Senior iOS Mobile Engineer (International)

Varsity Tutors is searching for a highly-skilled, action-oriented Sr Mobile Engineer (full-time contractor) based internationally. We operate in a highly collaborative environment with Product and Design to build customer experiences: at Varsity Tutors, engineers do not just write code, they actively participate in the conversation on what and how to build the systems and solutions that matter to our customers. If you love having a positive, material impact on your customers’ lives as much as we do, we want to hear from you.

In this position, you will…

• Join a highly motivated & collaborative team of remote engineers, mentoring your junior and intermediate peers towards excellence. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders and partners across teams and departments

• Write performant, maintainable code that is easy to read and well-documented

• Write automated tests to thoroughly validate the correctness of your code

• Deploy large-scale web applications

• Have a focus on quality, and operate iteratively to get from good to better

• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotation; we all own our code end-to-end from development to deployment to operations

• Come ready to learn from some of the best and brightest in the industry

• Work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and fast-moving team

• Be effective in a team environment working with fellow engineers, product management, and design

General qualifications:

• Computer Science or related degree

• Top-notch teamwork and communication skills.

• Ability to manage your workload with minimal supervision

• Understanding of OO design, algorithms, and data structures

• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary

• Strong code versioning skills (rebase/merge/pull requests/squashing)

• A strong and proven experience in building native apps

Coding qualifications: 

• Experience with continuous integration (Ideally via github actions)

• Experience with Objective C, Swift and Swift UI

• Experience with Core Data, Storyboards, and Xibs

• Experience with Cocoapods and/or Carthage

• MVVM architectural pattern, Singleton, Dependency injection

• Candidates that have a portfolio of apps on live on the store will be highly considered

• Keeping up to date with WWDC and staying tuned with the latest best practices

• Familiarity with Google services (Mainly Firebase)

• Familiarity with AWS Services (e.g. EKS, RDS, Kinesis, EC2, Lambda, et cetera)

• Familiarity with push notifications, APIs, and cloud messaging

• Nice to have experience with Twilio, Vonage (Opentok), and Lottie

• Nice to have some python or other scripting experience

Varsity Tutors Leadership Principles:

Relentless Focus on Customers * Comfort with Ambiguity * Ownership * Simplify * Intellectual Curiosity * Build Teams * Think Big * Insist on High Standards * Bias for Action * Build Trust * Go Deep * Have Conviction * Deliver Results * Are Right, a Lot

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary

• Remote Position

• Flexible PTO

• Hackfest! (Multiple times per year)

• Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)

• A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help transform how the world learns!

• A fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture

Note: Please feel comfortable applying, even if you don’t meet all the requirements for the position. We’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. Everyone can grow at Varsity Tutors. Apply now if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day! 

Varsity Tutors is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. (INDHP)