iOS Engineer

About Chat Grape

Grape is the result of an extensive R&D project, aimed at improving corporate communication. Get more done with a secure enterprise messenger that seamlessly connects your business processes and software environments.

Our mission is to solve complex business problems with elegant, intuitive solutions. We service thousands of happy companies around the world. Our indexAPI search engine processes millions of datasets every day and allows people to search their business faster and easier than ever before.

Position

Grape is looking for an experienced iOS developer who also has some experience with Android development or is interested in learning it.

You’ll work closely with all different team members at Grape to to build new features and fix bugs. You will be shipping code to thousands of active users.

Our engineers are also very comfortable working directly with customers to tackle bugs and answer tricky support questions. It’s important to write code with customers in mind so that we can provide the best experience possible with Grape.

Your qualification

• High level of Swift programming skills (at least one big real-world project)
• Ability to work with HTTP and Websocket APIs and help design them
• Good knowledge of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for iOS. You will be working closely together with our designer 
• Able to implement new features based on wireframes and our design guidelines

Will be a plus

• Objective-C experience, some of our libraries are still using it 
• Experience with Android (Java)
• Experience with App Extensions

What we offer

We hope that you’re excited about all the possibilities that come with working at Grape! In addition to our beautiful office close to the city center of Vienna, we also offer the possibility of working remotely. However, we do offer help for your relocation as we want you to feel at home in Vienna. We want you to be happy, inspired and to become the person that you wish to be. You will work with team members around the world and across time zones to build a better culture and product.

We organize a couple of company retreats per year to spend quality time with the whole team. Our latest retreats have been a day trip to Bratislava and a full week in the beautiful alps of Tyrol.

Additionally working at Grape offers these perks and benefits:

• Shares in our company
• Highly competitive salary
• MacBook Pro and two monitors
• Unlimited amount of coffee and club mate

Additional details

Grape for iOS

Our iOS app is a fully native app, built in-house with Swift. The app is currently undergoing a redesign, together with the Android app and the web client.

Grape is tailored to enterprise customers. We focus on security (like certificate pinning) and the app is configurable via MDM.

Tools and libraries we use (to name a few):

• Xcode
• Git, Github
• CocoaPods
• Jira for issue tracking
• Appium
• Fabric
• Alamofire
• Realm and CoreData
• SocketRocket and MDWamp (for Websockets)