iOS Mobile Engineer - iOS Objective-C

Job Description

About Gilt

Gilt, www.gilt.com, is an innovative online shopping destination offering its members special access to the most inspiring merchandise and experiences all at insider prices. Gilt opens a window every day to the exceptional as it continually searches the world for the most coveted brands and products, including fashion and accessories for women, men, and children; home decor; and unique activities in select cities and destinations.

HBC Digital is a new division at Hudson’s Bay Company incorporating Gilt’s Technology Division. HBC Digital is responsible for driving the digital retail/ecommerce and digital customer experience across the HBC enterprise including all HBC retail banners (Gilt, Saks, Lord & Taylor, Saks off 5th, Hudson’s Bay Company). HBC Digital will position our retail banners as leaders in the digital arena now and drive innovation for the future.

On February 1st this year, Hudson's Bay Company acquired Gilt Groupe Holdings, Inc. ("Gilt").

About Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company is one of the fastest-growing department store retailers in the world, based on its successful formula of driving the performance of high quality stores and their all-channel offerings, unlocking the value of real estate holdings and growing through acquisitions. Founded in 1670, HBC is the oldest company in North America. HBC's portfolio today includes nine banners, in formats ranging from luxury to better department stores to off price, with more than 460 stores and 65,000 employees around the world.

In North America, HBC's leading banners include Hudson's Bay, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks OFF 5TH, along with Find @ Lord & Taylor and Home Outfitters. In Europe, its banners include GALERIA Kaufhof, the largest department store group in Germany, Belgium's only department store group Galeria INNO, as well as Sportarena.

As part of this new division, HBC Digital is modernizing its systems top to bottom for saks.com, saksoff5th.com, thebay.com and lordandtaylor.com. This is an exciting opportunity to join a talented technical team and gain cutting edge experience for recognizable brands.

The Opportunity

As an iOS engineer, you'll be deeply involved in all aspects of getting the product to market, from collaborating with our UX, product, and other teams on software design decisions, to digging deep into actual user behaviors and scaling our mobile products to reach millions of users. Your development work will impact all of the HBC experience, but will particularly drive new and innovative features to HBC’s iOS experience. You'll also have many opportunities to share your experiences and passion for technologies with others both internally and externally. You'll be encouraged to take risks, from developing your own grassroots projects to submitting proposals to prestigious tech conferences.

Our Culture

We’re very passionate about preserving our culture of trust and autonomy. Anyone on our team can give a presentation, develop an open source project, attend or speak at a conference, spend funds in the team budget, organize a meetup, or invite someone interesting over to our office for coffee and a chat. We embrace our creativity and are open to embracing yours.

During the interview process we hope to learn something from you. What’s your potential? What can you bring that no one else can? What open source projects can you share with us?

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Qualifications

Technical Requirements

Expertise in developing fully featured native mobile applications for iOS

Objective-C, for our native iOS apps

Swift or functional programming is a plus (we’re now building our iOS apps in Swift)

Good understanding of web services, networking and standards (HTTP, RESTful, JSON, XML)

A portfolio or examples of apps you have published to the app store

Solid software engineering skills; being comfortable with software design, coding, algorithms and data structures

Source code management (Git, Gerrit)

Continuous integration (Jenkins) and delivery