Lead Engineer - I_iOS Development

Responsibilities

• Design, development, and support of various Clinical System Applications.
• Work with Business Analysts to review and understand business requirements and functional specifications.
• Collaborate with middle-tier and database developers.
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Work with QA and CM teams for code build/releases, test case design, and defect resolution.
• Collaborate as Team Lead/Project Manager/Architect for planning, estimation, documentation, and status reporting.
• Mentor junior developers on design and development.
• Maintain excellent communication skills.
• Adapt and contribute to a fast-paced, agile application development environment.
• Adhere to project schedules, proactively resolving or escalating issues to management.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.

Skills

• Mandatory Skills:
  • Min 8+ years of experience in iOS and Android mobile application development, including architecting and developing multiple applications across versions.
  • Proficient in Swift for iOS development and Kotlin for Android, with deep understanding of language features and best practices for both platforms.
  • Strong understanding of iOS UI guidelines (Human Interface Guidelines) and Android UI guidelines (Material Design), ensuring apps meet platform-specific design principles.
  • Experienced in implementing native libraries using the iOS SDK and Android SDK, including working with frameworks like UIKit, Core Data, Core Animation, and Jetpack components.
  • Experienced in using storage options such as UserDefaults, Core Data, SQLite (iOS) and Shared Preferences, Room, SQLite (Android) for local data management.
  • Experienced in integrating RESTful web services, handling JSON and XML parsing, and managing network requests with URLSession (iOS) and Retrofit, OkHttp (Android).
  • Expertise in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and architecting scalable mobile applications using patterns like MVC, MVVM, MVP, and VIPER for iOS, and MVVM, MVP for Android.
  • Experience in unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development (TDD) for both iOS (using XCTest) and Android (using JUnit, Espresso).
  • Solid experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality applications on time.
  • Proficient in debugging and optimizing apps for performance, including memory and CPU usage, on both iOS (using Instruments in Xcode) and Android (using Android Profiler).
• Good to have skills:
  • Ability To Define architectural intent that agents can follow
  • Break features into agent executable tasks
  • Govern AI autonomy (guardrails, permissions, reviews)
  • Integrate agentic workflows into CI/CD pipelines

Core Responsibility

• Guide effective use of agentic IDEs for complex, multi-module or cross-service changes.
• Establish review practices and quality checks for AI-generated code.
• Mentor team members on balancing autonomy, correctness, and maintainability in AI-assisted development.
• Design system architectures that support AI-augmented and agentic development workflows.
• Define guardrails, standards, and governance for the use of autonomous coding agents.
• Evaluate impact of agentic IDEs on SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, security posture, and technical debt.