Overview

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Role: iOS Engineer | Department: Technology | Reporting To: Engineering Manager | Contract Location: UK | Working Style: Fully flexible remote working model | Hours of Work: Mon - Fri, 9:00 - 17:30 | Travel Requirements: 1-3 per year

About Jaja

Our Mission: Empowering our customers to buy, borrow, and build—driven by technology, fuelled by data, and built for the future.

Our Company Values: Care Deeply, Adapt & Thrive, Challenge Everything, Go for It! Own It, Make It Simple.

Jaja is an innovative UK-based consumer finance business, initially launching a digital credit card in 2018, with a pipeline of consumer finance solutions in development. With backing from major private equity funds, Jaja has grown rapidly, recently acquiring a £530m credit card portfolio from the Bank of Ireland and launching a significant partnership with Asda in the UK.

We are on a mission to redefine the consumer finance experience and liberate customers from unnecessary complexity, wasted time, and frustration. Or as we say it, Make It Simple. We aim to delight our customers by making their experience simpler, more enjoyable, and more intelligent, treating them fairly and giving them greater control over their finances.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing business on a mission to transform the consumer finance industry forever. Join our Technology team, working in agile squads with passionate colleagues, to deliver top-tier technical solutions for our iOS mobile app in a fast-paced environment.

About The Role

As an iOS Engineer, you will deliver a substantial backlog of varied and exciting changes to our mobile-first consumer finance platform. You will work in agile squads to provide high-quality technical solutions, contributing to a business revolutionising the consumer finance industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with product owners and designers to refine, estimate and prioritise Jira tickets
• Attend and contribute to agile ceremonies and platform discussions
• Collaborate with other iOS engineers through the code peer review process
• Deliver code that is easy to understand, maintain and test
• Collaborate closely with engineers from other platforms

About You

We’re seeking passionate individuals who align with our values—caring deeply about customer experience, adapting to challenges, and owning their work to deliver simple, high-quality solutions. The successful candidate must reside in Europe and have the legal right to work in the jurisdiction they live in and meet the following criteria:

Required Skills & Experience

• Enthusiasm to learn and deliver high-quality software.
• Proactive mindset to shape architecture and drive projects with new technologies and best practices.
• Experience in agile teams with practices like pairing and code reviews.
• Proven experience developing consumer-facing iOS apps using UIKit-based Swift and SwiftUI.
• Understanding of design patterns, SOLID, and clean code principles.
• Ability to write unit tests with strong knowledge of mocking dependencies.
• Experience with dependency managers like Cocoapods and SPM.
• Familiarity with fastlane for automation.
• Familiarity with crash report analysis, bug fixing, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Git, and Bitrise.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with MVVM architecture, Combine, and XCUI.
• Knowledge of delivering accessibility features for users.
• Experience managing apps in the Apple Developer Console and App Store Connect.
• Familiarity with design tools like Sketch or Figma.
• Experience with other front-end platforms such as Android or Web (Angular).

What’s in It for You?

• Competitive salary based on industry benchmarking.
• Fully flexible remote working model.
• Pension Salary Exchange scheme to enhance pension contributions.
• Participation in our annual bonus scheme.
• 25 days annual leave (FTE) plus UK bank holidays (increasing by 1 day per full calendar year worked, up to 30 days).
• An additional day off for your birthday each year.
• Private medical cover through Vitality (UK only).
• 4x life assurance cover.
• Family-friendly policies with enhanced support.
• Free access to our confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to company perks, competitions, and recognition schemes.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology