iOS App Developer, Vira Health
£60-80k
Prescription digital therapeutics for menopause
Job no longer available
Prescription digital therapeutics for menopause
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-80k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Vira Health is on a mission to make personalised menopause care the norm, delivering immediate relief as well as reducing the long-term impact of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and dementia.
Role
Who you are
- Experience architecting complex apps (ideally B2C)
- Experience working as an app developer within a high volume startup or established business
- Experience developing apps using a combination of Objective-C, Swift, UIKit and HTML5 (with apps in the app store to demonstrate this)
- Experience with developing for optimal off-line behaviour/caching, dealing with poor network connectivity gracefully, etc
- Experience building complex, innovative UIs in apps
- A solid understanding of HTTP/S networking (allowing you to gain app store approval by using the required networking standards)
- Be passionate about ensuring the quality of our iOS app
- Experience with integrating analytics logic into your apps, to allow for measurement of success/usage
- Excellent attention to detail both in interpreting the UI design and the quality of your code
- A self starter and motivated to find and play your role in the team to deliver on the product’s objectives
What the job involves
- Develop our core ‘Stella’ iOS consumer facing application using Swift, UIkit and HTML5
- Take a leading role in the evolution of our iOS app by working closely with the product team designing the app to use your knowledge of the technical possibilities to influence how the product evolves
- Take responsibility for app store submission of updates, and bug fixes
- Understand and leverage appropriate code testing strategies (unit, integration, component, end-to-end, etc…) to ensure that everything you release is of the highest quality
Application process
- We’re looking for an iOS App Developer to work with our teams based in London (mostly remote working for the time being) and to lead our transition from agency design to in-house. You’ll work closely with a smart, collaborative team of the company’s two founders, product management, designers, and other engineers to use your development skills to evolve our flagship iOS app - ‘Stella’
- As this is an app development role in a startup, it’s important that you are just as happy architecting the structure of apps as you are getting stuck in and writing code and that you are happy in an environment that values the team over job titles
- You will primarily need deep knowledge in building applications for iOS, but also ideally possess good experience with other web languages (JavaScript, PHP, etc), and be able to demonstrate at least one iOS app that you have developed that is available in the app store
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Female health has been historically under-resourced and overlooked and the results are staggering. Women are 2 times more likely to die of a heart attack. They have a 1.7 times higher risk of having an adverse drug reaction. Across brain cancer, chronic pain, endometriosis and dementia there is evidence of misdiagnosis of women.
This is all the product of a massive data gap – there is so much we do not know about women’s health. Vira and its team are one of the few tackling this gap. The company's initial focus is on menopause and its associated treatments through a mobile app called Stella. Vira makes a compelling justification for facing menopause head-on before branching out into other fem-health spaces.
The founding team has highly relevant experience and is well-placed to tackle female health. Alongside its product, Vira has managed to grow a community and provides tips, Q&A's, and virtual events to create a holistic approach to addressing female health which its users will not find anywhere else. Although its app has only recently found footing in the UK & Ireland, Vira is now available in the US market. Now flush with 2022 funding, the company can properly establish its product in these regions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$2.1m
SEED
Total funding: $14.1m
Company benefits
- A commitment to adapting how we work to fit a variety of new and existing needs; we are remote first so flexibility is really important to us
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Vitality Health Insurance, including mental health and physiotherapists as well as telemedicine consultations (UK only)
- Your choice of tech equipment - whatever you need to get the job done
- Wednesday yoga with the team
- Enrolment in Vira Pension scheme (UK only)
- An environment where your personal development is really important
- Eyecare vouchers
- £250 to set up your home office if working remotely
- Cycle to Work scheme (UK only)
Company HQ
Highbury, London, UK
Leadership
Andrea Berchowitz
(Co-founder)10+ year McKinsey Consultant, ex-leader of Gates Foundation in Middle East, long-time advocate for better women’s health
Rebecca Love
(Co-founder)Medical Sciences PhD (Cambridge), chronic disease expert, trained epidemiologist, worked with Mayor of London, World Health Organisation and UNICEF
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