iOS Lead Engineer | Food EC Service

【ABOUT THE COMPANY】

Sale of safe foods and food ingredients, such as organic vegetables, specially cultivated agricultural products, and additive-free processed foods, to the general public through websites and catalogs.

In 2017, two companies merged their businesses, and in 2018, another company was added to create a group. The company is taking a leap forward in a sustainable society by providing a service that allows many people to enjoy a better diet and by creating a system that rewards and makes producers of good food proud.

The company's main business area is a value-propositioned food e-commerce business, such as meal kits that meet the needs of busy customers, such as organic and specially cultivated fresh food, processed food with minimal additives, and other products that are safe and secure. In addition, they are solving social issues related to food through our business, such as wholesale of foodstuffs to nursery schools, consulting and media business using our e-commerce know-how, and mobile supermarkets that serve as infrastructure for living in depopulated areas.

Now that the company has entered its second decade of business, it will continue to provide a better dietary life for producers and customers through new initiatives and tricks, such as strengthening the products and services of each brand, establishing a new large-scale distribution center, and building a logistics system.

【JOB DESCRIPTION 】

Service for food used by about 400,000 people | iOS Lead Engineer in pursuit of a more comfortable shopping experience

《Recruitment Background》
With the theme of solving social issues in food through technology and business, the company offers a subscription-based business model for home delivery of carefully selected food ingredients and meal kits. The company is unique in that it handles all inventory management, delivery and logistics, and e-commerce sites to connect producers and buyers.
The flagship service, Oisix, has been in operation for more than 20 years and is used by approximately 400,000 customers.
Why don't you join the team and work together to create new value and eliminate technical debt in order to deliver a better shopping experience to the customers?

■iOS app development for a business with sales of 60 billion yen
The service has both a web version and a native version (iOS and Android), of which the iOS application was released in 2015 and currently boasts annual sales of several tens of billions of yen. In addition, compared to the web version, some functions have not been implemented, and compared to the Android application, the so-called technical debt has not been resolved yet, and the iOS application has the largest room for improvement. While aiming to expand the functions that are lacking, we are also exploring ways to provide value unique to iOS applications.
*From sales results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023

《Team Structure》
They are in the process of building a new team in line with the organizational restructuring aimed at strengthening cooperation with the business side.
The mobile engineering team includes both iOS and Android engineers, who share their knowledge with each other to promote development.

《Your Role》
As mentioned above, the current team is focusing on improving the customer-oriented UI/UX while developing functions that are not yet provided in the iOS application. They are also working to improve quality through refactoring, such as applying a VIPER-based architecture to the code base that has been accumulated over the past 10 years in order to increase productivity.

You will be mainly responsible for the following tasks
・Developing new features and optimizing UI/UX in collaboration with other departments from planning to development
・Refactoring and process improvement to create high-quality, easy-to-maintain iOS apps
・Optimization of iOS app performance and memory management
・Ongoing code reviews for bug fixes and performance improvements
・Evaluation and implementation of new technologies
・Creation and proposal of documentation related to the above

《Technical environment》
・Swift
・UIKit (partially StoryBoard)
・Swift Package Manager
・Xcode, GitHub, Bitrise, GitHub Actions, fastlane

《Career Path》
First, you will be expected to expand the scope of your role as an iOS App Engineer for Oisix. In the future, you will develop your expertise as an app engineer and lead the development of smartphone apps for Oisix La Daichi's various services.

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【Welfare】
Full social insurance
Commuting allowance
Medical checkup
Remote work and shortened hours on request
　※Many mommy and daddy employees also work there.
Sidelines OK
Clothing optional
Employee discounts are available
Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
※Depending on the situation, you may be required to work either Saturday or Sunday, but you will be asked to take a day off.
There is a space for napping
Free space (free to use for lunch and rest)

【Holidays】
Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
Annual Paid Leave
New Year Holiday
Parental Leave
Nursing Care Leave
Congratulations & Condolence Leave

【Required】
・Experience developing native iOS apps using Swift (3 years)
・Experience in leading iOS application development teams
・Knowledge of architectures related to iOS applications such as VIPER and Clean Archtecture
・Deep knowledge of major iOS frameworks including UIKit

【Preferred】
・Proposal of iOS-like development considering HIG
・Experience working in an agile development process
・Experience in performance improvement
・Experience in continuous product improvement based on user feedback such as behavior logs and interviews
・Experience in technical public relations roles (conference presentations, blogs, and other output)
・Experience in SwiftUI implementation
・Experience with cross-platform technology

【Ideal Applicants】
・Empathy with the company's corporate philosophy and the Oisix philosophy
・Teamwork oriented and able to work tenaciously with others to achieve the mission.
・Able to organize/define requirements and make proposals on your own
・Able to work with a customer perspective and a business growth perspective