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Software Development Engineer - iOS - Eurosport

Discovery

London, United Kingdom 03-28-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
Overview
Over 30 years, Eurosport has established itself as a household name for sports. Now, Discovery has re-energized Eurosport and is investing heavily in ways that connect fans to the sports they love.

Eurosport combines expertise, passion, and exclusive sports rights to offer high-value programs and unrivaled coverage to viewers and customers in 99 countries and in 21 languages. Having established itself as the exclusive Home of the Olympic Games in Europe through 2024, there's no better time than now to join Eurosport on this incredible adventure! Core to Eurosport's strategy for engaging sports audiences is creating intuitive, innovative, and delightful digital products. This role is instrumental to delivering against our digital strategy.

We're looking for a talented and experienced Senior iOS Engineer to help lead the Eurosport iOS team and drive the evolution of our application. You will work cross-functionally and collaborate effectively with Product, Design, Backend, Android, and Front-End teams to ensure we consistently deliver a best-in-class experience.

Responsibilities
• Ownership of app architecture, performance, and stability
• Lead and mentor the iOS development team
• Deeply involved with the Product team for all the product evolution to provide feasibility, high-level estimate and technical inputs
• Key point of contact for other Eurosport technical teams (Backend, Web, and Android) and provide iOS team inputs and technical requirements as required
• Partner with iOS development team to stay informed of new technologies being introduced by Apple and share the developments with the Product team

Qualifications
• 4+ years experience as an iOS Developer (Focus on Swift, but experienced with Objective-C, xCode)
• Deep knowledge of mobile application architecture, MVVM-C, Cocoa design patterns, and concepts such as delegation, protocols and categories. Experience building microservices is highly desirable
• Great knowledge of Cocoapods
• Great experience in building apps consuming REST or GraphQL api
• Experience with iOS frameworks such as AVFoundation, UIKit, etc
• Experience with automated deployments (CI/CD), TestFlight/Adhoc and Appstore distribution process
• Excellent knowledge of design patterns
• Highly skilled in the use of git source code control‬‬‬‬‬‬‬.‬ ‬‬‬‬‬
• Experience in Device Management.
• Strong working knowledge of beta testing services.
• Experience working as part of an enterprise IT team, interfacing with developers, designers, web engineers, and external agencies or partners.
• Experience in an Agile & Scrum methodologies
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Exceptional ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
• Excellent systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Strong ability to train and teach others.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
• Exceptional ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
• A lot of our development team are based in France, French language speaking is a huge bonus but not essential

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvkxkw-18-224-63-87-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Discovery

Discovery, Inc. is the global leader in real life entertainment. We serve passionate fans with content that inspires, informs, and entertains, providing leadership across deeply loved and trusted brands, such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel.