iOS Developer II (12 month contract)

Rakuten Kobo Inc.•Toronto, ON

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an iOS Developer II, you will be a critical contributor to the entire Kobo app. You will take ownership over key features and deliver them from inception to completion. We pride ourselves in a collaborative environment, and you will have input over future product direction and features. You will be joining the iOS team within the Global Apps group. We have recently re-written our iOS app in pure Swift/Swift UI. While most of the code inside the app is new native Swift code, the app incorporates some legacy React Native components (such as the reading experience). There is an existing React Native team to maintain these components, with integration and support provided by the iOS team as needed.

Requirements

5+ years building production iOS apps with Swift, including meaningful ownership of shipped features.
Strong proficiency with Swift UI, with experience building complex UI
Solid grasp of Swift concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, cancellation, thread-safety).
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with a unidirectional architecture such as The Composable Architecture (TCA) or similar patterns.
Strong functional programming fundamentals
Previous UI Kit and Objective-C experience, although our app is fully written in Swift/Swift UI.
Experience with modularization (Swift Package Manager) and CI improvements.

Responsibilities

Contribute new features to the Kobo App
Fix issues and maintain the quality of the codebase
Take complete ownership of features and tasks
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Backend, and QA to clarify requirements, break down work, and ship iteratively