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This position is remote within the United States. You must have U.S. citizenship or a valid U.S. work permit to apply for this role.
Role summary
You will design, build, and maintain native iOS applications that deliver eBooks and audio content to public libraries and their patrons worldwide. This role focuses on creating high-quality mobile experiences while collaborating with backend and platform teams to ensure reliable content ingestion, delivery, and performance at scale.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain native iOS applications serving digital content to library users.
Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to translate requirements into scalable mobile solutions.
Analyze and improve existing mobile applications to enhance performance, reliability, and user experience.
Support content delivery workflows that ingest and distribute eBooks and audio to mobile platforms.
Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical design sessions.
Ensure mobile applications meet quality, security, and performance standards.
Contribute to documentation of mobile architectures, APIs, and development practices.
Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team building tools for libraries and librarians.
Support mobile application releases and ongoing maintenance across supported devices.
Requirements – Must-haves
7–10+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong expertise in native iOS development (Swift / Objective-C).
Experience developing applications for iOS mobile platforms, including Amazon mobile devices.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, performance optimization, and testing.
Ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional engineering teams.
Nice-to-haves (optional)
Experience contributing to full stack development, including backend APIs.
Ability to write and optimize SQL queries.
Experience working with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
Familiarity with content delivery, media streaming, or digital publishing platforms.
Experience supporting high-availability or content-heavy applications.
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