Senior Software Engineer (iOS)

Who We Are

Welcome to WillowTree, a TELUS Digital Company— where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location and Flexibility 

Our Senior Software Engineer (iOS) role will be an integral part of our leadership at WillowTree. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration both among ourselves and our clients, this role will maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid model (Work From Near).  

Learn more about Work From Near.

The Opportunity 

WillowTree is hiring for empathetic, curious developers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere, helping our clients’ ideas come to life by building robust mobile and web applications. Our iOS technologies vary by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and our Mobile experience is a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities 

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes
• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals
• You’ll stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks
• Have professional programming experience— we’re thinking at least 5 years
• Understanding of various software architectures and can adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• You’ll identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build software
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• You’ll guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy 
• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams 
• Apply your knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Qualifications 

• Are driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions
• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative
• Have professional programming experience— we’re thinking at least 5 years
• Have built and shipped code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running
• Have a strong understanding of data modeling with Swift (protocols, enums, structs, classes)
• You have familiarity with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Fastlane) and experience setting up deployment pipelines
• Frequently use the XCTest framework to test your code
• Can architect robust networking and data modeling layers
• Have owned the delivery of major featu