Senior Consultant IT

Job Description:

Are you interesting in building apps used by people during some of the most important moments in their life? Apps that simply must work because our users are protecting their lives or processing grief from the loose of a loved one. Apps that are reinventing the traditional insurance business by striving for best in class consumer user experience. In the Mobile Center  of Excellence (MCoE), we design and develop all Guardian's native apps for Android & iOS. We also provide guidance and consulting services for any vendor developed apps our affiliates may be providing to their customers. The MCoE team is seeking a talented Senior iOS Development Manager/Architect to help design and develop apps for our supported operating systems and deliver new experiences for our customers. Join us to help bring to fruition your ideas and ours!

Responsibilities

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Skills

• At least 15+ years of engineering experience
• Proficient with Swift,  and Cocoa Touch
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools 
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools 
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Strong communication skills Passion for quality and attention to detail
• Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code
• Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using instrumentation
• Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company.

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

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