Senior iOS Developer

We are seeking an experienced iOS Developer with 5–7 years of professional experience in building modern iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
The ideal candidate must have significant experience with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and a strong grasp of iOS system frameworks and app lifecycle management.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
• Implement and maintain BLE communication, handling connections, pairing, data exchange, and background operations.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code following best practices.
• Optimize applications for performance and memory usage.
• Unit testing, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews.
• Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in day-to-day delivery to accelerate development, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.
• Review, validate, and take ownership of AI-generated code, ensuring it meets quality, security, performance, and architectural standards before it is merged.
• Leverage AI to generate and improve unit, integration, and UI test cases, and to support code reviews and release notes.
• Contribute to team practices for AI-assisted delivery, including prompt patterns, reusable context or rule files, and guidelines for responsible use of AI on client code.

Required Skills:

• 5–7 years of hands-on iOS development experience.
• Expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and Foundation.
• Proven experience working with CoreBluetooth and BLE peripheral/central modes.
• Understanding of iOS app lifecycle, memory management, and background modes.
• Familiarity with MVVM and Clean Architecture in iOS development.
• Proficient in integrating RESTful APIs using URLSession or third-party libraries like Alamofire.
• Experience in managing local data using CoreData or Realm.
• Knowledge of App Store guidelines, provisioning, and deployment.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in a professional setting, with the judgement to know when to rely on AI output and when to challenge it.
• Strong prompt engineering and context-management skills to get reliable, production-quality output from AI coding tools.
• Awareness of data privacy, IP, and security considerations when using AI tools on client codebases.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to cross-platform frameworks like Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, Compose Multiplatform Mobile is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins.

 

Location:

DGS India - Bengaluru - Manyata N1 Block

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent