iOS Developer at hearX Group

Job Purpose:

• Develop and maintain our innovative hearing health platforms on the iOS platform, ensuring code is generated that is in accordance with specifications, and which is neat, accurate and scalable. Work will mainly focus on maintaining and upgrading our hearing aid solutions platform (Lexie Hearing), as well as providing guidance from an iOS best practice perspective for products in the rest of the company. Work might also include mentoring other iOS developers.

Minimum education (essential): 

• National Senior Certificate

Minimum education (desirable): 

• Tertiary education diploma/degree relevant to software development.
• 3 year degree in computer science or equivalent.

Minimum applicable experience (years):

• 3 - 5 years as an iOS Developer

Required nature of experience:

• Experience in implementing and delivering native iOS applications of 1 or more projects.

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

Programming Languages and Concepts

• Swift (Advanced)
• Concurrency - Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), Operation Queues, Tasks
• Memory Management
• iOS best practices

iOS Frameworks and SDK’s

• Animation - Core Animation/ SwiftUI animation
• Lottie
• Combine
• Core Data
• RxSwift
• Core Bluetooth/ RxBluetoothKit

Development Tools

• Command Line Tools
• Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment CI/ CD (Xcode Cloud, GitHub Actions)
• Profiling

Version Control

• Complex Git workflows (rebasing, cherry-picking, git-bisect)

App Architecture and Design Patterns

• Dependency Injection

Networking

• SSL

User Interface Design

• Custom Transitions and Animations
• Accessibility
• Localization and Internationalization

Data Persistence

• Core Data models and migrations (Intermediate)

Testing

• Unit testing - mocking, stubbing (Advanced)

Performance Testing

• App life cycle

Background Execution

Additional Skills

• Human Interface Guidelines
• App Review Guidelines