Senior iOS Engineer

About Cookpad

Cookpad is a tech company building a community platform for people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. Because we believe that cooking is the key to a happier and healthier life for people, communities and the planet.

The choices we make shape our world. And when we cook, the choices we make have an impact on ourselves, the people we cook for, the growers and producers we buy from and the wider environment.

Position

• Participating in all phases of development, from design to implementation, testing, and release of new user-facing features
• Investigate and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies
• Writing clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping

Your qualification

• Extensive experience in iOS development
• Proficiency with the iOS tech stack including Swift and Cocoa
• Deep insights and experience working directly with users
• Previous native app development experience
• Understanding of CS principles and concepts: MVC, OOP, memory management, threading, data structure & algorithms
• Experience working with RESTful server-side APIs
• Experience with multi-threaded programming
• Knowledge of optimization techniques
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Experience building adaptive UIs for iPhone/iPad with Auto Layout
• Familiar with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and App Store Review Guidelines

Will be a plus

Ideally candidates will be contributors to the open source community via Github, Stackoverflow or by the development and release of Apps to the App store.

What we offer

People join us because they share our vision to improve people’s lives. As a company Cookpad invests heavily in learning and development -we hire smart people who thrive in small, highly collaborative and energised teams, and who look at what we do and want to be part of it.

Valuing our team means we offer competitive salaries, an employee referral scheme and very generous benefits, including 7% employer pension contribution, income protection and life insurance, and an employee referral scheme. We are central to transport hubs and bike routes which helps with flexible working and all-important downtime with family and friends.

In our usual working environment breakfast is provided every day, we have a fully stocked and fully equipped team kitchen where we can cook together and there are weekly pilates/ yoga classes.

In this interim period due to the current global pandemic we are working to keep as many of our perks as possible available to our staff. This includes moving the pilates/ yoga classes online as well as company socials and attendance of meetups.