iOS Developer

About Us

At Showbie, we’re building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps, Showbie and Socrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a growing global team located across Canada and Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom and Norway. 

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of leading with care, seek perspectives, and being driven by purpose, guide our attitudes and actions each day.

The Role

The iOS Developer is a role focused on developing and delivering functionality for the Showbie iOS application. You will work closely with an empowered and highly collaborative team of software developers, designers, and a product manager. You’ll be responsible for developing new product features for various iOS devices and screen sizes. You’ll also be responsible for developing and building automated unit tests that enable the team to deliver high-quality software in a scalable way.

Delivering a world-class product and providing the best possible experience for teachers and students are among our highest priorities as a company. As our team and products grow, we’re looking for someone with the enthusiasm and ability to deliver high-quality products for teachers and students on any device.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new product features in Swift
• Building performant iOS functionality utilizing web services and REST APIs
• Familiarity with adaptive applications that run on iPhones and iPads and supports split-screen functionality
• Understand Xcode and iOS development application patterns.
  
• Building automated units tests for all new functionality.
• Source code best practices (Git and GitHub workflow)
  

You

You’ll need to be proficient with the following technologies and practices. We do this stuff all day long:

• 3 years developing iOS applications using Swift.
  
• Familiar with Objective-C.
• Knowledge implementing MVC and MVVM architectural patterns.
• Up to date with the latest iOS development trends.
• Motivated self-starter and passionate learner.
• Humble and teachable. We work in a very collaborative team where everyone has a voice. Asking questions and learning from each other is part of how we work.

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you! 
• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.
• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. We’re growing, but we’re a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.
• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.
• If you're in the area, we have a beautiful comfy office located in central downtown Edmonton (close to great restaurants, cafes, and public transit). Includes weekly SPUD deliveries, a kick-ass espresso machine, ping-pong and foosball, and lots of board games. 
• We offer a flexible work environment. Work from the office, or from home, or any combination of the two. Because sometimes you do your best work in your slippers.
• We value work-life balance. When we're at work we're excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going “home” (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Holidays makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.
• While we take government holidays off, if they aren't ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.
• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.  
• Extended health benefits (including eye care, massages, physiotherapy, and mental health supports) and a Health and Wellness Spending Account.
• Minimum three weeks vacation plus a week of flex time and time off during December Holidays.

Check out our Work at Showbie page to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

This role is based in: Canada with the option to work 100% remotely.

The proposed salary range for this role is: $70,000-$100,000

Don't meet all the expectations, or experience requirements listed here? Please apply anyways! We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.

Salary : $70 - $100