ios developer for public-sector services

Methods is a UK-based IT services consultancy with over £100M in revenue and more than 30 years of experience. It partners with central government departments, agencies, and private-sector clients to transform public-sector operations through people-centred, safe, and future-ready business and technical solutions.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality iOS applications using Swift;
• Translate user and business requirements into reliable, maintainable technical solutions;
• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code following modern iOS development practices;
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA professionals, and developers within an agile multidisciplinary team;
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decision-making;
• Develop automated tests and contribute to continuous integration and delivery processes;
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, defects, and performance problems;
• Consider security, accessibility, privacy, resilience, and performance throughout the development lifecycle;
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team;
• Help establish and maintain development standards, patterns, and best practices;
• Keep up to date with developments in the Apple and wider mobile technology ecosystem;
• Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture and support colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing where appropriate.

• Strong commercial experience developing applications for iOS;
• Strong proficiency in Swift;
• Good understanding of the iOS SDK and Apple development ecosystem;
• Experience developing applications using modern iOS development patterns and practices;
• Experience working with APIs and integrating mobile applications with backend services;
• Experience with automated testing, including unit and UI testing;
• Experience using Git and modern software development workflows;
• Understanding of software engineering principles, including clean code, modularity, maintainability, and version control;
• Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects and performance issues;
• Nice to have: Experience with Objective-C and maintaining or modernising existing Objective-C codebases, experience with SwiftUI and/or UIKit, asynchronous programming and concurrency in Swift, knowledge of iOS application architecture and design patterns, CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment processes, cloud-based services and RESTful APIs, mobile application security and data protection principles, accessible application development, analytics, monitoring, and application performance tools.

• Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience;
• Opportunity to work on projects making a difference in society;
• Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership;
• Supportive and collaborative environment;
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme, and training;
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme;
• Social activities including Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays, monthly Pizza Thursdays, and charitable initiatives;
• 25 Days off per year;
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution;
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary;
• Non-contributory Private Medical Insurance, including spouse and dependants;
• Non-contributory Worldwide Travel Insurance, including spouse and dependants.