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Sporty Group

iOS Engineer

Posted 9 Days Ago
Remote
Junior
Remote
Junior
As an iOS Engineer at Sporty, you'll develop and enhance our iOS app while collaborating with Product Managers and Designers. Key responsibilities include building app features, conducting code reviews, creating technical documentation, and mentoring junior team members. A strong understanding of software engineering practices and iOS development is essential.
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We consistently top the charts as one of if not the most used Sports Betting website in the countries we operate in. 

With millions of weekly active users, we strive to be the best in industry for our users.


Sporty launched its first iOS app to its millions of users at the end of January 2021. As an iOS developer in our team, you’ll be on the ground floor for the greenfield development of one of Africa’s most popular iOS apps expanding into our latest global territories.


Our Stack


Languages: Swift

Architecture: MVC, MVVM

Layout: Programmatic UI, Xib

Testing: XCTest

Dependency management: Swift Package Manager

CI/CD: Fastlane, Github Action, Jenkins


Responsibilities


Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products on iOS

Build end-to-end features of the app, such as networking, persistence, business logic and UI

Prepare and maintain documents that include architectural diagrams and navigation maps in your area of expertise

Analyse and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential issues in systems and procedures across the organisation, as well as design and recommend new solutions

Participate in code reviews with team members to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate

Mentor less experienced team members


Requirements


2+ years of professional experience developing consumer-facing iOS applications using Swift

Experience developing, delivering, and supporting native iOS applications by integrating REST APIs, push notifications and multithreaded experience

Solid foundation around software engineering fundamentals, object-oriented programming, MVC architecture, and iOS design patterns

Deep understanding of multi-threading, memory management, networking, caching, performance optimisation, localisation, and security for mobile applications

A creative approach to problem solving and crafting simplified solutions

Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

Previous history of working with a remote, distributed team would be beneficial


Bonus Requirements


Experience with mobile video playback and streaming technologies

Experience with reactive programming, e.g. RxSwift, Combine 

Experience with AVFoundation, CoreData, WKWebView 

Experience with TCP / IP socket

Benefits


Quarterly bonuses

We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this

Top-of-the-line equipment

Referral bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Annual company retreat

Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation

Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system 

Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful

Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members


Our Mission


Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone


Our Operating Principles


1. Create Value for Users

2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty 

3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation 

4. Be Responsible 

5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty 

6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy 

7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability 

8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride


Interview Process


Online HackerRank Test (Max time of 90 Minutes)

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team 

Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)

24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process


Post Interview Process


Feedback call on successful interview

Offer released followed by contract

ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers



Working at Sporty


The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.

Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results. 


As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. 


We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.

Top Skills

Swift

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