Lead Mobile Engineer

Birmingham
3 weeks ago
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Lead Mobile Engineer
About Engineius
Engineius’ goal is simple: to make vehicle movement easy. We are on our way to creating the leading end-to-end movement solution in the UK for our customers (such as Hertz and The AA), delivered by our network of 600+ drivers and transport agents across the UK.
Since going live in April 2018, we have acquired over 80 clients, many of whom can claim to be amongst the largest players in the UK automotive industry. We are already one of the largest competitors in our space but have ambitions to grow much further and we are crazy about sustainability. To date we have saved fleets over 9,000,000 tonnes of CO2.
We are seeing our hard work paying off as we have won seven awards, including Best Fleet Software three years in a row, a highly commended well-being award, two innovation awards, and one outstanding product of the year award.
About the Position
Development and management of our productions systems moved in-house a little under four years ago, since then we have been building out a seriously talented team to grow our platform. Our core application is hosted in AWS on Linux containers, developed in C# .NET Core with a SPA Angular front-end along with an accompanying native mobile app on iOS & Android. We also have some data processing services and machine learning workloads.
You will be a core member of the IT team delivering our 24/7 production system. Having been involved in production systems with multiple years of experience, you will have architected and built new applications and features, provided ongoing improvements and fixes. You’ll be the type of Engineer who is very comfortable diving deep into code. With this knowledge you’ll be able to quickly get up to speed with our application domain and start making an impact.
For the mobile development, we are looking for experience of Kotlin and Swift, and for someone who has experience developing native mobile apps and APIs.
Your primary focus is shared between the ongoing improvement and support of our mobile app and improvement and support of our web app where necessary. You will be working alongside the Developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality solutions is essential.
As we are in our ‘growth phase’ you will be joining this expanding IT team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, enjoys the vibrant nature of a start-up like environment, is focused on helping us to build our platform, adaptable to change, and keen to help in our overall vision.
What You'll Do:

  • Translate designs, wireframes and user stories into high quality solutions.
  • Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and web.
  • Participate in the full development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance.
  • Research and track advancements in mobile/web application design patterns.
  • Break any design problem down into viable actionable units of work and solve them with clarity and precision.
  • Staying in the loop and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the mobile/web design field.
  • Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code.
  • Cooperating with the back-end developers in the process of building the RESTful API.
  • Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
  • Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
  • Help maintain build server Xcode and packages.
    What We're Looking For:
  • Hands-on experience with core iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Combine, Core Data, and Core Animation.
  • Ability to optimise and enhance the performance of iOS applications.
  • Proven track record of developing and maintaining iOS applications.
  • Proven ability to deliver high quality designs to meet customer requirements.
  • Deep knowledge of SPA best practices, architecture and modularisation based on extensive work experience.
  • Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning.
  • Experience of geo-location, tracking, and mapping is beneficial.
  • Deep understanding of Apple’s HID guidelines, and Google’s Material design.
  • Familiarity with cloud message APIs and Push Notifications.
  • Knack for Benchmarking and Optimisation.
  • Proficient understanding of version control software such as Git.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration.
  • Multiple years development and delivery of mobile applications in a commercial environment on iOS/Android platforms with a portfolio of mobile applications that demonstrate your ability to build and support mobile applications that integrate into corporate business critical systems.
  • Significant portfolio of applications built with a SPA framework either wholly by yourself or as part of a team where significant portions of the application were built by you.
    Technical Experience: iOS Development using Swift; Combine Framework; UIKit; Git
    Experience of the following would be beneficial: Kotlin; C# .NET Core; Angular or another SPA framework; UX / UI Design; Amazon Web Services; Gitlab CI or another CI/CD platform; RESTful API design; SQLite and MySQL; Mobile Automation Testing (e.g. Appium, Espresso)
    What’s In It For You
    Grow with us
    You will be part of a growing and ambitious company! We want you to be happy and enjoy coming to work where you are surrounded by a supportive team.
    In the heart of Birmingham
    We are based in Birmingham city centre at Somerset House, only a 5-minute walk from Grand Central train station. In summer you can enjoy the rooftop terrace and views of the city!
    Socials and more!
    Social events and activities are held in the building once a month. We have quarterly company socials which in the past have been rooftop quiz nights, mini golf and a meal at Fazenda.
    Fitness and wellbeing
    Your wellbeing and health matters to us. In the building there is a gym and showers that you can use before, during or after work. If you like golf, you can enjoy practising on the golf simulator too.
    Time to relax
    Well-deserved time off- you will get 25 days off a year plus bank holidays. You will also get an additional day with every completed year of service up to a maximum of 30 days per annum.
    Learning & Development
    We’re passionate about your growth! We are always exploring new and exciting ways to elevate your skills and expand your potential through dynamic training opportunities.
    Exclusive Benefits Platform
    Unlock a world of perks! Our benefits platform gives you access to amazing discounts, exciting rewards, and valuable resources to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing because we believe in taking care of YOU.
    Join Us
    If you want to be part of a forward-thinking, sustainable company and you embrace positivity, we would love to hear from you! Click apply now and you will be redirected to our website to complete your application

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