Sr. iOS Engineer
VF Corporation outfits consumers around the world with its diverse portfolio of iconic lifestyle brands, including Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland®, and Dickies®. Founded in 1899, VF is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies with socially and environmentally responsible operations spanning numerous geographies, product categories and distribution channels. We’re committed to delivering innovative products to consumers and creating long-term value for our customers and shareholders.
We are a purpose-led company that seeks not only to succeed in business, but also to leverage our success and resources to make the world better. Through our brands and nearly 70,000 associates around the world, we power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. We are movement makers. It’s who we are and have always been.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
VF Corporation is searching for a motivated and results-oriented Sr. iOS Engineer to play a critical role in developing and maturing our mobile portfolio.
The VF mobile team develops eCommerce mobile apps for our exciting brands: Vans, The North Face, Timberland, Icebreaker, Altra, Eagle Creek, Napapijri, Eastpak, Kipling, Smartwool, Jansport, and Workwear segment.
A successful candidate will collaborate with other technical experts, lead architecture design, and identify/implement reusable mobile framework components. Moreover, this individual will play a critical role in technology selection, establishing best practices and bringing engineering excellence and innovation to VF mobile app development.
PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define, design and deliver mobile products for our brands
Lead architecture design, implementation, maintenance and support of the mobile apps
Effectively communicate a technical vision for product requirements and establish a connection between the product roadmap and development iterations and releases
Work with the Product Managers to define KPIs in order to measure and monitor implementation progress and value, as well as ongoing maintenance and support of products in the mobile portfolio
Work closely with the UX/UI design teams to implement and refine user interfaces
Ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience across different iOS devices
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the iOS development team
Mentor and coach junior team members
Ensure measurable performance, quality and responsiveness of the mobile applications
Lead and participate in best practices: CI/CD, code standards, code reviews, testing automation, unit test and more
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices
Recommend and implement improvement to the mobile framework, development processes and tools
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent work experience
5+ years of hands-on experience with native iOS application development
Proficient in Swift, SwiftUI and iOS SDK
Experience with Combine and CoreData
Experience in background tasks and concurrency management
Experience with mobile architectural patterns (MVVM, MVP)
Strong advocate for software best practices, and Clean coding principles
Experience with cross-functional teams in an Agile scrum environment
Experience with JIRA/Confluence or similar tracking tools
Success in scaling mobile products globally
Experience implementing mobile app analytics solutions
Experience with CI/CD, and version control, preferably Git
Experience with Firebase
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Experience with the full mobile development life cycle
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Contributions to open-source projects or a strong presence on GitHub
Experience implementing Dependency Injection patterns
Experience with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native
Experience building commerce apps
Experience building white-label apps to be scaled cross-brands
Experience with RESTful APIs and AWS
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