Lead iOS Developer

Role: Lead IOS Developer

Office: London

Hybrid, 2 days a week

About Us:

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing – the way fans spend their money, the events that fans attend, the channels fans respond to, the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are almost 1000 people, based out of 14 offices, and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

Job Role:

As a part of our ongoing growth, we are expanding our software engineering capability and looking for an experienced Senior IOS Engineer to join our London office and lead from the front in the technical design, setup, and implementation of digital products and solutions for our clients.

You will play a pivotal role in the establishment of cross functional engineering practices, tooling and culture as the team is established and continues to grow.

You will have a proven track record of delivering best-in-class digital products whilst solving complex engineering problems. We are looking for a team player who is able to mentor and upskill other engineers whilst setting the bar for best practise.

If this sounds like you, then let's talk!

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

● Work closely with Engineering Managers, Engineering Leads and Product Managers to understand problems and define technical scope for global sports properties.

● You will be hands on, building and delivering end-to-end solutions for clients whilst encompassing and establishing best practices in coding standards.

● Leading and influencing the design of software architecture both in house and alongside clients.

● Drive technical excellence and advocate for clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

● Establish and maintain coding standards, development practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

● You will be active in the hiring of other Software Engineers whilst helping refine and improve the process.

● Being an advocate for developer experience and a keen interest in continually improving it.

● Encouraging a blameless culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

● This is a hybrid role where you are expected to be in our London office for 2 days a week and occasionally travel to client offices in London and EMEA.

Your Skills

What we are looking for:

● A minimum of 5+ years experience in IOS development including experience in technical leadership or as a senior/lead engineer.

● A high level of proficiency and understanding in Swift.

● Strong architectural knowledge (eg MVVM-C, SOLID principles, TCA, reactive programming, dependency injection) and passionate about writing clean, modular and testable code using packages.

● A passion for delivering high quality UI/UX that scales to all screen sizes using SwiftUI / UIKit.

● Verse in package management with SPM and CocoaPods.

● Experience in a CI / CD environment where you have utilised tools such as Bitrise, Circle CI, GitHub actions or Azure DevOps etc.

● Experience in agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation via various methods such as unit, integration, contract and E2E testing.

● You have experience in monitoring the performance and analytics of your applications with tools like Firebase, Sentry, Mix Panel, Google Analytics etc.

● A strong desire and advocate for performant applications.

● A flair for simplicity when problem solving.

● Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences to explain your solutions and collaborate effectively with others.

Nice To Have:

● Experience building / integrating modules using KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform

Mobile) into your projects.

● Experience working in an agency environment.

● Experience working in a startup.

● A degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

● A keen interest in sport and sports business’.

Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal

opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment

without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual

orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.