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About the Role

• Seeking a motivated, driven and hard-working, mobile iOS developer. It requires 5+ years of experience developing mobile iOS apps, good knowledge of network protocols like HTTP/S and Bluetooth and experience publishing apps on Apple’s AppStore. Very good knowledge and solid background on the iOS platform, ecosystem, APIs, services, features, packages, frameworks and networking technologies are expected. This includes good knowledge of low level APIs.The successful candidate will be required to engage and interact with several areas within Nielsen including QA teams, Backend processing systems, Operations, product owners, Product managers and business partners from around the world. This position is expected to bring industry best practices in areas such as source control, code review, automated unit test to name a few, to the team

Responsibilities

• Design and develop code for Nielsen’s iOS mobile digital and audio measurement applications

• Help drive alignment between different teams and different mobile apps

• Implement best practices across a team of developers and testers

• Deliver efficient, quality software, excellent mobile performance and experience for our mobile app users

• Drive mobile development and mentor junior team members

• Stay on top of technology change, able to assess impact, able to offer solutions and innovate in the mobile measurement space

• Deploy to Apple AppStore and monitor the Store stats for application health

• Production support for the existing apps in the Store

Key skills

• Should be a solid iOS developer with minimum 5 years’ experience in designing and implementing

• solutions for mobile iOS devices (iPhones, iPads)

• Excellent native iOS development experience

• Excellent knowledge of Swift programming. Obj C is a plus

• Very good knowledge and exposure to iOS networking APIs, specifically HTTP/S

• Experience working with on-device Bluetooth protocols using the corresponding iOS APIs and services is strongly desired

• Experience working with on-device VPN protocols using the corresponding iOS APIs and

• services is a plus

• Proven experience working with different type of extensions (like notification, app extension, network extensions, etc.,)

• Experience with Carthage, Cocoa pods, Swift package manager is a MUST

• Experience working with Audio/Video recording in the background

• Understanding of Native and Web communications using JavaScript

• Experience with using Instrumentation and Profiling tools provided by XCode

• Experience working with CoreData or Room DB

• Good knowledge on memory management for mobile applications

• Proven record on mobile performance optimization

• Understanding of IPv4/IPv6, UDP/TCP packets and sockets is a plus

• Any prior experience with ReactJS is a plus

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GITLab)

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment and ceremonies

• Good knowledge of JSON formats and parsers

• Experience integrating 3rd party SDKs (e.g. Firebase)

• Should have the ability to work independently and be a self-starter, always under the direction and support provided by the manager

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Commitment to excellence, accepting responsibility and accountability for results

• Flexible to attempt alternate solutions to resolve issues and able adjust to a dynamic, changing technical and business environment