Associate iOS Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Top Hat is revolutionizing higher education by providing a leading teaching platform that empowers professors to create active learning environments. Our platform transforms student smartphones and laptops into tools for engagement, leading to increased attendance, higher grades, and more effective lectures. With the recent acquisition of Aktiv Learning, we continue to expand our product offering, aiming to be the premier platform for professor-student interaction both in and out of the classroom.

We are seeking an iOS Developer to join our Mobile team. In this role, you will be instrumental in building, improving, and maintaining all aspects of our iOS application. You will develop features, write tests, and participate in significant decision-making processes for the iOS app, with your work impacting millions of students. We offer the opportunity for a high degree of impact and the chance to push the boundaries of remote education.

Responsibilities

As a key member of our growing development team, you will:

• Innovate: Work within a dynamic, cross-functional scrum team, contributing ideas to design and planning discussions.
• Implement new features and core services for the Top Hat platform.
• Provide solutions to challenging new problems.
• Collaborate: Work closely with design, product, and architecture teams to bring beautiful, usable, and scalable features to life.
• Improve: Refactor, optimize, and enhance the Top Hat platform used by over a million students.
• Improve application performance and reliability.
• Implement new features for the Top Hat iOS app.
• Utilize a data-driven approach to understand user behavior and plan work.
• Work closely with Mobile Developers, Designers, Product Managers, and Full-stack teams to deliver beautiful, usable, and fast mobile features.
• Write unit tests and contribute to building maintainable code.
• Release bi-weekly updates to the App Store.
• Refactor and improve legacy code.
• Work primarily in Swift and occasionally in Objective-C.

Requirements

What you will bring to Top Hat:

• 1 to 3 years of experience in native iOS development using Swift.
• Good understanding of SOLID principles.
• Experience with architecture design patterns (e.g., MVVM & VIPER).
• Experience with Dependency Injection frameworks.
• Experience working with SwiftUI.
• Experience making REST API requests using an HTTP library.
• Experience writing unit tests (Knowledge of Quick/Nimble or Appium is a plus).
• Experience with Swift concurrency.
• Experience creating and/or maintaining CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Proficiency with Git.
• Ability to be trusted to work on medium-complexity features independently and as part of a team, ask questions when needed, and deliver quality, maintainable code.
• Ability to actively learn and stay up-to-date with recent OS releases and features.

Why team members love working at Top Hat

• A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work.
• A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other.
• Flexible, remote-first work environment.
• Professional learning and development opportunities for all role levels.
• An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ.
• Competitive health benefits that start on day one.
• A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement, and connection.
• Our winning strategy and market potential.
• Innovative PTO policy with ample time and space for self-care.
• Passionate customers who believe in us and what we do.
• A chance to work with new technologies like generative AI and see their customer impact.