Senior iOS Developer

Location: Scarborough

Contract duration: 3- 6 months

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
• The majority of time will be focused on the Wave Mobile app project, but there could be some occasional ad hoc work

Must Have Skills:

• 10 or more years of iOS development (conceptualization, design, and development), including experience with Swift 5 and XCTest
• Strong knowledge of UIKit, Auto Layout, and building interfaces programmatically
• Familiarity with different software design patterns (MVC/MVVM), with experience providing hands-on architectural design for native iOS apps
• Hands-on experience implementing accessibility and dark mode
• Good knowledge of iOS design best practices and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Willing and able to provide designers with constructive feedback

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Bonus points for knowledge of and experience with Combine and SwiftUI
• Experience building applications that consume RESTful APIs
• Experience with tools such as: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Comfortable working on a large-scale product as part of a large and complex enterprise, with both new technologies and building on top of legacy systems
• Apple AppStore app publish / launch experience
• Prior FI / Banking experience preferred
• Prior work experience with Scotiabank, preferably working in other teams within the Bank's Digital

Soft Skills:

• Hit the ground running
• Strong communication skills (written & verbal), Interacting with Product, Design, Front-end and Back-end Teams
• Self-starter that actively engages issues seeking resolution, ability to meet dynamic changes on prioritization

Degrees or certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or a related field required