iOS Mobile Engineer

Job description
Department: Engineering

Location: London

Compensation: £40,000 - £50,000 / year

Description

iOS Mobile Engineer

London

At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It's one of the best ways to grow your savings but, for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.

We're here to change that.

We're building a team with diverse and unique perspectives in order to help us on our mission to demystify investing.

Our goal is to help our customers achieve better, long-term financial outcomes.

In the UK, we now have over 1.6m registered users, offering a range of products like the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and our premium plan, Freetrade Plus. We'll be continuing to transform our product, developing new features and introducing new products.

The Freetrade iOS mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU.

We are looking for an iOS mobile engineer to join our team at Freetrade.

The role requires someone with a good understanding of the iOS mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside experienced and knowledgeable engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities..

You will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will...
• Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade iOS app. Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
• Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues

About you:
• Typically around 1 to 2 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
• Strong ability to problem solve and passionate about improving your skills and knowledge
• Good knowledge of Swift
• Good understanding of iOS frameworks, with either UIKit or SwiftUI
• Familiarity with using APIs to connect iOS applications to backend services.
• Started to develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines
• Working understanding of using code versioning tools (such as Git).
• Appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).

Benefits Logistics

The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager, technical interview (pair programming exercise and separate open discussion on mobile architecture), concluding with a cultural and behavioural interview.

We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and lots of other benefits.

You'll have a stake in the company you're building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog. Read more