Sr Software Apps Engineer - IOS

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity. About Yahoo Yahoo is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Yahoo’s Media Engineering organization uses the latest technologies to build brands our members love. Our brands include Yahoo, AOL, Engadget, TechCrunch, Autoblog, In The Know and many more. They reach hundreds of millions of users so we are focused on building everything at a massive scale. We strive to create world-class user experiences for our valued members, delivering up to the minute, trusted content and data across all of our brands. In order to support this, our teams build the best in breed tools, APIs, utilities and services using bleeding edge technologies at scale. At Yahoo Finance, we power experiences for millions of users globally every month and remain the clear leader in our category. Our systems scale to processing 5 billion market events per day from over 80 global exchanges. We are the largest business, financial information and tools app/site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights, tools and original editorial content. Under a new leadership team, we have recommitted to building and revitalizing this essential, trusted resource for investors and savers. What we are looking for We are searching for an ambitious and product-minded iOS developer to help us build the next generation of personal finance management. We need a dedicated and technically strong engineer with industry knowledge to make our apps even better and to drive the evolution and expansion of our current applications portfolio into new technology areas and market segments. If you are excited about the overall lifecycle of a product - building, coding, testing, launching and learning, this is the place to be, because you will learn and gain hands-on experience while engaged in projects with significant impact on the success of our businesses. You are an avid problem solver who has the capability to work independently as well as within a team, and the willingness to learn. The road ahead is exciting, and our team is moving fast. Your work will be seen and touched by millions of people, worldwide. If you believe you have what it takes to help shape our future then look no further, apply now, and get ready for the ride of your life! What you’ll do Write code for Yahoo Finance iOS, depending on your skills and interests you might focus on a particular part of the codebase, but you're likely to spend some time working on pieces of it all. Here are the main parts: The app and widgets are written in Swift, SwiftUI with some Objective-C The UI layer uses programmatic Auto Layout The data layer uses Codable and SwiftProtobuf to talk to the Yahoo Finance backend APIs, which also support GraphQL custom queries Unit tests use the XCTest and iOSSnapshotTestCase frameworks Yahoo Finance is available on iPhone, iPad, M1 Mac and tvOS Be responsible for the definition, design, development, plans for A/B testing and monitoring, and successful and timely completion of major new features Work with product, design and engineering team members to explore and create interesting solutions while sharing knowledge among the team Perform code reviews for your peers where you will be learning from and contributing to a collaborative working model Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and utilizing new technology to achieve goals and elevate the developer experience Tackle hard engineering and UX problems and solve them in an elegant and seamless manner Take ownership of features and areas of the app that will impact millions of users Requirements BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience Familiarity with Cocoa frameworks and proficiency in iOS development using Swift and/or Objective-C 5 to 10 years industry experience Experience creating or contributing to at least one iOS app Proven track record in software design, implementation, and troubleshooting Capable of managing time well and working efficiently and independently Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to work a hybrid model, commuting 3 days a week to an office in Bangalore Bonus points if you Have shipped an app or two to the App Store Are passionate about writing tests and making your code easy to change Are part of the iOS community in your own way, whether it’s attending WWDC/AltConf, keeping up to date with iOS Dev Weekly, contributing to iOS/Swift subreddits, or something entirely unique that you want to tell us about Have experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience Have strong interest in connecting investors to real-time financial data and personalized business news at a large scale Important notes for your attention Applications: All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo. We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications. No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process. Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you. Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct. Offer Distributions: Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails. Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. 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