UI Engineer Job at Procom Consultants Group in Santa Clara

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:

1. Application Development
2. Project Management
3. Quality Assurance
4. Business/Systems Analysis
5. Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
6. Infrastructure & Network Services
7. Risk Management & Compliance
8. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
9. Security & Privacy

Specialties include:

1. Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
2. Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
3. ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
4. Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

Job Description

On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a UI Engineer for a contract opportunity in Santa Clara, CA.

UI Engineer Job Details

Seeking experienced front-end UI Engineers for mobile iOS platform to help 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.

Responsibilities include:

1. Use Swift to develop native iOS applications with optimal performance and battery usage.
2. Tie the application to the back-end services provided by Intel's new wearable platform.
3. Contribute to platform UI/UX specifications.
4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
5. Validate your code for robustness, including testing edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
6. Collaborate with remote global teams, including device, cloud, test, etc. to innovate new technologies with maximum development efficiency.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Strong iOS applications development skills, fluency in Swift.
2. Extensive experience working with iOS UI design frameworks, including NS framework, UI Kit.
3. Low-level knowledge of iOS functioning including background execution.
4. Working knowledge of relational databases and SQLite/Core Data.
5. Experience optimizing for performance, compact code and low battery usage.
6. Strong knowledge of Apple ecosystem and platform specific details.
7. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
8. Essential Object Oriented analysis and design skills, including concurrency, multi-threading, defensive programming.
9. Experience publishing at least one iPhone and/or iPad application on the App Store.
10. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Architecture, or related major, or equivalent experience.

UI Engineer Nice to Have Skills:

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

We would also like to see a GitHub account showcasing your creative skills and past projects and a strong portfolio with examples of well thought design for mobile applications.

Contract duration: 18 Months
Start date: ASAP

Please note that we are not able to work with candidates on H1B Visas or candidates represented by third parties.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.