Principal Software Engineer iOS

Job Description

Were hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our Retail app team that supports our 70 branches across the UK. The mission of the team is to leverage the capabilities of an iOS app to help customers make in-store purchases, and as a result give time back to our in-store colleagues.This is a chance to innovate and experiment at scale, build services that millions of customers will interact with and work in an inclusive product team that aligns with our retail business and their goals.Weve been going through a digital transformation, changing how we deliver value to our business. A big part of this change is fostering a culture of being open and honest, collaborating, having fun and enabling psychological safety. We want to create a place for teams to do their best work. The Team The team is made up of a delivery manager, a product manager, designers, QA and software engineers. We like to keep our teams small enough that they become a unit of delivery, but large enough that people can pair and mob on tasks and knowledge can be shared out.Were looking for someone with lots of experience buildingiOS apps in Swift. There are times when youll be pairing on design changes using SwiftUI, and others when youll beplanning API changes andworking with our Platform team to create a scalable backend in .Net or NodeJS.We also swarm on issues with the wider teams if required using the equivalent of an Andon cord so people are alerted to, and team up on fixes together. At every point, youll have the support of your team and the business to do the right thing with autonomy, mastery, and purpose.Above everything else, youll have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define standards across the teams and contribute to a healthy and happy working environment. About You Within your current organisation, you are a technical team lead, capable of guiding developers to build things in a clean, scalable way. You support those around you, you are constantly learning and work in a kind, considerate and collaborative manner with a keen interest in new ways of working.The ideal candidate would have experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams, leading engineers to build solutions that offer real business value, able to coach on better practices based on continuous improvement and working to deliver as a team.You see the value in test-driven development, committing to trunk, making your work open and supporting your colleagues career progression through coaching and mentoring as we try and create meaningful change at Footasylum based on working together.Were offering up to £70,000 for the right person, which we assess based on your own experiences, technical skills and against the principles of our department and our ways of working. Diversity We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences. Recruitment Process We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit well invite you to meet with a few members of the Footasylum team for an informal chat about the role over Zoom, and to see if were a good fit for you. You will hear from us the same day on whether we would like to bring you back to meet the team for a follow up interview where well give you a chance to show us how you think and what your approach to a take-home scenario is.With the COVID-19 situation our teams are all working remotely, adjusting to this new way of working as best we can - and as such well help make the interview process is as clear and stress-free as possible, giving you the same opportunity as if we were meeting face to face.Were not fans of coding challenges or whiteboard interviews, we value open and honest conversations and collaboration instead, giving you a chance to learn about what were doing in an informal, friendly environment, and for you to show us how you think about problems and present solutions. Responsibilities

Being the technical lead for our Retail app development team.

Defining and ensuring technical governance is followed by the development team.

Coaching and mentoring of the Software Engineers on the team.

Running experiments and creating proof of concepts to test project assumptions.

Working alongside the Product Manager and Delivery Manager in order to break down requirements into deliverables.

Creating a stable and scalable mobile application architecture to support business growth.

Ensuring the team is working towards and implementing better practices such as test-driven development, SOLID principles and clean code.

Creating the framework and foundations for the development team, i.e. Data First, TDD, DevOps.

Supporting the professional development of their community and championing continuous improvement.

Helping teams to collaborate and co-ordinate activities on joint objectives.

Essential

Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly visualise and describe technical solutions.

A good understanding of UX and how to build the right thing for the end user.

Broad knowledge of the software development lifecycle.

Coaching and mentor of team members.

Co-ordination of work across multiple streams.

Extensive experience developing iOS applications using Swift.

Confident working with other teams to create and consume web services.

Values data-driven decisions over opinions.

Experience in building and deploying cloud-based applications and backend services in Microsoft Azure or AWS