iOS Developer

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Schwab has been doing in-house, native mobile development for several years but every business channel in Schwab is increasing their presence on the mobile platform. We are looking to grow a high performing, engaged mobile development team that is passionate about delivering an excellent mobile experience for our users. From push notifications and checking account balances to a complex trading experience, Schwab’s ever growing mobile user base is asking for more features, interesting visualizations and intuitive interactions. Come join our high-performing team and make your mark on a highly distributed, visible and valued product.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Build and support mobile applications and prepare documentation per Schwab mobile best practices
• Create and perform unit testing for the spectrum of mobile devices
• Support the mobile systems in production, troubleshoot and resolve technical problems.
• Be available for evenings/weekends on-call support, as needed, being on a rotational basis with team
• Expand your knowledge in mobile languages like Swift/Swift UI and ramp up on new technology and tooling
• Stay on top of iOS framework & Swift updates, XCode version and related SDK upgrades
• Develop compelling user experiences while meeting the needs of the mobile users
• Engage with Product teams for innovating new features while maintaining Schwab development standards
• Solve highly complex problems, identify viable options, and use analytical skills and judgment to recommend appropriate solutions
• Propose solutions to improve efficiency based on thorough understanding of functional and business priorities
• Implement (along with team) standardized logging and monitoring frameworks and proactively drive defensive programming efforts
• Deliver assignments on time

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of native iOS development, including working experience in Swift, Combine, UIKit and Swift UI
• Experience writing Unit Tests as well as Automated UI tests using XCode framework & Appium
• Experience integrating with REST APIs
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline and debugging issues that may arise
• Experience debugging memory and performance issues
• Experience working with design patterns that leverage dependency injections (DI)
• Experience working with native accessibility features such as VoiceOver and Dynamic Type
• Exposure to updating apps to comply with Apple's iOS and Swift version upgrades
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Reactive architecture
• Experience with iterative development methodologies such as TDD and BDD
• Understand modern design patterns and industry standard best practices
• Exhibit great interpersonal skills to thrive in a distributed enterprise grade environment
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Understands scaling, performance and availability concerns.
• Understand the importance of gaining consensus and how to persuade others based on expertise
• Be comfortable with problem-solving even with faced with ambiguous or incomplete data
• Exercise good judgement in analyzing and sequencing work for delivery every sprint and every quarter
• Able to identify stakeholders, asses their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.