Mobile Engineer (iOS)

Blue Light Card Ltd; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading membership organization in the UK is seeking a Mobile Engineer (iOS) to join their core tech team focused on replatforming their app. The role offers opportunities for building high-quality applications and collaborating with a dynamic team. Required skills include proficiency in Swift, strong testing experience, and familiarity with cloud services. This position provides hybrid working and a vibrant company culture.

Benefits

Hybrid working and flexible hours

Company bonus scheme

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and sick pay

Onsite gym with free classes

Company-funded private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, strong experience in UIKit and Swift packages.
• Robust testing experience with XCTest, TestFlight, and Appium.
• Experience with cloud services and serverless deployment on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build mobile applications with clear, maintainable, and testable code.
• Collaborate on solution design meeting functional and architectural standards.
• Implement and maintain unit tests and diagnose and fix bugs.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

XCTest

TestFlight

GitHub

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile

AWS

Tools

GitHub Actions

Amplitude

Braze

Firebase Crashlytics

Stripe

Job description

Blue Light Card—Mobile Engineer (iOS)

The core tech team at Blue Light Card is embarking on a new chapter of replatforming to a modern, serverless environment. This open role brings you the opportunity to join early on, shape our app experience with fresh ideas, and impact the lives of millions of members.

The Role and the Team

We’re looking for an iOS developer passionate about creating intuitive, high‑quality iOS applications, highly readable code, and a collaborative mobile community of practice to share knowledge across the wider Blue Light Card team.

What You’ll Do

• Build mobile applications with clear, maintainable, and testable code.
• Collaborate on solution design meeting functional and non‑functional requirements and Blue Light Card architectural standards.
• Write clean code, participate in code reviews, and uphold coding standards and best practices.
• Work with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to define and deliver features aligned with product vision.
• Implement and maintain unit tests and UI tests; diagnose and fix bugs or performance bottlenecks.
• Support automated build, test, and deployment pipelines for rapid release cycles.
• Document technical requirements, specifications, and design decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• Proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI, strong experience in UIKit and Swift packages.
• Robust testing experience with XCTest, TestFlight, and Appium.
• GitHub source control and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) for shared business logic.
• Familiarity with Amplitude, Braze, Firebase Crashlytics, and Stripe.
• Experience with cloud services, serverless deployment on AWS, and XCCloud distribution.
• Excellent communication skills, mentoring ability, and a continuous learning mindset.

Our Culture

Our members, partners and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. We foster a hybrid, flexible environment with a focus on wellbeing, inclusivity, and fun. We’re proud to be recognised as a Top 100 Great Place To Work UK and an Investor in People.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working and flexible hours.
• Free parking and EV charging onsite.
• 25 days plus public holidays, buy‑and‑sell scheme, and a birthday day off.
• Company bonus scheme.
• Social events: Christmas party, family fun day, summer party, sports matches.
• Relaxed dress code and modern office space with games, chill‑out areas, book club, refreshments.
• Onsite gym with free HIIT & stretch classes.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Group auto‑enrolment pension plan.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and sick pay.
• Company‑funded private medical insurance.
• Healthcare cashback plan.
• Employee assistance programme, including mental health support.
• 35‑hour working week.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industry: Software Development