IOS Engineer

Job Description

As an Engineer (iOS), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, applying architectural and engineering principles to define and deliver technology that will improve our customer experiences, improve efficiency, and reduce business costs, helping us lower prices. With your technical craft, curiosity, and experimentation, you’ll use judgment to apply specific techniques to deliver outcomes that support our customers.

We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer-centric mindset and a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, and mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.

We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match.

In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK.

More about the role

1. You’ll support and enable performance within the team by providing technical knowledge and ideas.
2. You’ll be part of the design and development of large-scale, high-performance app using technologies such as Swift and the latest frameworks.
3. Develop within a codebase utilizing technologies writing great quality Swift using well-known patterns such as MVVM, MVC, Clean Architecture, Redux.
4. Have a passion for learning and utilizing the newest iOS technologies.
5. You’ll work in a cross-platform team, working on our iOS app but will have the opportunity to learn and work with our other technologies.
6. You’ll contribute to the entire product development lifecycle, from roadmap, to delivery to potential decommissioning too.
7. You’ll help to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and your product.
8. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that highly values empathy and team spirit.
9. You’ll work to develop highly tested and well-architected projects.

More about you

1. You have experience in writing great quality Swift using well-known patterns such as MVVM, MVC, Clean Architecture.
2. Experience with iOS frameworks such as UIKit.
3. Experience with XCTest and XCUITest.
4. Experience with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.
5. Experience with Apple's interface guidelines.
6. Familiarity with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments.
7. Proficient understanding of Git.
8. Familiarity with CI/CD and Fastlane.
9. Familiarity with Firebase / Firebase Analytics.
10. Experience with SPM and CocoaPods.
11. Familiarity with Alamofire, PromiseKit and a Reactive framework.
12. Beneficial to have SwiftUI and Combine.
13. Beneficial to have knowledge of KMP (Kotlin Multiplatform) and be open to work on this approach.
14. You have proven experience of software design and implementation, testing, security, and CI/CD.
15. You’re driven and constantly striving to improve your own knowledge, the team, and the division.
16. You’re empathetic and work well with others, and you’re highly collaborative in your ways of working.
17. You have experience with agile delivery methodologies.
18. You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle.
19. You keep up to date with industry trends and emerging tech.

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

1. Colleague discount across our multi-brands.
2. Time allowed within work hours for personal development.
3. Holiday allowance.
4. Bonus scheme.
5. Pension plan.
6. Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new-whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.