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Job Description
We’re looking for a Principal iOS Engineer to join our growing software engineering team, leading development and strategy for our patient-facing iOS applications. As the ideal candidate, you have a vision for the future of our mobile platform and will adapt that vision to meet the emerging needs of our app teams while keeping up with evolving technologies in the mobile space. You will be energized to transform and think critically on product development with a focus on design and architectural best practices including the creation of components built for reuse, testing, offline behavior, performance, and new technology adoption.
Your team’s primary focus is building delightful and meaningful applications that engage with our patients and ultimately help improve their lives. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products are essential.
The team also contributes to the development of SDKs and integration with backend services (RESTful APIs) as well as connected medical devices over Bluetooth. You will also work closely with the UX Designers to implement a specified UI design and find creative solutions to deliver the vision of the product teams.
Lastly, as a technologist, you curiously explore new technologies, courageously experiment to validate new business models and build quality products and platforms in a cost-effective, secure, and compliant manner.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform with evolving complexity
- Own and deliver software architecture, diagrams, design documents
- Primary engineering lead, directing a team of iOS developers in the delivery of products, both in an R&D and Commercial setting.
- Collaborate with a diverse team to define, design, and ship new features
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Work cross-functionally with outside data sources and APIs
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Establish long term and evolving bug fixing solutions, improving application performance
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
Qualifications
- 4-year degree preferred relevant experience will be considered
- 7 – 10+ Years of iOS development experience
- 5+ Years of leading engineering or R&D teams focused on iOS-based applications
- Expert knowledge of the iOS platform and experience developing large scale consumer-facing applications
- Expert-level experience with Swift, with experience in other languages
- Expert-level experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
- Expert-level experience with offline storage, keychain, threading, and performance tuning
- Experience with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
- Experience interfacing with Bluetooth connected devices
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
- Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
- Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
- Experience with performance and memory tuning
- Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
- A knack for benchmarking and optimization
- Proficient understanding of Git
- Experience building SDKs
- Comfortable working in an agile/scrum environment.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline development
Bonus Qualifications/Experience
- Gitlab CI/CD with focus on CI/CD for mobile applications
- PHI/PII and/or Med device or other device-related experience
- Demonstrated expertise in applying FDA design control requirements (21 CFR ) as applied to medical device software and medical device regulation (IEC-62304)
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