness of our employees seriously and we’re consistently searching for new ways to make mkodo the best place to work. From retirement planning to a wellness offering supporting mental & physical wellbeing.
Remote/Flexible working
Generous Holidays
Tech Scheme
Employee Assist Program
Bonus and Profit Share
Birthday Off
Team Socials
Pension Contribution
The Role - Senior iOS Software Engineer
If this is the opportunity you have been waiting for, to work in a fast-paced company with cutting-edge technology, please send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Apply HereKey Skills and Attributes
- Extensive experience in iOS development
- Proficiency with iOS tech stack including Swift.
- Experience working with RESTful APIs.
- Experience with multi-threaded programming.
- Experience building adaptive UIs for Mobile Devices.
- Familiar with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and App Store Review Guidelines.
- Self-motivated, strong individual contributor.
- Experience coaching and mentoring team members.
- Experience contributing to standards and best practices and embedding them on a team.
- Prioritises tasks using knowledge of the business, clients, and end users.
- Identifies risks in code, features, and design, and communicates these to the appropriate parties.
- Can perform a Technical Lead role where needed on small to medium projects.
- Clear communication skills via a multitude of mediums to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Can lead and influence technical team members with positivity, passion, and enthusiasm for technology.
- Deep understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, for example
- Object Oriented Programming, SOLID principles, TDD, YAGNI, KISS, etc.
- An awareness of industry best practice.
- Can manage and lead small projects or groups of stories.
- Active learner, both within your technical and professional area of expertise, & taking control of your own career development.
- Confident influencer with a good coaching, mentoring, appreciation, and feedback ethos who can make a significant contribution in a high performing team and internal community.
- Resilient, calm, and methodical in high pressure situations and able to multi-task, prioritise and make decisions.
- Excellent first-hand knowledge of software development techniques and methodologies throughout the SDLC.
- Understanding & supporting Engineering strategies and improving existing Engineering processes to enhance product & app performance and capabilities.
- Demonstrable first-hand experience as Senior Software Engineer or similar role
- Experience with agile management tools such as Redmine and Jira etc.
- Comfortable with SCM tools, such as SVN or Git.
- Experience in client facing situations.
About the Role
Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering, the Senior iOS Software Engineer role is a major contributor and influencer on an Engineering team delivering award winning apps and services. Seen as a rock-solid engineer who is a master of their domain, they get a lot done and require very little support beyond high-level direction. They can take a complex user story, break it down into sub-tasks, and complete their sub-tasks with relative ease.
The Senior iOS Software Engineer is known outside of their core team as a technology leader. Showing initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; they can identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves or their teams. They have responsibility for technical projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development.
The Senior iOS Software Engineer strives to create solutions that satisfy the trade-offs between technical, analytical and product goals. They can own technical design for projects of moderate complexity and understands the trade-offs in creating good software in their area. Beyond the day-to-day, the Senior iOS Software Engineer has an impact beyond themselves and their immediate projects. They help their team of engineers to deliver complex projects and are known for drama-free releases.
This is an important role for the company to ensure that we provide outstanding products to the thousands of customers who use our Apps.
Main Responsibilities
- Building our own Swift frameworks for reusable code across our apps.
- Maintaining our CI setup with Jenkins and Fastlane validating commits with a cluster of macOS hosts.
- Continuous Delivery with Fastlane, merging to a release branch automatically triggers the process to ship our builds to store.
- Developing using SwiftUI, Widgets, App clips, Xcode, and Clean Architecture.
- Delivering features, balancing leadership with individual contribution.
- Responsible for completing complex tasks despite roadblocks, grabbing others for help or insight as necessary.
- Contributes to making others better via Code Reviews, Pair Programming, Coaching, Mentoring and Training.
- A go-to expert in some significant areas of the code base, and not just because they are the only person who has ever worked in that code base.
- Writing consistently high-quality code they are confident will pass QA.
- Breaking down projects into technical milestones to avoid large monolithic deliverables.
- Delivering software on-time and improving the accuracy of their team’s estimations.
- Creating solutions to technical problems, getting buy-in for their solutions and making these solutions come to life.
- Providing technical advice and making decisions that affect the wider team.
- Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem and encourage and enable their team to do the same.
- Understanding a depth of knowledge in systems that enables them to debug those systems effectively without flailing.
- Research and propose new technologies.
- A key contributor and influencer on their team in embedding auditable regulatory compliance measures, such as ISO27001 and PCI Compliance.
- Have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as very detailed understanding of their area.
- Frequently presents at Brown Bag Lunches and Team Meetings.
- Assisting in interviews and recruitment.
- Support mkodo in the implementation and ongoing maintenance of its ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS).
- Adhere to all relevant mkodo ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) policies, procedures and requirements at all times.
- Complete any reasonable tasks relating to the mkodo ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS).
More benefits
mkodo is a great place to work, with excellent benefits comprising:
- Hybrid/Flexible Working
- Quarterly team events
- Birthday Holiday
- Christmas Day-Off
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Tech Loan Scheme
- Performance bonus & profit share scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life insurance and income protection
- Travel Loan scheme
- Supplies of fresh fruits, cereals, biscuits, nibbles, etc. in the offices
- Relevant training and training budget.
- Digital Nomad Policy
- Generous refer a friend scheme
Graduate development journey
Day 1
Grads onboarded as a cohort and focus on specific roles
First 2 weeks
Onboarding sessions and initial training
2 weeks
Grad team project with mentoring support
3 months
Grads present project to execs/senior leadership team. Start more compex project.
6 months
Present second project to the execs/senior leadership team. Grads join a client project team. Tech debt and support issues.
9 months
Start contributing to client deliverables.
12 months
Graduate from Grad scheme and become billable resource.
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Recruitment Process
For our web, Android and iOS engineering roles, we follow the below process:
For our roles, we follow the below process:
For our graduate roles, we follow the below process:
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Technical Exercise
You will be invited to a partake in a Pair Programming session with two of our Engineers, to assess your level of technical and coding abilities
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Skills Assessment
You will be invited to a second stage in the process to meet with more members of the team, and to show off your skills in your area of expertise. There will be the opportunity to ask any questions, and find out more about the role, and also to discuss your experience in more detail.
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
1-hour interview
You're invited to a second interview with developers you'll work with. It's a no-code whiteboard session to evaluate your problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills. Show us how you tackle challenges!
Offer
We’ll make offers to the successful graduates to join the cohort in early September
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Graduate Developer Scheme
mkodo operates its own 4-time, award-nominated graduate developer scheme across London and the Northeast. Check out our grad scheme page to learn more.
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