iOS-TVOS Developer (Mid – Senior)

About the Role:

We are looking for iOS-TVOS Developers to join our team on a long-term (permanent) basis, as we embark on an exciting new project to develop new TVOS streaming in the end-to-end OTT platform space. If you are looking for exposure to the top brands in the OTT industry, then Ovyo might be the best place for you! You will have excellent communications skills, have worked in an Agile environment, and have good experience collaborating with distributed teams on a similar iOS-TVOS development project (this is a must).

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of technical architecture, coding, and development standards
• Produce high quality, re-usable code, and ensure best practices are followed by the team you lead
• Create new and enhance existing features and code according to requirements
• Take the lead in Sprint Planning and Retrospective sessions
• Work closely with the product management team to produce accurate estimates and clarification
• Ensure the production of design artifacts, as well as the creation of accurate documentation

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience (Mid-level Developer), 5+ years’ experience (Senior level Developer) on an iOS-TVOS project
• Excellent knowledge of the Swift programming language, and ideally also Swift UI
• Good knowledge of several commonly used Apple frameworks like, Foundation, UIKit, AV Foundation, Store Kit, XCTest and more
• Awareness about commonly used architecture patterns, concepts, and best practices such as MVC, MVVM, asynchronous code patterns, delegation, KVC, singletons
• Proficiency in use of commonly used tools, such as XCode, git, at least one of dependency management tools, Charles, GitHub, Atlassian tools
• Experience in working with APIs exposed using RESTful web services (JSON parsing/serialising, network communication, error handling etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of Apple App submission
• Experience of in-app purchases
• Experience with video playback in mobile/web applications, video production, audio/video encoding and transmuxing
• Experience with the creation of frameworks/libraries to be embedded in other apps
• Knowledge of common debug and optimization techniques in mobile programming
• Knowledge of common usability principles related to mobile programming
• Excellent communication skills

About Ovyo
Ovyo works globally with companies in the TV & Media industries including some of the top household brands. Our people build the platforms that shape the way the world watches video and connects, working on a mix of long-term customer engagements and shorter consulting projects, quickly fast tracking their experience within the industry, and their career. We are a modern, dynamic company with some of the best OTT Engineers out there, and we focus on being a great place to work. Most of our technical teams are based in India and South Africa but we also have people in the UK (where our management office is) and Europe.