iOS Mobile Engineer

at  Freetrade

We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives to help us on our mission to demystify investing. Our goal is to help our customers achieve better long-term financial outcomes.
In 2024, we’ll be focusing on making our business cash flow profitable. We’ll also be radically improving our product for our core customer base. In the UK, we now have over 1.6 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.
The Freetrade iOS mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU.
We are looking for an iOS Mobile Engineer to join our team at Freetrade.
The role requires someone with a good understanding of the iOS mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside experienced and knowledgeable engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities.
You will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will:

• Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade iOS app. Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features.
• Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
• Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues

You have:

• Typically around 2-3 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
• Strong ability to problem solve and passionate about improving your skills and knowledge
• Good knowledge of Swift
• Good understanding of iOS frameworks, with either UIKit or SwiftUI
• Familiarity with using APIs to connect iOS applications to backend services.
• Started to develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines
• Working understanding of using code versioning tools (such as Git).
• Appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).

Benefits & Logistics
The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager, technical interview (pair programming exercise and separate open discussion on mobile architecture), concluding with a cultural and behavioural interview.
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options and cafeteria.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
We currently are in the process of setting up our Hungarian benefits package.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We’re very open about what we’re working on, and the best places
About Freetrade
Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.

Please refer the Job description for details