iOS Developer, Rakuten Kobo
12 month contract
Digital bookseller
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Digital bookseller
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring the power of reading to the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years building production iOS apps with Swift, including meaningful ownership of shipped features
- Strong proficiency with Swift UI, with experience building complex UI
- Solid grasp of Swift concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, cancellation, thread-safety)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desirable
- Experience with a unidirectional architecture such as The Composable Architecture (TCA) or similar patterns
- Strong functional programming fundamentals
- Previous UI Kit and Objective-C experience, although our app is fully written in Swift/Swift UI
- Experience with modularization (Swift Package Manager) and CI improvements
What the job involves
- As an iOS Developer II, you will be a critical contributor to the entire Kobo app. You will take ownership over key features and deliver them from inception to completion. We pride ourselves in a collaborative environment, and you will have input over future product direction and features
- You will be joining the iOS team within the Global Apps group. We have recently re-written our iOS app in pure Swift/Swift UI. While most of the code inside the app is new native Swift code, the app incorporates some legacy React Native components (such as the reading experience)
- There is an existing React Native team to maintain these components, with integration and support provided by the iOS team as needed
- Contribute new features to the Kobo App
- Fix issues and maintain the quality of the codebase
- Take complete ownership of features and tasks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Backend, and QA to clarify requirements, break down work, and ship iteratively
Our take
Long-form content is having a resurgence. That’s great news for the e-reader industry, of which Rakuten’s Kobo battles with Amazon’s Kindle for ownership.
The e-reader giant has changed tack in recent years to pursue growth via integrations and partnerships. A notable example is its native device integration with Pocket, a wishlist app loved by millions of readers.
The company is hoping that these partnerships and product improvements will allow it to finally break the US market where it most struggles for market share with Kindle.
Amazon has consistently shown its willingness to drop prices to protect its position in any market it plays in. That means that Kobo will have to demonstrate true product superiority to make a dent while protecting its margins.
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Company benefits
- "Work from anywhere" policy
- Flexible hours
- Internet/phone/commuting allowance
- Daily meal allowance when in the office
- $500 CAD flexible spending account
- Parental leave top-up
- Unlimited sick and mental health days
- 4-day summer holiday weekends
- RRSP matching, bonus and stock options
- Free Kobo eReader
- Free weekly book of your choice
- Volunteer time off
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Michael Tamblyn
(CEO)Part of the founding team of Kobo, Michael previously held the role of Chief Content Officer. Michael has also been the founding CEO of the supply chain agency, BookNet Canada and co-founded Canada’s first online bookstore, Bookshelf.ca, purchased by Indigo Books & Music in 1998.
Anna Giagkou
(CFO)Prior to joining Rakuten Kobo in 2021, Anna was the CFO of Cox Automotive Canada.
Nimod Narayanan
(CTO)Nimod joined Rakuten Kobo in 2022 as VP of Technology, he then became the SVP of Technology in 2023, and CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent nearly 4 years at Rogers Communications joining as a Senior Development Manager before becoming a Director of eCommerce & Personalization and then Senior Director of Digital Platforms & Services.
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