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Full-Time Job: iOS Developer, New York, NY (Mashfeed)

Job Title: iOS Developer

Job location: New York, NY

Employer: Mashfeed

Employment Type: Full-Time Job

Job Description

Mashfeed, an innovative and fresh social media startup based in the heart of NYC, is seeking a creative and driven on-site developer to help take our brand new social media mashup app for iOS to the next level and grow with the team. If you have a passion for delivering responsive and polished mobile products with great UI and intuitive UX, we need to talk.

Innovate & Deliver. Working alongside the founder – a seasoned, creative and passionate product leader – we are in a position to develop some really amazing products that are in the hands of our users in days – not months. As a key member of the development team, you will have a great amount of influence on product strategy, with the ability to own your code and have it released and incorporated on a regular basis.

Grow with the team. We are in this for the long haul, and want you to be as well. The right candidate will most certainly have the opportunity to become an equity partner given the right fit. Given the early stage in our lifecycle, Mashfeed is planning to expand in the next few months, providing you with a unique opportunity to help shape the team as we grow.

Let’s do this! Mashfeed is a newly-launched and high-functioning app for iPhone – and it is just the beginning of the journey. Regular brainstorming sessions, rapid development cycles and metrics are what we are all about.

Time to focus. We understand that it takes a great amount of concentration to create stellar code. And thus, we urge our developers to work from home on occasion. For realz.

Time to relax. There’s a lot happening in the City That Never Sleeps. Expect to partake in a few much-needed (and much-deserved) outings along the way (e.g., concerts, bowling tourneys, dinners around town). Oh yeah – and every Friday at 4pm is Happy Hour, featuring a solid rotation of beer and tunes. We may even let you spin the playlist on occasion.

iOS Developer | Requirements:

Strong Programming Fundamentals – The candidate must be strongly grounded in object-oriented programming fundamentals. Whether you have a degree in computer science, have completed a rigorous CS minor or training program, the ability to think and code in terms of objects is crucial for success with the iOS SDK.
Strong Familiarity with the iOS SDK – Candidates will know the ins and outs of table views, and have a sophisticated understanding of delegation, MVC, and other key iOS design patterns. Fluency in objective-c is a given.
Asynchronous Programming – Our app heavily relies on the consumption of web-based APIs. Therefore, an understanding of asynchronous programming and objective-c blocks is critical.
Previous Work – At least one app on the app store – OR – substantial code for us to review.
A passion for clean and reusable code

iOS Developer | Preferred:

The candidate will be expected to do all of the following and more during his or her tenure. While experience with most, if not all, is preferred, the ability to become proficient in all of the following will be considered with enough foundational technical savvy.

Build custom, reusable view controllers, especially UITableViewController subclasses that interact seamlessly with other view controllers.
Build custom, reusable view controllers with and without UIStoryboard and XIB files.
Implement custom user interactions that require experience with lower-level frameworks like CoreGraphics (CGRect is part of Core Graphics).
Build user experiences that adhere to, and build upon the Apple Human Interface Guidelines for iOS 7.
Create and edit custom, encapsulated model code that will be used in conjunction with view controllers.
Consume and process data from and post data to social media APIs, like Instagram (REST), Facebook, and YouTube, using asynchronous, block-based programming.
Determine both appropriate architecture and suitable APIs for integrating with third-party social services.
Interact with the Parse SDK (parse.com), which manages our backend needs.
Create and use singletons to manage cross-view controller data.
Track down memory leaks, and ensure app runs efficiently.
Take advantage of the latest technologies and frameworks in Xcode 5 and iOS 7.
Handle the efficient loading and display of photos and videos retrieved from the web.
Refactor and rearchitect existing code.

Company Description:

Launched in February of 2014, Mashfeed is a simple and beautiful way to organize & discover great social media content like never before. Connect your social media accounts (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc.), and create custom feeds, or “mashfeeds,” by combining relevant users, hashtags, channels and more based on any topic you’re interested in. The combinations are simply amazing. Your mashfeeds will always include the latest posts based on the sources you’ve selected.