iOS Mobile Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Budapest

Reporting To: Francis Jackson

Description

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.
We’re changing that.
We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.
2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.
This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.
The Freetrade iOS mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU. 
We are looking for an iOS Mobile Engineer to join our team at Freetrade.
The role requires someone with a good understanding of the iOS mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.  
This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside experienced and knowledgeable engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities. 
You will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will:

• Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade iOS app. Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features. 
• Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews. 
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
• Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues

You have:

• Typically around 2-3 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
• Strong ability to problem solve and passionate about improving your skills and knowledge
• Good knowledge of Swift
• Good understanding of iOS frameworks, with either UIKit or SwiftUI
• Familiarity with using APIs to connect iOS applications to backend services.
• Started to develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines
• Working understanding of using code versioning tools (such as Git).
• Appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).

Benefits & Logistics

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.  

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

Office first culture - we have beautiful office spaces in central London and Budapest where four days a week you collaborate with colleagues in person, one of our core behaviours is that we’re a team that works better together. 
Values - at Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview! 
Benefits In Budapest:

• Competitive salary - carefully benchmarked.
• Sickness coverage - You get a 100% coverage up to 15 days/annum.
• Cafeteria - an annual budget to spend at your discretion, whether by adding it to your SZÉP card, covering car-sharing expenses, or using it toward your rent.
• Health insurance - Medicover Blue package, which includes annual preventive examinations, extensive outpatient care, diagnostic tests, one-day surgeries, dental check-up, and even therapeutic exercises.
• Learning & Development - We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional. 
• Option to Work From Anyw