iOS Software Engineer at Cowrywise

Cowrywise is a fintech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply.

Job Title: iOS Software Engineer

Location: Lagos

About the position:

• We are looking for an experienced iOS Engineer to join our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. You will work closely with the backend engineers, designers and product managers.
• You should be able to write clean code and ensure your applications run properly. We also expect you to be passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits and be able to perform well working in a dynamic environment. We prefer engineers that love beautiful products and can pay keen attention to details.

What you will do:

As an iOS engineer, you will:

• Contribute to and maintain our iOS mobile application with over 500K downloads, using clean and concise code in Swift.
• Work together with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features regularly.
• Interact with our backend APIs as well as 3rd party interfaces, frameworks and libraries.
• Create and execute unit tests on your code, to ensure its robustness, accounting for edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Troubleshoot issues, fix bugs and improve our application performance.
• Explore and utilize new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience of working in an iOS Engineer position
• At least one original iOS app published to the App Store
• Solid understanding of iOS design patterns, Swift, SwiftUI & Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
• Good experience of working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Good familiarity with third-party libraries and APIs
• Good knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to learn and discover more – about iOS Engineering, about FinTech in Nigeria and globally, and how you can help us achieve our mission for our customers
• Constantly improving your craft in pursuit of creating the best possible user experiences and solving complex but interesting problems.
• Proactively finding, fixing and reporting potential bugs or user experience issues in collaboration with others.