Senior Software Engineer (Mobile - iOS)

Overview

Pearson is a global education company that helps people around the world to make progress in their lives through learning. With a rich heritage that combines 150 years of experience in publishing with the latest learning technology and digital services, we help people to learn whatever, wherever and however they choose.

We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education.

The Role

A key engineering role in the development of native mobile applications for the Apple’s iOS platform. Works with a variety of technologies while providing the guidance & support to the team members in an agile environment with a strong focus on engineering best practices, incremental delivery, continuous integration and test driven development.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years of experience in software engineering.

• Bachelors degree in Computing, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent.

• The desire to learn and continuously improve on the product quality, performance and other non functional requirements.

• Strong and effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact with prompt and professionalism to the teams across multiple geographies and time zones.

• 3+ years hands on experience in developing native iOS applications with XCode using Objective C as the primary language.

• Ability to develop, deploy and maintain native mobile applications for Apple’s iOS mobile operating system.

• Hands on experience in deploying applications to App Store.

• Experience in debugging and troubleshooting native iOS applications using Instruments and LLDB.

• Experience in writing unit tests using OCUnit or XCTest frameworks.

• Experience in designing and implementing services for connected mobile applications(REST, JSON, Node.js).

• Knowledge on OOP, Analysis & Design, Architectural & Design Patterns.

• Experience in Agile software development practices such as SCRUM & TDD / ATDD.

• Basic experience or knowledge on building, packaging & deployment tools and database technologies.

• Provision of in-depth technical skills to fix ad-hoc incidents/problems, mentoring and support DevOps teams to ensure best practice.

• Experience in developing native Android applications and hybrid mobile applications using HTML technologies / Cordova / Phone Gap / Titanium will be an added advantage.

          Please submit your CV using the following link http://pearsonlankavacancies.peopleshr.com/