Mobile Developer, Purple
£50-60k
+ Company bonus - 5% of salary
Indoor location services platform
Be an early applicant
Indoor location services platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£50-60k
+ Company bonus - 5% of salary
101-200 employees
Company mission
Purple is on a mission to make sure physical spaces thrive.
Role
Who you are
- We value adaptable candidates who can quickly learn new technologies and languages. While core mobile development proficiency is helpful, confidence in rapidly acquiring new skills is key
- Our successful candidate is comfortable shipping code quickly, gathering feedback, owning your work, and iterating to improve the product. You have a "get it done" attitude and are always looking for ways to deliver value to users faster
- Excellent knowledge and experience of at least one of Swift for iOS or Kotlin for Android, with at least a good comfort level in the other language / platform
- Good knowledge of Swift UI and Jetpack compose
- Good knowledge of Core Data (iOS) and RoomDB / SQLite (Android)
- Experience creating SDKs, and working with CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager (iOS), and Gradle (Android)
- Experience using web APIs in a robust and reliable way, failing gracefully when the APIs aren't available
- Good knowledge of mobile design patterns software architecture, with particular attention given to scalability and performance
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Exceptional mobile UX engineering skills with the ability to take a UX / UI vision from the design team and make it a reality
- Exceptional attention to detail when it comes to testing your own work, with QA serving as a back-stop and for you to expect QA to find a minimal number of issues
- Proficient debugging skills to quickly diagnose issues with mobile applications
- Comfortable working with legacy code
Desirable
- Experience using Firebase, particularly for push notifications
- Experience of creating bindings to other languages such as C and Rust
- Knowledge of networking and WiFi, especially captive portals
- Experience working with Google maps in mobile applications
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for delivering high quality mobile applications that our customers and end users love. This may involve building brand new mobile applications from the ground up or adding new features to existing mobile applications
- Collaborating with the product and engineering teams to design and implement robust and scalable software solutions that meet business requirements
- Hands-on coding, debugging, and troubleshooting of complex software components
- Ensure code quality through code reviews, pair programming, and implementation of best practices
- Planning, prioritising, and managing development tasks, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope
- Collaborating with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Ensuring the development of high quality, maintainable, and performant mobile applications
Our take
As multi-store businesses look to digitise their brick-and-mortar operations, they can run into difficulties providing wayfinding services to customers, or managing dispersed real-world assets. Purple AI helps these businesses to improve store connectivity, with location services such as in-store customer WiFi provision, wayfinding and asset tracking solutions.
Of particular note, Purple has worked with a number of hospitals to meet the complex connectivity and asset management needs of employees and patients. Boasting the ability to provide wayfinding solutions for these facilities - in which patients and visitors navigate multiple floors to reach the right ward - showcases the utility of Purple's suite.
Alongside its wide net of hospital clients, Purple provides WiFi solutions for the likes of McDonald’s, Pizza Express, and the Hard Rock Cafe - a lofty client list in terms of brand popularity. As location services become more important across the board, the company will likely have the chance to build on this established presence even further.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2023
$13.9m
LATE VC
Jun 2017
$0.4m
GRANT
Total funding: $22.4m
Company benefits
- Remote first business - work from home (with regular opportunities to get together face to face)
- Flexible working & a great company culture - bring your best self to work
- Emphasis on learning and development - progress your career
- 23 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with 1 more day each year - and the option to buy extra days
- 4 volunteering days each year - give something back to the community
- Company bonus - 5% of salary
- Private Healthcare & Long Term Incentive Plan after 12 months’ service
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
Leadership
Gavin Whedon
(CEO)Currently Non-Executive Director at Syrenis. Previously Founder and CEO at Applied Language Solutions, and Strategic Accounts Director at thebigword.
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