Senior Software Engineer - iOS (Contractor)

Who we are   

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people. Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!  

Your role 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a part of Mindbody engineering team, you’ll pursue continuous improvement to help Mindbody achieve its mission: Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else. 
 

You’ll likely spend time working on 

• Makes implementation design decisions around new Mobile feature components


• Produces contingency plans for critical projects


• Analyses technical requirements with the team to gauge level of effort


• Breaks down complex projects and delegates work to junior engineers


• Brainstorms with Product Managers and designers to conceptualize and estimate new features


• Collaborates with backend engineers to efficiently build out new API for mobile apps


• Carefully analyses design specifications before coding to understand effort levels required


• Creates technical documentation for new features that can be easily understood by peers


• Writes and executes tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests


• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase


• Keeps abreast of new technologies


• Ensures designs and projects created comply with design library guidelines, internal best practices, and coding conventions when applicable


• All other duties as assigned

About the right team member

At Mindbody, we value team members who are curious, practical, and-openminded, and who care about our product, their teammates, and their own personal growth. We’re faced with an interesting set of technical challenges, and we believe in giving our engineers the freedom to create solutions based on their unique perspective.  

Much of our team comes from non-traditional computing backgrounds. In bringing together diverse voices, we’ll build a better product, and a better company. We care less about which languages or frameworks you know, and more that you’re excited to produce high-quality code and be consciously evolving. Our engineers work in cross-functional, collaborative teams focused on impact. We work very closely with our brilliant product team to deliver a world-class user experience, and ultimately to empower our users to create and grow successful businesses.

You’ll thrive in this role with experience in 

• 7 to 10 years of experience in iOS Engineering


• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.


• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments.


• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.


• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.


• Categories/Protocols/Patterns (MVVM, MVC, Clean in iOS, Delegate/Protocol/etc).


• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.


• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.


• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines.


• Experience in using swift package manager.


• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools (such as Instruments etc depending on project needs}.


• Unit and UI Testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability


• Expertise in building complex layouts.


• Strong UI and design skills.


• Familiar with software development lifecycle (SDLC) and programming design patterns


• Skilful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks.


• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.


• Stay updated on new iOS platform and tech trends, ensuring our applications leverage the latest technologies and methodologies.


• Effective time management skills.


• Good to have knowledge of android app development, java and Kotlin.

Technologies you’ll be working with  

While we value experience with these technologies, we’re primarily looking for team members with strong technical skills and the ability to quicky pick up new tools and frameworks 

• Objective-C, Swift, SWIFTUI, Xcode, Cocoa Touch and UI Kit.