Senior iOS Engineer - Waterfront Platform, DCS Lab App Team

JOB TITLE: Senior iOS Engineer

SALARY: £ 70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

We’re looking for a self-starting, initiative chasing, seasoned iOS Engineer with extensive experience. Expectation is that you’re up to date with modern iOS but exposed to the “classical side” too. You’ll also be an all-round team player, that’s approachable and supportive to those around you. We welcome a diverse range of people and personalities and expect that you embrace this and thrive within inclusive and collaborative team settings.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

• Contribute to an ever-growing mobile application with aspirations of a multi-million user base.

• Innovate and find opportunities to reduce boiler plate, complexity and speed up the release cycle of revenue generating customer features and functionality.

• Identify ways in which the mobile application can be more modular, shareable and easier to test; own and drive these.

• Build a useful and helpful network across the organisation to achieve your and the teams aspirations.

• Continually contribute to better our adoption of Agile processes and the tools therein – such as Jira and Confluence.

• Contribute to levelling up how we design, build and operate mobile native software at scale within the LBG through the wider engineering community.

• Technically mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, through code reviews and design documents.

• Pro-actively identify gaps in the technology stack, processes and propose, drive and own solutions to these.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• Professional hands-on experience and working knowledge in building features for iOS Apps. This extends to the full stack from low level security APIs, networking, configuration as well as pipelines.

• You’ll have experience of working within a regulated environment and know what that means for mobile development.

• Proficiency in Swift, Swift UI, UIKit, URLSession, Generics, POP, Higher Level Functional APIs.

• Understanding of Web integration in mobile applications, specifically JS Bridges. Any exposure to REACT JS is beneficial.

• Solid understanding of software architecture (MVVM), design patterns (SOLID, DRY) and standard processes, ability to have in depth technical discussion and debate and contribute to the various communities across the vast LBG technical estate.

• Unit, UI and Snapshot Testing, Appium and Typescript is a plus.

• In-depth knowledge and experience of interacting with RESTful APIs, parsing JSON responses and extensive use of Codable protocols and extending these. Any knowledge of OpenAPI is beneficial.

• Understanding of WebAuthN, oAuth in principle and implementation even better.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive the best outcomes for customers.

• Exposure to design tools such as Figma.

• A rock-solid understanding of Git (rebasing v merging for example), source code management and managing change. Experience of Jenkins, Gitlab, Github and facilities therein, understanding of Github workflows and YAML is a plus.

• Extensive experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).

• Building technology and automation into our standards and quality process and approaches to continually improve and lift the bar and reduce manual burden from our engineering.

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.

• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring and support junior members.

• Insatiable appetite for knowledge, self-improvement and training opportunities for yourself but also for the team.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.