Principal / Staff Software Engineer - iOS (Remote but Reachable)

Principal / Staff Engineer - iOS @ Luno (Remote but Reachable) 

About the team:

We're agile, use scrum, continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.

Our engineering team is split into organisations which we call Fleets. Fleets focus on a core customer journey (onboarding, security, payments, support, new business, growth and marketing etc.).  Fleet Protect and Serve purpose is to build trust with our customers through exceptional seamless security, preventing financial crime and fraud.  Fleets contain smaller teams called Pods, each Pod owns a specific aspect of the customer journey.  Pods are formed of cross functional highly skilled team members from Product, Delivery and Engineering.  

As Staff Engineer you will be a key team member of the fleet  You will be part of an inspiring team of thought leaders, working with the fleet engineering managers and director, recommending continual improvement and building the technology roadmap. 

Our mission is to put the power of crypto in everyone’s hands.

The role in a nutshell:

You’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with to help Luno succeed with our mission.  You will set standards, recommend continual improvement and mentoring fellow engineers to do the right thing.

Your focus will be on our product cyber security, and customer authentication / authorisation journey, detecting and preventing fraud and financial crime.  We put our customers at the centre of what we do.  You will work closely with our Product Managers leading the way with creative solutions centered on customer value and customer experience.

You will become the domain expert, trusted by your fellow engineers and product team to design and deliver secure, customer focused solutions.  You will be a mentor to engineers in your fleet and grow your role strategically as a key advisor to the engineering leadership team.  The role is a mix of hands-on coding and technical leadership.

Your mission will be:

• Building on distributed microservices that are accessed by over 10 million customers from nearly 50 countries.
• Be a thought leader, propose continual improvement to the way we work, how we write code, how we automate manual work, continually shift quality feedback left.
• Influence our technology strategy and roadmap, share your knowledge and research.
• Designing, building and maintaining advanced applications services.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Writing testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
• Build attractive, easy to use mobile 
• Help us select and interview Lunaut engineers of the future.
• Inspire our fellow Lunaut engineers to enjoy doing their best work, and have fun creating customer value that directly affects customers, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem.
• Shape your role to showcase the best you have to offer, get involved in all hands, technical meeting of minds and presenting to the wider community.
• Working alongside a growing team of Engineers, Principal Engineers, and our CTO Simon Ince (ex-Microsoft) on projects like…
• Protecting our customer's crypto with advanced security practices
• Modelling customer risk levels based on demographic and transactional data
• Building customer security and trust as a service
• Enabling customers to have the best experience investing in crypto currencies

A little about you:

• A background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design is highly advantageous
• Expert experience in Swift and the iOS framework, Material Design, performance of mobile applications
• Passionate about user experience of mobile applications
• You understand the benefit of behavioural driven development and how it supports delivering a great usability experience
• Previous technical lead or staff engineer experience
• Ability to mentor, coach and interview engineers
• Reduces complexity, refactors and simplifies code and systems
• Introduces processes to improve quality and efficiency
• Demonstrable experience of working with a product and infosec teams
• Strong understanding of customer experience and trust in identity, authentication, authorisation and access control of Luno products, or a keen interest to become an expert in the customer security domain
• Secure system, application, API and coding standards including OWASP
• DevSecOps principles integrating security principles and testing into software development