UI Engineer IV

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

We are looking for experienced front-end UI Engineers for mobile iOS platform. You will help us launch new, state-of-the-art wearable devices and platforms, including augmented reality, fitness coaching, and other comprehensive wearable technologies. As Senior UX/UI Mobile Developer you will work directly with our product, design and test teams to develop a platform for creating the most innovative wearable products. You will be working with enthusiastic and experienced peers in an environment that facilitates delivering industry-leading solutions with both creative-edge and high quality. 

What You Will Be Doing 

• Use Swift to developing native iOS applications with optimal performance and battery usage 
• Tying the application to the back-end services provided by Intel's new wearable platform 
• Contributing to platform UI/UX specifications 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. 
• Validating your code for robustness, including testing edge cases, usability, and general - reliability. 
• Collaborating with remote global teams, including device, cloud, test, etc. to innovate new technologies with maximum development efficiency.

• Strong iOS applications development skills, fluency in Swift (you can program now!) 
• Extensive experience working with iOS UI design frameworks, including NS framework, UI Kit 
• Low-level knowledge of iOS functioning including background execution 
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQLite/Core Data 
• Experience developing large-scale native mobile apps on Apple iOS 
• Experience optimizing for performance, compact code and low battery usage 
• Strong knowledge of Apple ecosystem and platform specific details 
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle 
• Essential Object Oriented analysis and design skills, including concurrency, multi-threading, defensive programming 
• Experience publishing at least one iPhone and/or iPad application on the App Store (you know what it takes) 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, or related major, or equivalent experience 

Additional Preferred Qualifications 

• You have a Github account showcasing your creative skills and past projects. 
• Strong portfolio with examples of well thought design for mobile applications 

Nice to have — ASPIRATIONAL SKILLS 

• Experience with Bluetooth LE protocol 
• Knowledge of Android platform and Android SDK 
• Ability to understand and parse XML, JSON and serialized data 
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and Cloud Services 
• Master’s Degree or another advanced degree is preferred