Ios Developer (Remote)

If fashion is your passion, here is your opportunity to be working with the coolest digital ecommerce team in the Middle East, serving all your fashion needs in one place!

Ounass is your one stop destination for all things luxury making it The Definitive Home of Luxury. It’s our homegrown, local, e-commerce platform catering to the Middle Eastern customers across a realm of axes such as – Fashion consisting of Womenswear, Menswear & Kidswear, Beauty, Watches, Home & Jewelry.

At Ounass, we strongly believe that our culture is what brings us together and helps us succeed. We strive to be the leading luxury technology platform in the Middle East region, making sure we’re the first choice for our customers. We’re highly customer focus driven, ensuring that both our customers and employees are the core of the business. We’re recognized for our incredibly fast 2 hours delivery services within Dubai, while also providing a fabulous and dedicated Personal Shopping service for our VIP clientele.

We fall under the umbrella of a distinguished Al Tayer Group and are based in the ever happening and multi-cultural city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We currently are a growing family of 400 employees spread across the globe – UAE, United Kingdom, Turkey, Portugal, Ukraine and Sri Lanka. Ounass focuses and emphasizes on having a highly diverse and inclusive team consisting of 43 different nationalities, ensuring a strong cultural foothold. Our young, vibrant and growing team of 400 is extremely ambitious and is constantly innovating while growing the brand name and position together as a team.

We are seeking a talented IOS Developer to join our team and take ownership of end-to-end product quality. This includes developing and maintaining core app frameworks, eliminating scroll jank, and ensuring that our apps are reliable, high-performing, and delightful to use.

What you’ll be doing?

• Managing the native application development activities for mobile devices (iOS), with responsibility for delivery in terms of timing and quality.
• Close collaboration with the product owner on the business side and the business analysts with the aim of gathering specifications and performing the assessment of the effort needed to implement them.
• Work with the Solution Architects to ensure the team delivers to best practice & quality guidelines.
• Daily review of code developed and related critical evaluation, with particular attention to UX, stability and performance issues.
• Implementation of the QA process, in collaboration with the relevant team.
• Help define best practices on iOS development and contribute for a share and learn driven environment.
• Proposal and evaluation of services and external libraries to be integrated into the applications, through the development of POCs.
• Drive feature development and help improve end-to-end product quality.
• Contribute for cross team development of common libraries.
• Unwavering commitment to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Work closely with other Product Development teams to improve consistency and timing of releases.
• Write Unit Tests.
• Implement complex solutions with state-of-the-art technologies together with the team.
• Work in an agile, cross functional team taking responsibility for the engineering team deliverables.
• Take a proactive & hands on approach in all sprints and tasks.
• Create prototypes of new ideas and explore new technologies on the forefront of mobile technology.

We are looking for…

• You have 5+ years of experience in B2B / B2C Digital Commerce.
• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Knowledge of the development languages and tools for the main iOS platform, including profiling and testing tools.
• Has experience on remote working culture and has at least 2 years of experience working within Agile remote teams for “Clients”.
• Strong experience with the main IOS frameworks (UIKit, CoreData, Foundation, etc).
• SwiftUI experience is a plus.
• Strong experience with Swift 5.0 and higher
• Experience with UI automation (any tool).
• Experience with OS X shell scripting and Xcode’s / Fastlane’s command-line tools.
• Deep knowledge of Apple’s HIG, design best practices, coding and naming guidelines.
• Good knowledge of software design patterns and software architecture principles.
• Knowledge of agile development methods.
• Excellent Knowledge of OOP best practices, pattern-oriented architecture and of the principles of the architectural design.
• Passion for object-oriented, well structured, readable and testable code.
• Excellent knowledge of versioning software tools (Git).
• Experience with integration of app with web services (SOAP, REST).
• Knowledge of REST API architecture.
• Understand client side development as well as the API backend stack.
• A passion for clean code.
• Detail oriented and excellent teamwork skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of the organization.
• Excellent sense of prioritization and time management.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

What is in it for you!

• The opportunity to shape the future of fashion with a dynamic & autonomous multinational team
• Big potential for personal growth, training, and further development of skills
• Attractive employee discounts across our brands
• The latest technology tools
• Non-stop learning
• 365 days of loving what you do