Hire iOS Developers
ScienceSoft offers services of top iOS developers, who quickly deliver clean code that runs on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple TVs, and Apple Watches. With our iOS professionals augmenting your team, you achieve up to 2x development pace, while our self-managed team’s agile approach will reduce the costs of your iOS project by 20-50%.
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ScienceSoft designed and developed a native iOS app that offers a quantitative assessment of users’ physical fitness. I was impressed with the excellent level of responsibility, communication skills and mobile competencies of both the management team and app developers. All the tasks were completed accurately, promptly and efficiently.
Alexander Riftine, CEO
SKILLS THAT DRIVE OUR IOS DEVELOPMENT
Programming languages
Frameworks and toolsets
Xcode
Native iOS SDK
Core Data
Core Animation
Core Location
Core Bluetooth
Core Text
Core Image
AVFoundation
Cocoa Touch
UIKit
MapKit
PromiseKit
Combine
Mockingbird
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
Swinject
Package managers: CocoaPods, Carthage, Swift Package Manager
Libraries
QA tools
Build tools
Application monitoring
Architecture types
MVC
MVP
MVVM
VIPER
Databases
APIs and integrations
API
Integrations
AR and Machine Learning
Learn more about our approach to the development process – agile development steps, DevOps practices, modular architecture design, and more.
ScienceSoft’s Six-step Hiring Process
Thanks to its comprehensive 6-step hiring procedure, ScienceSoft welcomes only the most fitting and extremely productive engineers on board.
- Careful CV scanning.
- HR specialist's interview.
- Test task 1 (soft skills).
- PM's/Team Lead's interview.
- Test task 2 (hard skills).
- CTO's interview.
The competition for ScienceSoft iOS developer roles is always high (50+ applicants per position) and we always take our time to hire only the most fitting candidates. This way, we guarantee that our developers will deliver the highest level of services.
Simon, Senior iOS Developer
Experience in React Native: 8 years
Summary
Skilled in developing iOS applications with VoIP functionality and complex integrations.
Major projects
- Development of an iOS mobile banking app with 1 million users. Led a team of 8 developers.
Technologies: Swift, Xcode, MVVM, Jira, GitLab, JSON, REST API.
- Development of an encrypted VoIP/chat messenger for iOS. Led a team of 5 developers.
Technologies: Objective-C, Swift, UIKit, SQLite, VoIP, WebSockets, Atlassian JIRA, Jenkins CI, Artifactory.
- Development of a healthcare iOS app and its integration with a portable medical device.
Technologies: Objective-C, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Git.
Hard skills
- Solid understanding of the mobile app development life cycle.
- Development of scalable, testable, documented iOS applications.
- Experienced use of Xcode and Git.
- Implementation of custom controls.
- Experience in developing large applications.
- Ability to quickly understand existing codebases.
- App architecture design.
- Code review and code refactoring.
- CI/CD setup, build publication to App Store.
- Creation of Behavior Driven Development tests.
- Unit testing.
Soft skills
- Quickly adapts to new project processes, tools, and requirements (<3 days).
- Willing to lead and mentor other team members.
- Clearly and openly communicates ideas.
- Enthusiastically contributes to discussions on app architecture design and integrations.
- Eagerly addresses challenges and tackles non-trivial tasks.
- Understands the importance of business needs when searching for technical solutions.
- Deep background in mathematics, data structures, and cryptography.
- Organized, strongly motivated.
Development methodologies and practices
- Agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, XP.
- Iterative.
- Waterfall.
- DevOps.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Code best practices, standards, and guidelines
- Adherence to official Swift and Objective-C coding guidelines.
- In-code comments and descriptive names for all variables.
- Documented dependencies and general code functionality explanations.
- Code divided into short and focused units.
- Use of frameworks’ APIs, third-party libraries, version control tools.
- Ensured code portability.
Unit testing
- Unit tests are created as part of software functional specifications.
- Tests verify code behavior in response to the input of standard, boundary, and incorrect values.
- Unit tests are rerun after each significant code change to guarantee proper performance.
Code review practices
- Ad hoc review
- Peer review
- Code walkthrough
- Code inspection
Code quality metrics
- Maintainability index (MI)
- Cyclomatic Complexity (CC)
Our code example
Apps Our iOS Developers Build
- All types of enterprise and consumer apps.
- All types of native and cross-platform apps.
- Apps for all versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch).
Our Hallmark iOS Projects
Development of a Mobile App for a Global Leader in Image Processing
High-end iPhone camera app with sophisticated remote retouching services.
Technologies and tools: Core Data, Core Image, AVFoundation, Calabash.
Development of Mobile Video Streaming Apps for a TV Industry Leader
IPTV iOS app with VOD/SVOD functionality.
Technologies and tools: Xcode, JavaScript.
Team Augmentation for Marketplace Development
An iOS client app of an online multi-vendor marketplace. Since March 2020, cooperation ongoing.
Technologies and tools: Iterative methodology; Swift, UIKit.
Development of an Award-winning Mobile Banking App
Mobile banking app for iOS with AI-powered chatbot and AR geolocation.
Technologies and tools: Objective-C, Xcode 6, UIKit, MapKit.
Development of a Communication Planning Mobile App for iOS
Advanced marketing analytics and planning software for iPads.
Technologies and tools: macOS X 10.7, iPhone 5.0 SDK, Xcode 4.2, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch.
How to Hire iOS Developers from ScienceSoft
Smart resource allocation
A pool of experienced iOS developers allows us to provide the best candidates or assemble an outstanding self-managed team in 2 days -1 week. ScienceSoft guarantees fast team scale up/down and – in case of rare emergencies – risk-free staff replacement.
KPI-controlled progress and performance
ScienceSoft uses well-established KPI systems (team velocity, deployment frequency, etc.) to monitor the performance and productivity of its iOS developers. We share our metrics and reporting tools with customers to ensure 100% transparency of cooperation.
Employee motivation and growth
We provide our iOS developers with safe and comfortable working conditions, offer them various training opportunities for professional growth, and financially encourage Apple Developer Program certification.
iOS team augmentation
Rely on the experience of ScienceSoft’s iOS developer(s) for hire to overcome skill deficiency or staff gaps on your project.
Dedicated iOS team
Have a team of skilled talents managed by ScienceSoft’s Team Lead/PM to work on your iOS project or its part.