About Kinedu
Kinedu is on a mission to unleash early childhood development at scale by fostering quality learning experiences at home and at school and everywhere in between.
Parents are busy and struggle to find and apply early childhood principles. Educators in early childhood, while being a fundamental resource for parents all over the world, are consistently in the lowest-paid professions across geographies. All in all, adults in every setting are resource and time-constrained and are expected to provide high-quality care without much support.
Kinedu seeks to change that by providing parents with an app that presents simple and engaging personalized video-based developmental activities for 0 to 6-year-old children. The Kinedu Skills® model allows families to understand how children are developing, with a catalog of more than 2,000 video-based activities for child development, master classes, articles and on-demand and live classes on parenting, sleep, feeding, play and more! Focused on reducing uncertainty for parents during the first few years, all available in three languages - English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Kinedu reaches over 500,000 users monthly and has millions of emails in its database, its main markets being the United States, Brazil, and Latin America. Our solution ensures that children's learning has a timely start, and is guided by holistic, science-based guidelines.
We have an exciting pipeline of additional products and are at an exciting inflection point of growth. Are you ready to help us build a better world through education?
What You’ll Do
We are looking for an experienced iOS developer to be an important contributor in our iOS team playing a direct role in development, maintenance and creating the next steps of applications aimed at a range of iOS devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. Your primary focus will be development of iOS applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.
Your Responsibilities
- Design and Development: Develop, test, and maintain robust iOS applications that deliver a seamless user experience across different devices.
- Feature Implementation: Architect and implement new features, ensuring they align with the product’s vision and user needs.
- Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable Swift code following best practices and coding standards.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and backend developers, to deliver high-quality features on time.
- Performance Optimization: Monitor and improve application performance, ensuring apps run smoothly and efficiently on all supported devices.
- Testing and Debugging: Conduct code reviews, write unit tests, and debug issues to ensure high-quality code.
- Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with the latest iOS developments and continuously seek to improve your skills and the team’s development process.
What You'll Bring
Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in Swift and experience with SwiftUI for building modern, declarative UIs.
- Strong understanding of iOS frameworks such as UIKit, Core Data, and Combine.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming using async/await and Combine.
- Experience working with RESTful APIs and JSON.
- Knowledge of iOS design principles and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines.
- Experience with design patterns and architectures like MVVM, VIPER, or Clean Architecture.
- Familiarity with tools like Xcode, Git, and like Figma/Sketch
- Understanding of Core Data or Realm for local data persistence.
- Basic knowledge of implementing in-app purchases (IAP) and subscription models using Apple’s payment services.
- Experience with Firebase services such as Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config, and Cloud Messaging.
- Desirable Experience:
- Knowledge with Live Activities and understanding how to create engaging real-time updates on iOS devices.
- Familiarity with push notifications and cloud messaging APIs.
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks like XCTest and UI testing.
- Familiarity with integrating and managing mobile ad networks (e.g., Google AdMob, Apple Search Ads) within iOS applications.
- Soft Skills:
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to tackle complex challenges and find efficient solutions.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaboration: A team player who thrives in a collaborative environment and is eager to share knowledge and support peers.
- Adaptability: Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactivity: Self-motivated and able to work independently, with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
What You’ll Get
- You’ll join an enterprise that is part of: Endeavor, 500 startups, awarded by App Store and Google Play team
- An startup with solid technological and scientific background, recognized by Harvard Stanford universities
- Opportunity to join a team of talented, dynamic, and results driven professionals
- A chance to work at a startup focused on improving early childhood development at scale with 8M+ users in more than 200 countries and territories
- Competitive compensation package. We offer great benefits including: Health, dental and life insurance
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, you can be anywhere in the globe if you are available to overlap up to 5 hours in the GMT-5 timezone!
