About Dash

Dash is on a mission to build the best-in-class unified alternative payment network for over 1 billion Africans. The financial services application allows its users to send seamlessly, and pay for goods regardless of currency and provider.

Dash is looking for a Senior IOS Engineer to be based in the Kenyan Office

What you’ll do

• Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform.
• Ensure high performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Design and execute user-facing features for applications on iOS devices by leveraging mobile operating system frameworks for multi-threading, persisting data, and managing user experience and graphics across multiple screen sizes.
• Leverage cutting edge technologies and libraries suggested by Apple for building responsive native apps for iOS.
• Improve the stability of the app by ensuring that unit tests are robust, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Manage and resolve bugs issues faced by users
• make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Produce high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wise critical programs.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
• Implement various business requirements and improve app features to deliver customer satisfaction.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or related discipline
• Minimum of five (5) years’ relevant working experience in IOS development
  
• Proficient in Swift (UIKit & SwiftUI), with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
• Extensive programming experience in Java, Objective-C and/or C++.
• Experience with Cocoa APIs and familiar with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services
• Expansive technical knowledge and experience with iOS application development.
• Deep foundation in computer science with a strong understanding in data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience developing multi-tier scalable and user-centric reliable applications that operate 24x7.
• Knowledge of UI and animation frameworks, touch user interface, and MVP application design.
• Experience with relational databases (transactional and non-transactional), database architecture, data stores and distributed transaction management.
• Experience building services for information delivery from server to mobile clients working with relevant tools (IDEs, ant, junit, etc.).
• Strong object-oriented skills including design, coding, and testing patterns.
• Good knowledge of performance limits and characteristics and proficient in continuous integration
• Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

What you'll get

• Competitive Pay
• Comprehensive Medical cover
• Pension benefit

We are an equal-opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who desire to support our vision; now is a great time to join Dash!