Mobile Software Engineer II (iOS)

TD•Toronto, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Canadian Personal Banking - iOS Mobile Team is seeking a Mobile Software Engineer II (iOS). This role involves developing new solutions, features, and enhancements for iOS applications. You will perform unit/component testing, support business inquiries through enhancements and break/fix implementations, and potentially conduct peer code reviews. You will collaborate with technology partners to ensure components meet requirements and performance goals, analyze technical requirements, and estimate coding efforts. The role also includes monitoring product lifecycles, documenting system components and architecture designs, participating in quality management reviews, and ensuring defect-free programming. You will provide technical expertise during incident management, analyze incident reports, perform impact assessments, and facilitate communication during incident resolution. Additionally, you will assist in developing and maintaining processes for issue prevention, participate in problem determination, and ensure adherence to enterprise frameworks and methodologies. A key aspect of this role is to collaboratively engage with stakeholders to proactively prevent defects and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and automation. You will conduct meaningful analysis, identify cost-saving opportunities, and perform code reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, reusability, and maintainability. You will also monitor service and productivity, assess efficiency, and implement improvements. Leading and facilitating remediation plans for performance, risk, or governance issues is also part of the role. You will manage relationships with internal and external partners, protect the organization's interests by managing risks, and stay updated on emerging issues and regulatory requirements. Maintaining a culture of risk management and control is essential. You will participate fully as a team member, support a positive work environment, and ensure timely communication. Providing thought leadership, sharing knowledge, and mentoring team members are also expected. You will keep current on emerging trends and grow your knowledge of the business and related tools. Personal performance management and development activities, including cross-training, are part of the role. You will keep others informed about project status and relevant information. You will also lead, motivate, and develop relationships with business partners and stakeholders, contributing to a fair, positive, and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce. Acting as a brand ambassador for your business area and the bank is also expected.

Requirements

University or College degree/diploma in Computer Science or equivalent field
5+ years of experience with Swift programming language, with a good understanding of Objective-C
3+ years of hands-on experience developing iOS applications using SwiftUI and UIKit
Proven expertise in SwiftUI (2+ years) with a focus on adaptive UI design and reusable components
Strong proficiency in Swift Concurrency (Async/Await, minimum 2 years) and Combine (minimum 2 years) for handling asynchronous tasks and reactive programming
Strong working knowledge of WKWebView and SFSafariViewController for integrating responsive web solutions using SSO patterns and best practices
Experience implementing VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Dark Mode to ensure accessibility-compliant applications
Solid understanding of modern architectural patterns including MVVM and POP, with a focus on maintainable and modular code structure
Hands-on experience in building, maintaining, and integrating reusable frameworks and modules, ensuring modular architecture
Demonstrated ability to write comprehensive unit tests using XCTest, Swift Testing, and Snapshot tests, ensuring high code reliability and test coverage (minimum 80%)
Expertise in AutoLayout for creating responsive and adaptive screens across multiple device sizes
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, adept at identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing efficient solutions
Extensive experience with Xcode Instruments, Accessibility Inspector, and Git, adhering to best practices in version control and continuous integration
Competency in CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager for efficient dependency management and project organization
Comfortable with collective code ownership and pair programming, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing team environment
Excellent communication and technical documentation skills, capable of conducting peer code reviews and articulating complex technical concepts clearly

Nice To Haves

Experience of ApplePay and Wallet (PassKit)
Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and workflows, with a focus on automating testing, builds, and deployments
Scripting skills using Ruby, Python, yaml and Bash for automating repetitive tasks and optimizing development workflows

Responsibilities

Develop new solutions as required for engineering programs and projects within assigned area
Develop new features and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
Support business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes)
May also be responsible for peer code review.
Work with technology partners to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals
Analyze the technical requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound engineering specific solutions for own area, may be involved in coding/story estimates
Work with other stakeholders, internal technology partners to ensure engineering solutions meet technical direction, requirements, performance, time-to-market and innovation goals
Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and engineering decisions, undertaking re-development where required
Document and verify system components, applications, system infrastructure, security, integration, operability and engineering related architecture designs associated with a program or project
Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements
Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
Provide technical expertise during Incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution
Participate in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives
Assist in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures
Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to software engineering activities
Ensure respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities
Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
Actively seek and support continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the engineering practice
Conduct meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using results to draw conclusions, make recommendations, assess the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices
Identify opportunities to minimize cost, provide recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience
Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review sign-offs for solution design
Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exists
Lead / facilitate and/or implement actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues
Actively manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high risk activities as necessary
Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
Provide thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues
Lead, motivate and develop relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally