Freelance Senior Mobile Engineer (IOS)
Mondia Group · Remote
We are looking for an experienced Senior iOS Developer to build high-quality, scalable, and secure iOS applications. You will design application architecture, deliver new features, improve performance, and mentor engineers while working closely with product, design, backend, and Android teams.
The ideal candidate has deep expertise in native iOS development and modern Swift-based architecture, and thrives in a fast-paced, product-focused environment with a strong sense of ownership.
About MoneyMore & Mondia:
MoneyMore is the consumer fintech app of Mondia Group. It turns everyday bank transaction messages into a clear, real-time picture of a person's finances, helping users in Egypt spend smarter, budget better, and save more — in both Arabic and English. We are scaling from an early, product-led launch toward a nationwide personal-finance companion, and evolving into a broader fintech and consumer-intelligence platform.
Mondia Group is a digital services and marketplace provider that integrates digital products and experiences into telecom operators, banks, and other large distribution channels. MoneyMore is one of Mondia's key growth bets, built by a small, senior, fast-moving product team.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality native iOS applications.
- Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions.
- Write clean, testable, and reusable code that follows engineering best practices.
- Optimize performance, memory usage, launch time, and battery consumption.
- Ensure stability through unit testing, UI testing, and code reviews.
- Integrate RESTful APIs and collaborate with backend teams on API design.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and Android teams.
- Mentor junior developers and help establish engineering standards.
- Participate in Agile processes and continuous delivery practices.
Requirements
Experience
- 5+ years of professional iOS development experience
- Proven track record of shipping and maintaining apps at scale on the App Store
- Experience owning features from design through production release
Languages:
- Swift (strong proficiency)
- Objective-C (working knowledge)
- Familiarity with Kotlin and Android development concepts
iOS Platform
- iOS SDK and core Apple frameworks
- App and scene lifecycle, view controller lifecycle
- Background tasks, push and local notifications
- App Extensions (widgets, share extensions)
Modern iOS Development
- SwiftUI and UIKit
- Swift Concurrency (async/await, actors, structured concurrency)
- Combine and the Observation framework
- GCD and OperationQueue
- Navigation patterns (NavigationStack, Coordinators)
- Dependency injection
- Swift Package Manager
Architecture and System Design
- MVVM, MVI, or The Composable Architecture (TCA)
- Clean Architecture and modular architecture
- SOLID principles and separation of concerns
- Designing scalable mobile architectures and evaluating trade-offs
Networking
- REST APIs, URLSession, and Codable
- Authentication flows
- Error handling and network caching
Performance
- UI rendering performance and main thread hang prevention
- Memory management (ARC, retain cycles, leak detection)
- Launch time and battery optimization
- Profiling and debugging with Instruments
Testing
- Unit testing with XCTest and Swift Testing
- UI testing with XCUITest
- Snapshot and integration testing
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) and mocking
Development Practices
- Git, pull request workflows, and code reviews
- CI-friendly development
- App Store submission and release management
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
Soft Skills
- Strong ownership and execution-focused mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Nice to Have
- Native Android experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Experience building FinTech or financial applications
- Offline-first application experience
- Local persistence with Core Data, SwiftData, or SQLite/GRDB
- CI/CD pipelines (Xcode Cloud, Fastlane, GitHub Actions, Bitrise)
- Analytics platforms (Firebase Analytics, Mixpanel, CleverTap)
- A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and feature flags
- Mobile security best practices, including Keychain, Data Protection, SSL pinning, biometric authentication (Face ID / Touch ID), secure handling of sensitive data, and jailbreak detection
Benefits
- Social insurance
- Health insurance for employee and family
- The company will contribute up to EUR 25 per month towards staff perks
- Benefit from our company based bonus scheme, in line with company policy.
- EUR equivalent salaries paid in EGP