iOS Engineer - remote

Posted 3 years ago
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Team: Engineering &Data –Team Taco

Main Location: Barcelona or anywhere in Spain

Remote Policy: Fully remote with your main location being in Spain

Team: Engineering &Data

Contract: Full Time

Hours: Flexible up, to 40 hours a week

Reporting to: Hossein Toussi, Engineering Manager

Contact Person: Kinga Kostyrka, Talent Acquisition

Note from the Hiring Manager

"On the team Taco, one of our cross-functional teams, we focus on increasing engagement &satisfaction of our users through removing micro-frustrations and making the overall experience more delightful. Shipping iteratively, and celebrating our successes are two of the many things we are proud of.

We are looking for an iOS engineer to join our team, where developers (iOS, Android, Backend), Designers, a QA specialist, and a product manager collaborate closely to reach our goals."

What You'll Do

  • With a focus on feature development, you help us deliver a top-notch product affecting millions of users and revenue.
  • Contribute to our discovery and delivery process, helping product and design in addressing user needs.
  • You follow best practices in engineering to achieve a robust code base, e.g. through code reviews and unit tests.
  • Build astonishing UI that takes into consideration platform-specific design guidelines and UX best practices.
  • Take part in our test automation process, implementing reliable and maintainable tests.

Why You?

  • Have 2+ years of experience in iOS development with good programming skills in Swift
  • Shipped customer-facing apps
  • Experience with unit testing
  • Good understanding of Apple’s guidelines and most common iOS Frameworks (our stack is based on UIKit, CoreData, Operations and Queues, and AVFoundation).
  • Experience with different design patterns like MVVM, and MVC.
  • Experience with REST APIs.
  • Fluent English communication skills
  • You already live in Spain.

Why Blinkist?

At Blinkist, we don’t just accept our differences —we celebrate and support our diversity. We are committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices and want to provide equal opportunity.

Here are some of our best perks:

  • 30 vacation days
  • 4 wellbeing days (opportunity to unplug and focus on wellness) + 4 days of company-wide learning
  • Unlimited Home office
  • Monthly home office allowance: 50,-EUR
  • Learning &Development Budget
  • Spill - employee Mental Health Support
  • Access to partner Apps
  • Company events

Apply Now

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