Senior Software Engineer - IOS

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Job Description

Your Team: The Times Technology team is responsible for developing and enhancing the digital products of The Times and The Sunday Times, including our website and mobile apps. We work collaboratively with internal and external digital platform teams to deliver industry-leading solutions.

Our team of over 120 professionals is agile, cross-functional, and diverse, with members based in London, Sofia, and Bangalore. Together, we are united by our passion for delivering world-class digital experiences.

Your Role: As a Senior Software Engineer - IOS, you will contribute to the development of best-in-class mobile apps, working closely with product owners, stakeholders, and your engineering peers to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions. You will report to a Principal Engineer, supporting the delivery of technical strategies and tactical implementations, while also mentoring other engineers to maintain high standards of engineering excellence.

Day to day you will:

• Develop new features and optimise existing ones for mobile applications to ensure they meet user needs.
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver quality mobile apps.
• Participate in technical discussions to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and fit for purpose.
• Mentor and guide other engineers to uphold high coding standards and best practices.
• Support the Principal Engineer in delivering technical strategies and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, security, and performance.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration by leading by example.
• Present technical concepts and solutions to internal teams to contribute to strategic discussions.

What we're looking for from you:

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of Swift and Objective-C to build high-performing iOS applications.
• Apply iOS design patterns, such as MVC, MVVM+Coordinators, and VIPER, to maintain clean architecture.
• Build views programmatically without relying on XIBs/Storyboards to ensure flexible and reusable UI components.
• Use SOLID design principles to create maintainable and scalable mobile codebases.
• Manage dependencies effectively using tools like Swift Package Manager (SPM).
• Implement unit testing with XCTest and UI automation testing with XCUITest to ensure platform stability.
• Navigate Continuous Integration (CI) systems and build automation tools like Fastlane to streamline delivery.
• Share any additional knowledge of Kotlin or React Native to support our multi-platform environment.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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