More about the role

Functional Knowledge

• Experience coding with Swift

• Experience coding with Objective-C is a plus

• Reactive programming experience with RxSwift & Combine

• UIKit/SwiftUI

• XCFrameworks/Swift Package Manager

• Good understanding of development best practices, SOLID Principles, modular architecture

• Knowledge of New Look’s applications & environments

• Practical understanding of New Look’s application architecture

• Skilled in the use of tools used for software testing, debugging & profiling (e.g. Instruments, Charles Proxy)

Leadership

• Closely collaborate, and peer review code with other members of the team

• Proven experience of making decisions based on data

• Experience coaching/mentoring junior/graduate members of the team

Problem Solving

• Ability to understand, design, PoC, and implement software features based on:

o Understanding of the functionality, and the business impact of it

o Prioritization of the functionality, and it’s influence in our ability to trade

Nature of Impact

• It is the responsibility of the Senior iOS Developer –alongside Engineering, Test, and Product Leads– that the quality of the features being developed are fit for release to a live environment, and our customers, are maintainable, and properly architected.

Area of Impact

• Senior iOS Developers impact the work within the development team, help with the estimation of the efforts required to bring a feature to our customers and informs the engineering & product teams, on the dependencies for the features being developed.

Interpersonal Skills

• Proven experience making decisions

• Produces accurate results and demonstrates attention to detail

• Delivers results at pace without compromising quality

• Able to work on own initiative whilst observing defined processes

• Questioning, challenging, and business analytical mind

• Good time management skills, and organisational ability

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience leading others

• Builds good working relationships, and collaborate with other areas like Product, Testing, Engineering & DevOps

• Flexible and able to cope with change

Key Relationships

Internally

• Mobile Engineering Lead (line/functional manager)

• Backend team

• Testing team

• Automation/DevOps team

• Product team

• Scrum Masters

• Application services team

• Application development teams

Externally

• Vendors

• Implementation partners

• Third party application service providers

• Third party testing providers

Behavioural Skills

• Good decision making

• Produces accurate results, and demonstrates attention to detail

• Delivers results at pace without compromising quality

• Leads by example, providing support, and coaching team members

• Meet team targets, and flags on time when this won’t be possible

Measures / Key Performance Indicator’s

• Writes clean, and maintainable code, and enforces good coding practices to other members of the team

• Delivers closely to the estimates without compromising quality

• Guarantees that features developed meet the functional and non-functional requirements, and quality standards required by New Look

• Identify opportunities for refactoring code, and add automation to speed up the development, testing, and release cycle within a CI/CD pipeline

• Quality of applications is maintained or improved with each release by avoiding the introduction of regression bugs, and working closely with testing team to fix issues